Worst Enemy Quotes

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  Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Friendship, Change

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.50, Beacon Press

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• Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Reality, Men, Enemy Within

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1428, Barbour Publishing

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• We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring

  "Loving Your Enemies" by Martin Luther King, Jr., Christmas, 1957.

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• Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Life, Buddhist

  Gautama Buddha (2016). “Zen Dogs”, p.126, Mango Media Inc.

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• I was more of kind (who was better at) building businesses and selling them. That was a big thing for me. I was very good at that. I wasn't good as a boss. I was either your best friend or your worst enemy. I didn't balance the two very well. (So) I sold them.

  Drew Waters

  Two, Boss, Balance

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Upset, Causes, Enemy

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2005.

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• I am still bullied occasionally. However, none of my current bullies really exist. They’re all in my head. Be your own best friend instead of your worst enemy.

  Abiola Abrams

  Bully, Bullied, Currents

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• We seem to be our own worst enemies. We should require critical U.S. infrastructure to remain in U.S. hands.

  Duncan Hunter

  Hands, Should, Infrastructure

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• I can be your best friend or your worst enemy. You seem to prefer the latter.

  Jim Carrey

  Funny, Witty, Your Best Friend

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• The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.545, Anchor

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• But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Being Yourself, Lonely, Lying

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• Your worst enemy is your best teacher.

  Gautama Buddha

  Teacher, Enemy, Best Teacher

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  Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

  Frank Sinatra

  Love, Bible, Sarcastic

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• There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Forgiveness, Evil, Hatred

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2015). “The Radical King”, p.39, Beacon Press

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• The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.

  Alfred de Musset

  Doe, Faces, Your Best Friend

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• The old saying is: 'Time off is a wrestler's worst enemy.'

  Ric Flair

  Wrestler, Old Saying, Time Off

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• Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?

  Gustave Le Bon

  Giving, Trouble, Enemy

  Gustave Le Bon (1899). “The Psychology of Socialism”, p.52, Transaction Publishers

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• Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy!

  Tae Yun Kim

  Enemy, Worst

  Tae Yun Kim (1994). “The Silent Master: Awakening the Power Within”

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• Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Mindfulness, Helping

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• That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

  Fred Durst

  Inspirational, Friendship, Brain

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• Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy

  Bob Marley

  Your Best Friend, Reggae, Friend Enemy

  Bob Marley (1982*). “Bob Marley & Other Sounds' Lyrics”

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• Persons with a talent who never practice excellence are the worst enemies of themselves.

  Nelly Mazloum

  Dance, Practice, Excellence

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• Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Business, Innovation, Incrementalism

  "The Balance of Trade of Ideas" by Nicholas Negroponte, www.wired.com. April 1, 1995.

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• Always dress like you're going to see your worst enemy.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Fashion, I Hate You, Dresses

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• American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.

  Elena Kagan

  Lying, Unity, Radical

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