Enemy
Quotes - You are your own worst enemy
“Do
I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
―
Abraham Lincoln
“The
last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“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, Ender's Game
“Give
me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by
night.”
―
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“To
know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.”
―
Sun Tzu
“It
takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart:
the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.”
―
Mark Twain
“Save
your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who
just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another
person to speak evil about you.”
―
Israelmore Ayivor
“I
was angry with my friend:
I
told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I
was angry with my foe;
I
told it not, my wrath did grow.
And
I water'd it in fears,
Night
& morning with my tears;
And
I sunnéd it with smiles
And
with soft deceitful wiles.
And
it grew both day and night,
Till
it bore an apple bright;
And
my foe beheld it shine,
And
he knew that it was mine,
And
into my garden stole,
When
the night had veil'd the pole:
In
the morning glad I see
My
foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.”
―
William Blake, Songs of Experience
“You
are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible
perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always
eluded you.”
―
Lisa Kleypas, Love in the Afternoon
“An
enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the
first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the
enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one
but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy
shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And
the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from
doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on I am your teacher.”
―
Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
“Your
friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to
it.”
―
Tim Fargo
“Protect
your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good
appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with
their chemical infested tongues.”
―
Michael Bassey Johnson
“The
unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.”
―
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
“Jacks
no longer felt like her enemy, he felt like her home.”
―
Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After
“When
you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of
insight.”
―
Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
“The
deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.”
―
Floriano Martins
“That
was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary.
There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night,
watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you
could put your finger on.”
―
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
“Until
every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma
for itself, the world cannot be free. Mankind will be enslaved until there is
mental grandeur enough to allow each man to have his thought and say. This
earth will be a paradise when men can, upon all these questions differ, and yet
grasp each other's hands as friends. It is amazing to me that a difference of
opinion upon subjects that we know nothing with certainty about, should make us
hate, persecute, and despise each other. Why a difference of opinion upon
predestination, or the trinity, should make people imprison and burn each other
seems beyond the comprehension of man; and yet in all countries where
Christians have existed, they have destroyed each other to the exact extent of
their power. Why should a believer in God hate an atheist? Surely the atheist
has not injured God, and surely he is human, capable of joy and pain, and
entitled to all the rights of man. Would it not be far better to treat this
atheist, at least, as well as he treats us?
Christians
tell me that they love their enemies, and yet all I ask is—not that they love
their enemies, not that they love their friends even, but that they treat those
who differ from them, with simple fairness.
We
do not wish to be forgiven, but we wish Christians to so act that we will not
have to forgive them. If all will admit that all have an equal right to think,
then the question is forever solved; but as long as organized and powerful
churches, pretending to hold the keys of heaven and hell, denounce every person
as an outcast and criminal who thinks for himself and denies their authority,
the world will be filled with hatred and suffering. To hate man and worship God
seems to be the sum of all the creeds.”
―
Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses
“What
man ever openly apologizes for slander? It is not so much a feeling of slander
as it is that of a massive lie, a misdeed not only to the slandered but also to
those manipulated in the process. He has made them all, every one, his enemies,
thereupon he is so overwhelmed with guilt that he will deny it until his
grave.”
―
Criss Jami, Killosophy
“It
doesn't take long to persuade each other to stop seeing a person as a person.
And when enough people are quiet for long enough, a handful of voices can give
the impression that everyone is screaming.”
―
Fredrik Backman, Beartown
