Man Is His Own Worst Enemy Quotes

#1. Man is his own worst enemy.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. Every man is his own worst enemy

Christina, Queen Of Sweden

#3. The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.

John Jay Chapman

#4. Self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.

Nick Hornby

#5. The goal of life is not the earning of money, but the service of God.p.114

Ramakrishna

#6. Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy.

Theodore Roosevelt

#7. Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

Gilbert Parker

#8. It is not all of life to live, nor yet all of death to die. For life and death are one, and only those who will consider the experience as one may come to understand or comprehend what peace indeed means.

Edgar Cayce

#9. Like every man I am my own worst enemy, but unlike most men I know too that I am my own saviour.

Henry Miller

#10. The worst enemy a man can ever have is the one who was once his best friend.' Sita

Amish Tripathi

#11. A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.

Robert Jordan

#12. The batteries in his radio died and came back so often they could have had regular roles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Nevada Barr

#13. Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent.

George W. Buck

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. The music industry is such a huge machine. There are still a lot of good people in it, but the character of the industry and the culture of the industry is very fast.

Robyn

#17. Literature cannot be reality in a same way as literature cannot be idealistic.

Shankar Lamichhane

#18. Late in his life, Rene complained of living a life of a celebrity one minute and a "John Doe" the next.

James D. Bradley

#19. You can desire joy, and hope for it, but joy has a mind of its own and won't let itself be pressured or stressed. So wait for it, allow yourself to be happy, and be happy when you are happy.

Matias Dalsgaard

#20. Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.

Gerrit Smith

#21. A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.

John Le Carre

#22. Never go to bed angry. Terrified is okay.

Jesse Petersen

#23. A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs a shudder through the nether empire; and new emissaries are trained with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap and hoodwink and handcuff him.

Thomas Carlyle

#24. Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

Frank Sinatra

#25. Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.

Michel De Montaigne

#26. I wouldn't wish this sort of agony on my worst enemy. It was pure and complete torture. To know that, for the man who made up my entire world, I was not enough for him.

Courtney Giardina

#27. A nation with a goofy foreign policy needs a very serious policy of defense.

P. J. O'Rourke

#28. Plutarch has written an essay on the benefits which a man may receive from his enemies; and among the good fruits of enmity, mentions this in particular, that by the reproaches which it casts upon us, we see the worst side of ourselves.

Joseph Addison

#29. Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

William Temple

#30. Why is failure the first thing I think of when I find myself in this sort of situation? Why can't I just enjoy myself? But if you have to ask the question, then you know you're lost: self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy. Already I'm wondering whether she's as aware of my erection as I am ...

Nick Hornby

#31. Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees.

Ernest Mandel

#32. I'm a woman of color. I've lived in black neighborhoods all of my life, and most of the time I get hit on in my neighborhood - and mostly by black men. And so I wanted to have my specific experience and my perspective on street harassment out there.

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

#33. A man who tries to make the workmen believe that their employers are their natural enemies is indeed the worst enemy of workmen. For the employees of yesterday are the employers of today, and the employees of today can and will partly be the employers of tomorrow.

William J.H. Boetcker

#34. My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school.

Travis Barker

#35. It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man.

Germaine Greer

#36. Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Charles Spurgeon

#37. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name.

Lao-Tzu

#38. Things! Burn them, burn them! Make a beautiful fire! More room in your heart for love, for the trees! For the birds who own nothing - the reason they can fly.

Mary Oliver

#39. A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

William Wrigley Jr.