Quotes About Foe

You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or foe depends on how you use it

This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.

Sometimes strength rested not in resistance, but in the release of arms against a foe of one's own creation.

Lessers were fewer and farther between now than ever, and there had been sightings, by others in the Brotherhood, of a very different kind of foe.

If great teams don't have an "enemy," they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, "you can't have a war without one."

Never diagnosed the enemy before.

Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

Let every nation know," declared Kennedy in his inaugural address, "that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

T]his is an enemy for life, as well as an enemy of life.

The will to command and to dominate is one thing, but the will to obey and be prostrate is a deadly foe as well.

It was, after all, the natural order of things. Animals killed weaker animals. Humans killed animals. I killed humans. Every species had their foe. I shuddered to think what monster was powerful enough to hunt me.

They said it was better to know your enemy, but how did it help to know that your enemy's one weakness was your weakness too

We are taught early here to see Nature as a foe to be subdued. But I came, by stages, to worship it. You could say that for me, this island and her bounties became the first of my false gods, the original sin that begot so much idolatry.

Outrage is also an exceptional weapon that can pierce the armor of nearly any foe. It's like a bow with three magically tipped arrows: shame, guilt, and fear.

In war and in peace, a good enemy can be more valuable than a good ally.

Whatever you focus on overwhelms you. Whether that be past or present, friend or foe, love or hate, problem or GOD. Let GOD be your choice of overwhelm.

A wise man to accomplish his end may even carry his foe on his shoulder.

Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.

Wise man also fears a weak enemy.

Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger.

Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.