Worst Enemy Quotes - Page 4

• 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, Long, Doubt

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• I control my life and I have never let success run away with me - I've taken it and ran. And the only thing that could threaten my stability is me - I'm my only threat and my own worst enemy. Beyond that, I don't feel successful. I'm nowhere near where I plan to be as far as my goals.

  Chaka Khan

  Running, Taken, Successful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in order to sustain the ruling class, your masters. Like naïve children you put your trust in your political leaders. You make it possible for them to creep into your confidence, only to have them betray you to the first bidder. But even where there is no direct betrayal, the labour politicians make common cause with your enemies to keep you in leash, to prevent your direct action. The State is the pillar of capitalism, and it is ridiculous to expect any redress from it.

  Emma Goldman

  Crush, Children, Betrayal

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• Before making peace, war is necessary, and that war must be made with our self. Our worst enemy is our self: our faults, our weaknesses, our limitations. And our mind is such a traitor! What does it? It covers our faults even from our own eyes, and points out to us the reason for all our difficulties: others! So it constantly deludes us, keeping us unaware of the real enemy, and pushes us towards those others to fight them, showing them to us as our enemies.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Real, War, Eye

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• The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrants' worst enemies.

  Claire Wolfe

  Animal, Men, Thinking

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• I count myself really fortunate that I have some lifelong friends. The best thing about a friend is when you are being your own worst enemy a friend can help snap you out of it.

  Amy Grant

  Helping, Lifelong, Best Things

  FaceBook post by Amy Grant from Jul 08, 2013

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• Do the things you think you cannot do. Do all the good you can, by all the means available, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, all the times you can, for as long as ever you can. Our own feelings of helplessness are our own worst enemy.

  Mia Farrow

  Mean, Thinking, Long

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• In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in the world, the worst enemy, the worst peril, is indifference.

  Elie Wiesel

  Differences, Humanity, Suffering

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• Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.

  Rumi

  Ego, Nafs, Hiding

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• The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. It promises prosperity and sends adversity. It promises happiness and sends misery.... It is God's worst enemy and the devil's best friend.

  Billy Sunday

  Cheer, Liars, Adversity

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion and instinct cloud our strategic vision when there is no time for proper evaluation.

  Garry Kasparov

  Play, Clouds, Vision

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.30, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Politicians, bureaucrats, editors, new commentators, 'economists' teachers,' and other word artists who denounce private enterprise and praise socialism are their own worst enemies...these attackers are unwittingly destroying the sources of their own livelihood. They kill the geese that lay the golden eggs - and don't know it!

  Leonard Read

  Teacher, Artist, Editors

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• Actors are their own worst enemies. They quite often will get in their own way, and I have to be encouraged, endlessly, not to get in my own way.

  James Purefoy

  Actors, Way, Be Encouraged

  Source: collider.com

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• A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Games, Play, Enemy

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• Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Enemy, Mankind, Worst

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• Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle-it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?

  Ally Condie

  Break Up, Breakup, Memories

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• Americans have eliminated Iran's worst enemies, the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam [Hussein]. I occasionally threatened my Iranian counterpart in Kabul that one day I would send him a big bill for what we did. But, seriously, Iran is pursuing a dual strategy in Iraq. On the one hand, the Iranians, after decades of hostility, are now interested in good relations. On the other hand, they want to keep the country weak and dominate the region.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Country, Hands, Iran

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because they are frightened of public opinion. In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and that fact does not seem to me to have had the discussion it deserves.

  George Orwell

  Country, Editors, Intellectual

  George Orwell (2009). “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story”, p.206, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent to human needs, has brought about an inevitable and in many respects wholesome revulsion.

  Georgia Harkness

  Religion, Needs, Impossible

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• The women's movement. . . has proved women's own worst enemy.

  Susan Faludi

  Enemy, Movement, Worst

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• When I was younger and inexperienced, I was a very animated pitcher. I pitched with a lot of adrenaline. I was my own worst enemy when things weren't gong well.

  Randy Johnson

  Gongs, Adrenaline, Animated

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• This sport is just crazy. Your worst enemy in college is your teammate and friend when you get to the NBA. Who would have thought it?

  Gilbert Arenas

  Sports, Crazy, College

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• I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.

  Dean Koontz

  Life, Humanity, Fundamentals

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Seize the Night: A Novel”, p.35, Bantam

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• Your mind . . . can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it's your choice to make.

  Demi Lovato

  Choices, Mind, Your Best Friend

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• The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

  Max Eastman

  Men, Brain, Faces

  Max Eastman (1962). “Reflections on the failure of socialism”

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