Enemy Quotes - Page 17

• Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.

  Louis L'Amour

  Strength, Struggle, Men

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Lonesome Gods”, p.144, Bantam

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• The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Strong, Military, Successful

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• While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Taken, Order

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2013). “Foch - The Man Of Orleans”, p.367, Read Books Ltd

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• Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Mean, Air

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• CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he was observed to be deeply moved. "What!" said one of his disciples, "you weep at the death of an enemy?" "Ah, 'tis true," replied the great Stoic; "but you should see me smile at the death of a friend.".

  Ambrose Bierce

  Evil, Death Of A Friend, Affliction

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.31, University of Georgia Press

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• Time isn't the enemy. Fear of change is. Accept that nothing lasts forever and you'll start to appreciate the advantages of whatever age you are now.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Appreciate, Forever, Age

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• Better to have a known enemy than a forced ally.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Allies, Known

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• I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  War, Appreciate, Strategy

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• A man’s doubts and fears are his worst enemies. He can go ahead and do anything as long as he believed in himself.

  William Wrigley, Jr.

  Men, Worst Enemy, Long

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• Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

  Mel Brooks

  Inspirational, Taste, Comedy

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• If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Shame, Prove

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.79, Penguin

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• I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Revenge, Men, Expression

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• There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things..... Whenever his enemies have occasion to attack the innovator they do so with the passion of partisans, while the others defend him sluggishly so that the innovator and his party alike are vulnerable.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Leadership, Party, Passion

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• Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Friendship, Provoked

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.104, Shambhala Publications

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• A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Men, Careers, Wife

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• It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness of our convictions.

  Learned Hand

  Spiritual, War, Weakness

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• The biggest enemy is doubt. If you don’t believe in what you are doing, you aren’t going to make it.

  Philippe Kahn

  Believe, Doubt, Doing You

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• God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Devil, Common, Inertia

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.91, BookBaby

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• The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Track, Minutes, Careless

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• There is no greater mistake than to make light of an enemy By making light of an enemy many a kingdom has been lost.

  Laozi

  Mistake, Light, Kingdoms

  Laozi, Henri Borel, Kang-hu Kiang (1939). “Laotzu's Tao and wu-wei: A new translation by Bhikshu Wai-tao and Dwight Goddard. Interpretive essays by Henri Borel. Outline of Taoist philosophy and religion by Dr. Kiang Kang-hu”

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• Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.

  Tacitus

  Integrity, Opposites, Honor

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• Shun an angry man for a moment-your enemy forever.

  Publilius Syrus

  Men, Angry Man, Forever

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• There is no safety in regaining the favor of an enemy.

  Publilius Syrus

  Safety, Favors

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• It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies.

  Publilius Syrus

  Unhappy, Popularity

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• It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

  Jonathan Swift

  Strong, Believe, Army

  Jonathan Swift (1857). “The works of Dean Swift: comprising A tale of a tub, The battle of the books, with thoughts and essays on various subjects, together with The Dean's advice to a young lady on her marriage”, p.250

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