Top 100 Best Enemy Quotes
#1. I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.
Richard Marx
#2. So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.
Richard Marx
#3. In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#4. Evening was my worst friend and my best enemy, and she never really knew me, because even in the end, she didn't understand that I would've done it without the curse.
Seanan McGuire
#5. One person's enemy is another person's best friend. My favorite food might give you a rash.
Deepak Chopra
#7. The ground must be a general's best friend, or it becomes his worst enemy.
Joe Abercrombie
#8. Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.
Mike Tyson
#9. If you can educate Muslims about their biggest enemy, and if you can solve the problem, the ideological problem, it doesn't give an immediate result, but it's the best thing over the long term.
Mosab Hassan Yousef
#10. Our best friend and our worst enemy reside within us. Unfortunately, most of us access the latter far more often than the former.
Maddy Malhotra
#11. It's best to know what the enemy are saying.
J.K. Rowling
#12. Revenge is a dish best eaten cold and there is no sweeter dish than outliving an enemy
Don Darkes
#13. One's enemy is often the best teacher of tolerance.
Colleen Houck
#14. There's more to being a warrior than killing. A true warrior - the best warrior - isn't cruel or mean. He doesn't claw an enemy who can't fight back. Where's the honor in that?
Erin Hunter
#16. A life without love is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. So, keep love in your heart if not your best friend today will turn to your worst enemy tomorrow.
Osunsakin Adewale
#17. For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.
Dalai Lama
#18. The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good; and many a good book has remained unwritten ... because there floated before the mind's eye the ideal of a better or a best.
Richard Chenevix Trench
#19. We are our best friend and our worst enemy we will ever fight with.
Debasish Mridha
#20. It's best to know what the enemy is saying
J.K. Rowling
#21. I'm just trying to do my best in the circumstances and am very happy for everyone else to do the same so I don't cultivate enemies.
Martin Bashir
#22. Political criticism is our enemies' best friend.
Bernard Kerik
#23. Your attitude is either your best friend or your worst enemy, your greatest asset or your greatest liability
John C. Maxwell
#24. The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.
Benjamin Franklin
#25. The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.
Abraham Lincoln
#26. The best thing we could have done for Afghanistan was to get out of our Humvees and drink more green chai. We should have focused less on finding the enemy, and more on finding our friends.
Craig M. Mullaney
#28. Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.
Chrissie Hynde
#30. Obstacles are not opposing you, but merely and gently re-routing you. It is important not to view that which stands in your way as your 'enemy.' It can often be your best friend, sending you on a detour that takes you around what would have been your biggest stumbling block.
Neale Donald Walsch
#31. Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King's Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy."
"How odd. I think quite the same of you.
George R R Martin
#32. I can be your best friend or your worst enemy. You seem to prefer the latter.
Jim Carrey
#33. 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
#35. Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#36. In the global picture of God's plan for your life, the good can be the Enemy of the better. And the better is the foe of the best. Until the good is cleared out of the way, you cannot receive that which is better, and you cannot receive the best until you are willing to let go of the better.
Pedro Okoro
#37. The best gifts to give: To your friend, loyalty; To your enemy, forgiveness; To your boss, service; To a child, a good example; To your parents, gratitude and devotion; To your mate, love and faithfulness; To all men and women, charity.
Oren Arnold
#38. Your mind ... can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it's your choice to make.
Demi Lovato
#40. Are we going to do the best we can by tolerating this unwanted enemy or do we make a stand of defiance?" The
Adeodata O. Warner
#41. We seem to face an enemy who, no matter how many times we win, will best us in the end. He has so many allies: time, disease, boredom, stupidity, religious quackery, and bad habits.
Tom Robbins
#42. We Destruct more than we Build. . . We are humans. . . We are the best and more powerful creature on earth. . . We are Humans and our greatest enemy is Human . . . What the fu** do we want ?
Guru
#43. If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#44. The best gift that we can give to our enemy is not war, but forgiveness and peace.
Debasish Mridha
#45. Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#46. A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
Max Lerner
#47. To decide what the best use of it is, you must ask what use the Enemy wants to make of it, and then do the opposite.
C.S. Lewis
#48. I shot her because she had just killed my best friend and my worst enemy with a single hand -grenade.
This episode made me sorry to be alive , made me envy stones.
I would rather have been a stone at the service of the Natural Order
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#49. Mind can be your best friend or worst enemy.
Kabira
#50. The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.
Oswald Chambers
#51. The body of an actor can be either his best friend or his worst enemy.
Marcus Aurelius
#52. Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today ... It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on.
Asger Jorn
#53. I can tell we're going to get along like Batman and the Joker. (Fang) Just remember one thing, world. I'm the best friend you'll ever have or the last enemy you'll ever make. (Thorn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#54. When in the house of the enemy, the best rooms are always the ones with the lights out.
Dean F. Wilson
#56. 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
#57. Traditions of the Shinobi: Those who are active as shinobi should try their best to see, hear, or write down what they should know and, in secret, to collect the information about a place, even while in battle. This will enable you to steal into the enemy territory with tactics.
Yoshie Minami
#58. I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy
Scott Westerfeld
#59. The best way to lose an enemy is to treat him like a friend.
John Maxwell
#60. Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans, the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces, the next in order is to attack the enemy's army in the field, and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities.
Sun Tzu
#61. The Enemy of the best is the good. If you're always settling with what's good, you'll never be the best.
Jerry Rice
#62. If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won't find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. (99)
Swami Satchidananda
#63. 34. Not equal are the good and the bad response. You shall resort to the one which is better. Thus, the one who used to be your enemy, may become your best friend.
The Monotheist Group
#64. Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
Jean Cocteau
#65. Living well and ripping your enemy's still-beating heart out with your bare hands is the best revenge.
Michael O'Donoghue
#66. To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#67. Never lose sight of this maxim, that you should establish your cantonments at the most distant and best protected point from the enemy, especially where a surprise is possible. By this means you will have time to unite all your forces before he can attack you.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#68. It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
Hesiod
#69. Even better to take a walk in your enemy's shoes. 'Tis the best way to control their footsteps.
A.G. Howard
#70. The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln
#71. The worst enemy a man can ever have is the one who was once his best friend.' Sita
Amish Tripathi
#72. Humans best survive when they are given a purpose; a common enemy to defeat, revenge to wreak or a dream to cling to.
Bryce Courtenay
#73. You may think you are your best friend, but at times you you may be your worst enemy
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#74. Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.
Benjamin Franklin
#75. If you want sympathy, look for a friend, but if you want honesty, an enemy might be the best friend you ever had.
Tonya Hurley
#76. I think you should check out 'Battle: Los Angeles' because it really is a sci-fi movie, but it's not. It's not like anything you've seen before. The best way to describe it is it's a war movie that happens to have aliens as the enemy.
Noel Fisher
#78. When you are without friends, the next best thing is an enemy who knows you well.
Midnight Blue
#79. The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood.
Mark Helprin
#81. Caution is a spy's best friend; paranoia is his enemy.
Jack Barsky
#82. I would sooner lose my best friend than my worst enemy. To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.
Oscar Wilde
#83. He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy, and is afraid of solitude.59 Such
Will Durant
#84. If you can't have another ally," I said at last, "next best thing is to give your enemy another enemy.
Benedict Jacka
#85. Has not one of the poets said that a noble friend is the best gift and a noble enemy the next best?
C.S. Lewis
#86. There is no other enemy of a human being except his own nature.
Deep Trivedi
#87. The best way to weaken one's enemy was to get him to believe that you were on his side.
Paulo Coelho
#89. There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
Saul Bellow
#90. Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
Oliver Goldsmith
#93. One of the best sources of perspective is enemies. If we can learn from them, then we can profit from anyone.
Dan B. Allender
#94. Before you were my enemy, you were my best friend.
Kresley Cole
#95. The best thing to give
your enemy is forgiveness;
to an oponent, tolerance;
to a friend, your heart;
to your child, a good example;
to your father, deference;
to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you;
to your self, respect;
to all men charity.
Swami Sivananda Radha
#96. You are your own best friend or worst enemy ... choose wisely!
Timothy Pina
#97. Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?
Bernard Berenson
#98. I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.
Hedy Lamarr
#99. The good is the Enemy of the best. Until you depart from the good, you cannot enter God's best for your life.
Pedro Okoro
#100. We know that in the attempt to be freed of the enemy without, we can be tempted to feed the enemy within. To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.
Pope Francis
