Top 40 Enemy Is Yourself Quotes
#1. your biggest enemy is yourself, your creation of barriers, your destruction of your freedom." They
Dean F. Wilson
#2. By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.
Chuck Palahniuk
#3. You see it everywhere and everyone seems to be doing it but you. You could have had it as well, and you know it, and that's what bothers you. Your worst enemy is yourself, and sadly, you know that what you did wasn't worth what you lost.
Donna Lynn Hope
#5. I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
Will Rogers
#6. If the enemy is a significant part of your body, then how do you destroy it without killing yourself?
Toba Beta
#7. There are so many ways to betray someone.
You can whisper behind his back.
You can deceive him on purpose.
You can deliver him into the hands of his enemy, when he trusts you.
You can break a promise.
The question is, if you do any of those things, are you also betraying yourself?
Jodi Picoult
#8. The enemy you flee is not exterior to yourself
John Barth
#9. Defending yourself is not the same as offending your enemy. Watch what you say.
Holly Chamberlin
#10. Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.
Rumi
#11. You should ... live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.
Seneca.
#12. 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
#13. If something
goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Don't be like Pharaoh chopping off the heads
of innocent babies, when the enemy he is looking for, Moses, was in his own house.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#14. When you are engaged in both trying to kill and capture the enemy and get support from the local population, you have to be always asking yourself, "Is what I'm doing keeping that balance?"
Hillary Clinton
#15. In any game, you have an enemy coming at yourself that you have to shoot. If you go back to 'Space Invaders,' they shoot at you when they come at you, so how are you going to protect yourself? You're going to shoot, and that is a typical videogame.
Hideo Kojima
#16. That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.
June Jordan
#18. Someone has pointed out that "I" is the centre of S-I-N. It is the medium through which Satan acts. And so the worst enemy you have to overcome, after all, is yourself. When
D.L. Moody
#19. Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.
Matt Lucas
#20. We have met the enemy and have learned nothing more about him. I have, however, learned some things about myself. There are things men can do to one another that are sobering to the soul. It is one thing to reconcile these things with God, but another to square it with yourself.
Robert Leckie
#21. Know the enemy, know yourself and victory is never in doubt, not in a hundred battles.
Sun Tzu
#22. War is when your government tells you who the enemy is. A revolution is when you figure it out yourself.
Anonymous
#23. I don't hide out. If you build a wall around yourself, it draws people to invade it. Fear is the enemy.
Matt Dillon
#24. To forgive a friend, one must practice generosity. To forgive an enemy, one must practice empathy. To forgive yourself requires charity. Forgiveness is a sacred act of gallantry.
Mac MacKenzie
#25. Anyone who wants to prevent you from making other people happy is an enemy. If you are stopping yourself from making others happy, you are your own enemy.
Israelmore Ayivor
#26. I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.
Tim Robbins
#27. 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
#28. Overcoming yourself is better than overcoming a million enemies in battle.
Gautama Buddha
#29. Know, my son, that the enemy will always be with you. He will be in the shadow of your dreams and in your living flesh, for he is the other part of yourself.
Jane Yolen
#30. Your belief is as important as your physical strength. You need to believe in yourself and in your weapon both. Doubt is the enemy. Hesitation is potentially fatal." Sebec
Terry Brooks
#31. Your enemy is still yourself. You don't have enemies. They may be self-styled. I have plenty of self-styled enemies. I don't wish them harm.
Goswami Kriyananda
#32. Once you tell a lie, the truth is your enemy; and every truth connected to that truth, and every ally of truth in general; all of these you must oppose, to protect the lie. Whether you're lying to others, or to yourself.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#33. The Aramaic word for "forgive" means literally to "untie." Hatred and anger had bound me to my pain. The fastest way to free the self from an enemy and all associated negativity is to forgive. Untie those bindings; free yourself from that person's ugliness.
Sharon E. Rainey
#34. Self-mastery is the challenge of transforming yourself from own worst enemy into your greatest ally.
Wes Fesler
#35. I think one important thing that happens in the studio is accepting yourself as the enemy and painting from that point of view. So instead of pointing the finger outward and passing judgment, instead, you start with yourself as your own worst enemy.
Lisa Yuskavage
#36. Winning is not only about strengthening yourself; it's also about weakening the enemy.
Ashwin Sanghi
#37. When you see a person acting violently, ask yourself whether he knows how powerful he is. If he knew his power, would he feel the need to assert it?
Vironika Tugaleva
#38. There is no greater illusion than fear,
no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself,
no greater misfortune than having an enemy.
Lao-Tzu
#39. Helping yourself is wisdom.
Helping your neighbor is kindness.
Helping your friend is virtue.
Helping your family is duty.
Helping your enemy is love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#40. O you, who spends his lifetime disobeying his Lord, no one amongst your enemies is wicked to you more than you are to yourself
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
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