Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. Votes: 5
Martin Luther King, Jr.You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. Votes: 4
Winston ChurchillIn the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Votes: 4
Martin Luther King, Jr.He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy. Votes: 4
SocratesRationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. Votes: 2
Arthur EricksonAnyone that goes to battle goes to battle knowing the mindset and tactics of their enemies. Votes: 2
Brad ThorThe reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. Votes: 2
Sam LevensonNever explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. Votes: 2
Elbert HubbardYou can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. Votes: 2
Eric HofferMen are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves. Votes: 2
Betty FriedanIf you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. Votes: 2
Sun TzuYou win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect. Votes: 2
Miyamoto MusashiYou must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. Votes: 2
Napoleon BonaparteIf Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. Votes: 2
James MadisonSelf-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. Votes: 2
Helen KellerI don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMy opinion was that if we had a common enemy we should get together commonly.
Julius and Ethel RosenbergDestiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelDo you wish to make of your enemy a friend? Then become a friend to your enemy.
Andrew Jackson DavisBe careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.
Friedrich NietzscheTo be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.
Carl von ClausewitzIf there be no enemy, no fight; if do fight, no victory; if no victory, no crown.
Girolamo SavonarolaWhatever keeps me from my Bible is my enemy, however harmless it may appear to be.
Aiden Wilson TozerIt is better to listen to a wise enemy than to seek counsel from a foolish friend.
Ali ibn Abi TalibWorry is the enemy of love. You cannot be in love and be worried at the same time.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarThe opposition occupies the benches in front of you, but the enemy sits behind you
Winston ChurchillLend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.
Benjamin FranklinJust because you're the enemy of my enemy don't mean you're my friend, Han thought.
Cinda Williams ChimaIf there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.
Stephen Jay GouldIn dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.
Breyten BreytenbachEvery battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.
Dwight D. EisenhowerA friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.
Friedrich NietzscheFor us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy!
Mehmet Murat ildanWhen you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.
Napoleon BonaparteWith difficulty he is beaten who can estimate his own forces and those of his enemy.
Niccolo MachiavelliThou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.
Benjamin FranklinWhen it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.
Camille PagliaThere is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
George WashingtonUnited Airlines: Passengers are our worst enemy. We're not too fond of luggage either.
David LettermanThat good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem.
James C. CollinsDon't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
Marquis de SadeJoking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry.
Milan KunderaHe moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis.
Terry PratchettThe worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate.
Tobsha LearnerThe enemy combatants in LA are not the citizens and suspects, it's the police officers,
Christopher DornerWhen you're up against a superior enemy, sometimes it's okay to just bow out gracefully
Lurlene McDanielThe best way to weaken one's enemy was to get him to believe that you were on his side.
Paulo CoelhoImagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.
Saint AugustineBreath and brevity are sisters; the long-winded is an enemy who muffles your heartbeat.
Shirley Geok-lin LimTime, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.
Tobias WolffAll the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
Adam JohnsonI suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.
Anne BishopFrederick liked to say that three men behind the enemy were worth fifty in front of him.
Ardant du PicqIt is mostly a matter of wills. Whose will is going to break first? Ours or the enemy's?
James MattisMake your enemy afraid, for it is impossible to remain quiet about their moral offences,
Muqtada al SadrAn angry enemy encroached on our lives, our territory, our freedom and our independence.
Petro PoroshenkoFear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow
Steve PavlinaIf you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy.
Yamamoto TsunetomoI am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.
Dean KoontzIt's always interesting to step into the enemy's shoes, and figure out what they're like.
Natalie PortmanGet out of your own way. Often, we're our own worst enemy when working towards our goals.
Robert KiyosakiWhat sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?
Thomas PynchonFor the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.
Umberto EcoNever underestimate the enemy, above all if he is a stupid one and deserves to be killed.
William C. BrownTry to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.
Zadie SmithIt's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other.
Orson Scott CardEvery effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
Oscar WildePITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.
Ambrose BierceOrganized religion always has been and remains the greatest enemy of women's rights. . . .
Annie Laurie GaylorPeople, please remember that I choose my words very carefully. Assumptions are your enemy.
Chris KluweI don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.
Duke of WellingtonNothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of HalifaxWords are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.
George SantayanaWe should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
John Henry NewmanTo kill your enemy is not a victory; but to make your enemy your friend that is a victory!
Mehmet Murat ildanWhen you drop bombs on the enemy, you drop those same bombs on yourself, your own country.
Nhat HanhBe indifferent if you lose your short term clients, remember they are your own worst enemy
Seth Klarmanno army has ever marched into battle thinking that the Creator had sided with their enemy.
Terry GoodkindTo forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
Amelia BarrWish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more.
Bryant H. McGillA debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace
ChanakyaIt is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.
Dalai LamaWe don't criticize. Criticism is an enemy. You've got to make loving, positive suggestions.
Dorothy SarnoffWe must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.
Mahatma GandhiRefusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy.
Max LucadoThe enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
Truman CapoteThe fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.
Gautama BuddhaI think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you.
J. G. BallardThe criminals will be humiliated... To hurt the enemy more, raise the level of your attacks.
Mohammed Saeed al-SahafAnd I was holding someone who was destined to be my best friend, or possibly my worst enemy.
Rick RiordanWinning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field.
Sun TzuAmerica betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I'd rather be America's enemy.
Ahmed ChalabiTo say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.
Henry David ThoreauSometimes perfecting the one thing can be the enemy of getting any traction on anything else.
Jay RoachWe all fight on two fronts, the one facing the enemy, the one facing what we do to the enemy.
Joseph BoydenLife becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.
Mahatma GandhiI was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.
Martin LutherWhoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.
Pierre-Joseph ProudhonThe war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
Quentin CrispFor one who has really mastered the way of warfare, his enemy can do nothing to escape death.
Sun BinThe enemy doesn't care how many days you live as long as you don't live in the days you have.
T. D. JakesAn essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises.
Alma GuillermoprietoOur enemy is more aware than we are of the spiritual possibilities that depend upon obedience.
Amy CarmichaelIf we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.
Daniel Patrick MoynihanAn enemy is like a man's most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground.
David GemmellThere is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.
Henryk SienkiewiczBelieve me, a thousand friends suffice thee not; In a single enemy thou hast more than enough.
Muhammad AliIn war you see your own troubles; those of the enemy you cannot see. You must show confidence.
Napoleon BonaparteThe problem of destroying enemy rockets in flight has been successfully solved in our country.
Sergey BiryuzovComplacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.
Aiden Wilson TozerContempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.
Ambrose BierceI do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.
Conor OberstIf anyone wants to know what the definition of 'dope' means, it's: 'Definition of Public Enemy.
Flavor FlavThe War is not don so long as my Enemy lives. [The war is not done so long as my enemy lives.]
George HerbertBefore Guadalcanal the enemy advanced at his pleasure - after Guadalcanal he retreated at ours.
HalseyBoth teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.
John Stuart MillThere is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy.
Joseph AddisonForgetfulness of God's grace is one of the greatest tools in the enemy's war against our souls.
Mark DeverHow I exist in this world is that you're in or you're out. You are family or you are the enemy.
Meghan McCainCutting down the enemy is the way of strategy, and there is no need for many refinements of it.
Miyamoto MusashiAnyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.
PropertiusI regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.
Richard WagnerEvery traditional ways in politics that you get rid of an enemy has not worked on Donald Trump.
Ruqaiyyah Waris MaqsoodEvery traditional ways in politics that you get rid of an enemy has not worked on Donald Trump.
Rush LimbaughThus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle .... They conquer by strategy.
Sun TzuThe enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.
Terry PratchettThe adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.
VoltaireDo not allow the enemy of your soul to rob you of that unique quality God has breathed into you.
Aiden Wilson TozerThe enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.
Anais NinHate your enemy with a whole heart, and if a man smite you on one cheek, SMASH him on the other!
Anton Szandor LaVeyIt is certainly impossible to imagine forgiving the enemy while their animus remains undefeated.
Chris CleaveNo sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.
Dietrich BonhoefferIn this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!
Eddie RickenbackerAfter all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.
John le CarreI tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer.
Muhammad IqbalYou'd make an enemy out of me over a human?" The word "human" might as well have been "rodent.
Nalini SinghStuff has become the enemy. There always seems to be more of it than I have storage in my house!
Rick RiordanWhenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.
Stephen VizinczeyWhen the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
Sun TzuWhere I come from, there's no common enemy, there's no "why." There's no, "I hate white people."
Vince StaplesThe phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.
Ann BrasharesThe coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.
Friedrich NietzscheNothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men. Votes: 3 King Hussein I
If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy. Votes: 1 Simon Van Booy
In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him. Votes: 3 Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments during war. Votes: 2 Harvey Fierstein
The good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy. Votes: 3 Sun Tzu
Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers. Votes: 2 Chris Chocola
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. Votes: 2 Washington Irving
Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us. Votes: 4 Charles Spurgeon
If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate. Votes: 2 Cate Blanchett
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. Votes: 1 Arthur Ashe
I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God - and I hope you'll quote me on that. Votes: 1 Arthur Hertzberg
The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends. Votes: 2 Peter Ustinov
If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend. Votes: 2 Henri Nouwen
Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment. Votes: 1 Mario Puzo
You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect. Votes: 2 Miyamoto Musashi
You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect. Votes: 3 Miyamoto Musashi
Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy. Votes: 5 Frank Sinatra
Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better. Votes: 1 E. W. Howe
Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy. Votes: 1 David Hackworth
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. Votes: 4 Aldous Huxley