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Quotes About Enemy

Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace.
~ Bernard of Clairvoux
A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.
~ Sting
Anger is the real destroyer of our good human qualities; an enemy with a weapon cannot destroy these qualities, but anger can. Anger is our real enemy.
~ Dalai Lama
Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.
~ Tim Ferriss
To truly defeat an enemy, no sacrifice is too great.
~ Preston Morgan, Winter Nova
Fear is one of the Enemy's deadliest strategies.
~ Jan Karon
Are you reading your Bible?" Ah, well...I was." And then you quit." You got it." Then, you can expect to be weak on one of your flanks, and that's precisely where the Enemy will come after you with a vengeance.
~ Jan Karon
Want medelijden is de ergste vijand van de liefde.
~ Jan Wolkers
I looked right into the face of pure evil. And the worst part is, it wasn't the enemy.
~ Jana Deleon
We treat illness with resentment as though it is a total betrayal, and our bodies become an enemy. Old age is seen as something that happens to other people, and death is treated like rumour that may or may not be true.
~ Jane Hope
I name you Shriker. Shape-Shifter. Mighty Hunter. Your master has betrayed you. And through his betrayal man's best friend becomes his worst enemy.
~ Janet Lee Carey
And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.
~ Janet Napolitano
Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. Irish proverb
~ Janice Thompson
W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.
~ Jared Diamond
In reality, it's overwork, not underwork, that's the real enemy in a successful remote-working environment.
~ Jason Fried
But you must always remind yourself that a Jedi values wisdom and enlightenment over all else. The great truths we seek are often difficult to find, and sometimes it is easier to seek out an enemy to do battle with Ã¢â'¬Â¦ especially when we hunger to avenge those who have fallen. This is one of the ways even good people can fall to the dark side.
~ Drew Karpyshyn
Sometimes we must be very aggressive in our dealings with the enemy. Gordon Lindsay used to say every Christian should pray at least one violent prayer every day.
~ Dutch Sheets
We may prefer a more primitive analysis: that when you defeat an enemy you are required to eat his heart. In this way is your victory recorded with The Gods. In this way too do The Gods ensure the continuation of their amusement: you consume the heart of your enemy so that it can no longer be said of him that he exists -- except as he exists in you.
~ E.L. Doctorow
War is a mind-set, and all action that comes out of such a mind-set will either strengthen the enemy, the perceived evil, or, if the war is won, will create a new enemy, a new evil equal to and often worse than the one that was defeated.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Somebody becomes an enemy if you personalize the unconsciousness that is the ego. Non-reaction is not weakness but strength. Another word for non-reaction is forgiveness. To forgive is to overlook, or rather to look through. You look through the ego to the sanity that is in every human being as his or her essence.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The ego's greatest enemy is the present moment, which is to say, life itself
~ Eckhart Tolle
occur. I have noticed with concern, for example, that not only certain politicians, but also some commentators in respectable publications are increasingly portraying Russia and/or China as the "enemy." Thoughts can spread like a virus, and if thoughts proliferate in the collective psyche, they distort our perceptions and cause us to act as if they were true, and so subsequently they manifest as our reality.
~ Eckhart Tolle
he is the most dangerous foe to human liberty that has ever set foot on American soil."16
~ Edmund Morris
In the military, when the enemy turned on the enemy, they called it "red on red." Soldiers didn't have to pretend to be sad about it.
~ Edward Conlon