Quotes About Foe

More fights are lost by underestimating your opponent than by any other way.

We do not always recognize the thing that comes to destroy us.

Beware the ignorant, Lorenzo. They're the most dangerous enemy of all, because they are everywhere.

If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position.

True strength lay not in conquering one's enemies but in conquering the foe that lay within.

To know our enemy we must understand their trajectory. If I can know their history I can predict their future.

Persecution is an enemy the Church has met and mastered many times. Indifference could prove to be a far more dangerous foe.

Never underestimate the enemy, boys. If you don't figure him to have as much sense as you've got you'll have trouble.

and though a sworn foe to human bloodshed, yet had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns upon tuns of leviathan gore.

But not only is the sea such a foe to man who is an alien to it, but it is also fiend to it's own offspring.

Sharing the same blood with England, and yet her proved foe in two wars—not wholly inclined at bottom to forget an old grudge—intrepid, unprincipled, reckless, predatory, with boundless ambition, civilized in externals but a savage at heart, America is, or may yet be, the Paul Jones of nations. Regarded in this indicatory

the enemy is whoever wants to get you killed, whichever side they're on.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

The mind can be our best friend and advocate in getting what we want in life, or it can pull the brakes on and be a nasty little foe – the choice is yours – choose your attitude.

He wants worth who dares not praise a foe.

Just so. And wonder, my friend, is the intellect's most feared foe. Its path is love, and love is the language of humility. The rational mind would stand over it with a bloodstained sword, and in the empty bleakness of its eyes you will see its triumph.

A civilization at war chooses only the most obvious enemy, and often also the one perceived, at first, to be the most easily defeatable. But that enemy is not the true enemy, nor is it the gravest threat to that civilization. Thus, a civilization at war often chooses the wrong enemy.

Among his people, it was a long known truth, perhaps the only truth, that Nature fought but one eternal war. One foe. That, further, to understand this was to understand the world. Every world. Nature has but one enemy. And that is imbalance.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

Before we can master an enemy, we must know its name, its habits, and its place of abode.

The last of our enemies is laid low.

Death is the one foe that everyone faces, the one foe that never loses.

Our combat with the devil always should be with the consciousness that we have authority always should be with the consciousness that we have authority over him because he is a defeated foe – the Lord Jesus Christ defeated him for us.

One drop of poison will kill her strongest foe...and the last remnant of goodness that burns in her heart. For she had forgotten a simple truth. Character meant more than beauty, always.