Enemy Quotes - Page 9

• The enemy wants to steal our peace and keep us stirred up, anxious, fearful, upset, and always in a stance of waiting for something terrible to happen at any minute.

  Stormie Omartian

  Waiting, Upset, Want

  Stormie Omartian (2013). “Prayer Warrior”, p.100, Harvest House Publishers

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• Thirty-nine years of my life had passed before I understood that clouds were not my enemy; that they were beautiful, and that I needed them. I suppose this, for me, marked the beginning of wisdom. Life is short.

  Iimani David

  Beautiful, Life Is Short, Clouds

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• Fear is the enemy of curiosity.

  Warren Berger

  Curiosity

  Warren Berger (2014). “A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas”, p.58, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.

  Alexander the Great

  Men, Wish

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• Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Opinion, Form

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• To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.

  Lionel Blue

  Birthday, Wish, Teens

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• In order to know your enemy, you must become your enemy.

  Chris Bradford

  War, Order, Knows

  Chris Bradford (2010). “The Ring of Earth (Young Samurai, Book 4): The Ring of Earth”, p.62, Penguin UK

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• The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vanity, Judgment

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• Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.

  Norman Cousins

  Constant

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• The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Time

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.90

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• I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Wise, Men, Views

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• Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Life, Friendship, Wise

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book VIII". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1678-1679.

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• Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Men, Taoism

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• If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' This method works every time.

  Henry C. Link

  Inspirational, Funny, Relationship

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• They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time.

  Chesty Puller

  War, Military, Marine

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• For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.

  Plautus

  Men, Doe, Scandal

  Titus Maccius Plautus (1852). “The Comedies of Plautus”, p.277

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• Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Winning, Liberty

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• Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Philosophy, Ignorance

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• The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stupid, Men, People

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• Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Executioners, Charity Begins At Home

  Sir Thomas Browne (1869). “Religio Medici: Hydriotaphia : and the Letter to a Friend”, p.86

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• Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but let them feel at the same time the steadiness of your just resentment for there is a great difference between bearing malice, which is always ungenerous, and a resolute self-defense which is ever prudent and justifiable.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Time, Resentment, Feels

  "The Modern Chesterfield".

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• Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation', a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Struggle, Twilight

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961. The words in quotation marks are from the Bible, Romans 12:12.

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  Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

  Betty Friedan

  Real, Women, Memorable

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• When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

  William Blake

  Mean, Artist, Trying

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