Enemy Quotes

"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"

Abraham Lincoln

"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them."

Orson Scott Card

"If you claim to be a real friend then be real in your soul. If you claim to be fake then be an enemy instead."

Santosh Kalwar

"Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship."

Norman Maclean

"Love your wife, your servant and your enemy equally, and file her credit card bills under the ‘enemy’ folder."

Bauvard

"If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head."

Anonymous

"Both friend and enemy reside within us. One lives by the rule of compassion, the other by the rule of hard knocks. Though potential influence of either extreme is inevitable, our actions bear witness to the one we embrace."

T.F. Hodge

"The ultimate weapon is Lady Gaga’s music. Why kill the enemy when you can play her music and they’ll want to kill themselves?"

Jarod Kintz

"If you truly want to know a person, talk to their enemies."

Jamie Leanne Gaines

"Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you'll feel is regret."

Michael Bassey Johnson

"Never hate an enemy; love them and transform them into a friend."

Debasish Mridha

"The most powerful force that can transform an enemy into a friend is simple kindness."

Debasish Mridha

"We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage."

Michael Bassey Johnson

"Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King's Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy." "How odd. I think quite the same of you."

George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

"Your mind can be your enemy or friend. If you always follow your heart, your mind will feel neglected. If you follow only your mind, your heart will never forgive you. Never ignore your conscience, yet always be conscious of reason. Make your heart and mind friends and you will have peace of mind throughout life's seasons."

Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

"There's a big difference on being wise and being crafty. The former is the attribute of God, and the latter is that of Satan."

Michael Bassey Johnson

"When two wise men are blaming one another,then time has come for you to be the third one."

Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

"Anyone who wants to prevent you from making other people happy is an enemy. If you are stopping yourself from making others happy, you are your own enemy."

Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

"Haters can never rejoice especially when their enemy wins. The moment you can’t be happy when someone wins, watch yourself. That habit is not good for you."

Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

"An enemy is like a man's most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground."

David Gemmell, Echoes of the Great Song

"A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways."

John le Carré, Our Game

"Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"As we all know, as if forever exploiting or attempting to exploit each other were not enough, a group of sane human beings who have just reached the end of a war against a common enemy of theirs will sooner or later start or continue killing and/or fighting against each other."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

"We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus."

Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

"In a fight, your doubt is a target of enemy's attack."

Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

"Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love. Be his enmity political or religious, he has nothing to expect from a follower of Jesus but unqualified love. In such love there is not inner discord between the private person and official capacity. In both we are disciples of Christ, or we are not Christians at all."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

"Do not come into agreement with fear. Activate your faith, live in victory, speak over your life and expect great things to come your way."

Germany Kent

"If you allow your enemy to steal your faith, he can destroy your life and ultimately kill your relationship with God."

Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

"I cannot believe the path to victory lies in staining our souls so black we become indistinguishable from those we fight."

Anthony Ryan, Queen of Fire

"There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally."

Jeffrey Fry

"Sometimes the enemy walks beside you, holds your hand and kisses your pretty lips."

Melody Lee

"After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy."

Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

"There's a moment in fighting when strength of muscle ain't everything because enemy has already given you enough energy to gain the victory."

Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

"Fear is not your enemy. It is a powerful source of energy that can be harnessed and used for your benefit."

Russ Harris, The Confidence Gap

"I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears."

Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

"The most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears."

Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

"Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it."

Tim Fargo

"Friendship's enemy is betrayal."

Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

"The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness."

Frank Delaney, The Matchmaker of Kenmare

"Believe that when I am at once a man's friend I am always so-nor is it so very hard to bring me to it. And though a man may enjoy himself in being my enemy, he cannot make me HIS for longer than I wish. Good afternoon." Lowell had a way of leaving a conversation with the other person needing more from him."

Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club

"Considering the notion that the spiritual battlefield is infinitely greater than the physical, perhaps God is more willing to bless with a sort of divine ecstasy those who see the devil as the enemy rather than those who see other people as the enemies."

Criss Jami, Killosophy

"The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety."

Steven Magee

"As soon as you successful, people will get jealous and become your enemy"

Sunday Adelaja

"Hatred is the enemy, Hadassah. Not the people."

Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind

"To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy."

Sun Tzu

"Look at me!’ I screeched. ‘Look at me, Amadeus von Linden, you sadistic hypocrite, and watch this time! You’re not questioning me now, this isn’t your work, I’m not an enemy agent spewing wireless code! I’m just a minging Scots slag screaming insults at your daughter! So enjoy yourself and watch! Think of Isolde! Think of Isolde and watch!"

Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

"Be where your enemy is not."

Sun Tzu

"In the art of war, if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the approaching battles. But if you know only yourself and not the enemy, for every victory, there will also be defeat."

Emily Thorne

"Feeling of hatred unto your enemy, drains your energy as enemy wanted."

Toba Beta

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