Top 100 Mind Enemy Quotes
#1. Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
Thomas More
#2. It reminded him of that definition of his father's. A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind. The mind was the first and final battleground; the stuff in between was just noise.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#3. Whatever the hateful do to the hateful, or an enemy to an enemy, worse is the harm of a misguided mind directed at oneself.
Gautama Buddha
#4. Switch off the mind and let the heart decide who you were meant to be Flick to remote and let the body glide There is no enemy! Etch out a future of your own design Well tailored to your needs Then fan the flame and keep the dream alive ... the future is roses! Roses!
Thomas Dolby
#5. There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.
C.S. Lewis
#6. We deal with our mind from morning till evening and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.
Matthieu Ricard
#7. Your mind is your biggest enemy and your dearest friend.
Debasish Mridha
#8. Choose your enemies carefully 'cause they will define you Make them interesting 'cause in some ways they will mind you They're not there in the beginning but when your story ends Gonna last with you longer than your friend
Cormac McCarthy
#9. 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
#10. If you're facing a season of trials, don't allow the enemy to have a field day by putting negative thoughts in your mind. Let go of stinking thinking. Instead of turning away from God in anger or confusion, run into His loving arms where He will comfort you.
Dana Arcuri
#11. Happiness is the enemy. It weakens you, puts doubts in your mind. Suddenly, you have something to lose.
Daniel Bruhl
#12. Once you overcome the hatred within your mind, you will discover that in the world outside, there is no longer any such thing as even a single enemy.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
#13. The notion of infinity is our greatest friend; it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind.
James Pierpont
#14. Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but the trouble they inflict on the minds of students is a blight and a curse.
Neil Postman
#15. Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#16. Some one may say, are you not ashamed to be so taken in like a fool? Yes, I should be ashamed, if it had been an open enemy who had so deceived me. But, to my mind, when friend cheats friend, a deeper stain attaches to the perpetrator than to the victim of deceit.
Xenophon
#17. Winning is about making enemy reacts as predicted.
Toba Beta
#18. The longer you hold onto your bitterness, the longer it will take to truly heal your heart. Whenever you notice bitterness coming into your heart, forsake it in the name of God. Make bitterness your sworn enemy. This is a spiritual battle going on in your mind, and you have to treat it as such.
Marsha Rozalski
#19. It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.
Terry Pratchett
#20. If any of you ... have a mind to make himself heard a mile off, you must make a bonfire of your reputations and a close enemy of most men who would wish you well.
John Jay Chapman
#21. If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living beings become your friends. The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts. Check your own mind to see whether or not this is true.
Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
#22. It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single glimpse of clean, hard, radiant competence. She had fits of tortured longing for a friend or enemy with a mind better than her own.
Ayn Rand
#23. Mind can be your best friend or worst enemy.
Kabira
#25. I know how to work a problem. Frustration is the enemy. It makes you do stupid things. So you don't let it beat you. Instead you search for landmarks, look for signs. The task takes every single bit of me I have left. It's good, this task, because it keeps my mind focused.
Carolyn Lee Adams
#26. I don't mind comments saying things about me. I do mind them saying things about those young, brave men and women who have volunteered. That's offensive to me that people would say those kind of comments about Americans who have volunteered to take the fight to the enemy.
George W. Bush
#27. Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse
Gautama Buddha
#28. Whatever attracts the mind from God, whatever draws the affections away from Christ, is an enemy to the soul.
Ellen G. White
#29. It is certainly a greater and more wonderful work to change the minds of enemies, bringing about a change of soul, than to kill them.
Saint John Chrysostom
#30. Our limited mind is our enemy and our unlimited mind is our best friend. When you become a slave of the mind, it will limit you. When you use it, it will bring you the whole universe.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#31. 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
#32. The principle is this: We must not allow anything into our life that feeds our point of weakness. A soldier doesn't dance through a mind field any more than we should play with a hand grenade. When the enemy's entry points are boarded up, it frees us to hear clearly the voice of our Commander.
Eric Ludy
#33. Water was a state of mind. If you think it your friend when you swim in the river or wash away the dirt, why call it your enemy when it comes from the heavens? From the cup of the gods themselves.
Kate Furnivall
#34. Malone kept listening, a saying from Sun Tzu's ART OF WAR spinning through his mind. When your enemy is in the process of destroying himself, stay out of the way.
Steve Berry
#35. There is not an enemy so stout, as to storm and take the fortress of the mind, Unless its infirmity turn traitor, and Fear unbar the gates.
John Adams
#36. The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions ... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what.
Dalai Lama
#37. I will give you my definition of a nation, and you can add the adjective 'Jewish.' A Nation is, in my mind, an historical group of men of a recognizable cohesion held together by a common enemy. Then, if you add to that the word 'Jewish' you have what I understand to be the Jewish nation.
Theodor Herzl
#38. But my mind has always been its own enemy.
Alexis Hall
#39. As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
Daniel Dennett
#40. To know one's enemy is to read their mind.
Cameron Jace
#41. The locus of the modern struggle with its enemy of death is clearly the body (not mind, society, or the afterworld). The body is the site of tragedy, the ultimate unresolvable paradox, for it is at once the source of life and of death.
Margaret M. Lock
#42. Make an enemy of certainty and befriend doubt. When you can change your mind, you can change anything.
Kevin Ashton
#43. None of this makes sense. At best, you've spent a lot of time failing to change someone's mind. At worst, you've made an enemy, damaged a relationship, and added to your reputation for being disagreeable.
Marshall Goldsmith
#44. Respecting people is my default state of mind.
But if there is a man does the otherwise to me,
I'll make him understand in anyway he'll listen.
Toba Beta
#45. Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride.
Gautama Buddha
#46. It is in a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that leads him to evil ways.
Gautama Buddha
#47. What does the enemy have to gain by convincing you to never deal with your past because your mind will never make it all the way through? It is a lie from the pit of hell. Today, claim your healing in Christ. It is your right as His child.
Beth Moore
#48. The wind is the appalling enemy. It is mind-destroying, physically-destroying, soul-destroying ...
Chris Bonington
#49. Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain ... pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy.
Terry Pratchett
#50. Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape? ... If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#51. Your mind is the most powerful wonder. It can be your greatest enemy or your closest ally.
There are no limits to what you can achieve if only you believe.
Michelle Horst
#52. If I were your enemy, I'd use every opportunity to bring old wounds to mind, as well as the people, events, and circumstances that caused them. I'd try to ensure that your heart was hardened with anger and bitterness. Shackled through unforgiveness.
Priscilla Shirer
#53. When you see contention amongst your enemies, go and sit at ease with your friends; but when you see them of one mind, string your bow, and place stones upon the ramparts.
Saadi
#54. The greatest enemy to your mind is the devil,
the greatest friend knowledge.
Many a mind need to be swept,
many a heart need to be cleansed.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#55. Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
Gene Fowler
#56. Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.
Sterling Hayden
#57. Well," she said, "if I were the enemy commander, and our assault had failed three times, and I wanted to make a fourth, I don't think I'd attack with fewer men. But that's just me."
"Shut up, Loiosh."
"I beg your pardon?"
"Never mind. Private joke.
Steven Brust
#58. I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.
Charles Brockden Brown
#59. My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.
Elyn Saks
#60. Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate - and quickly.
Robert A. Heinlein
#61. Peace is something you only have when your enemy is gone. Either after you have turned him into a friend or vanquished him
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. The mind becomes a friend to the one who has control over it and an enemy to the one who is controlled by it.
Edward Viljoen
#65. Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
Pliny The Elder
#66. The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book.
Christopher Hitchens
#67. Never mind of what your enemy thinks of you, relax and think a head of him.
Auliq Ice
#68. The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.
Jim DeMint
#69. It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Gautama Buddha
#70. The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.
Rebecca West
#71. To identify the enemy is to free the mind.
Mari Evans
#72. 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
#73. I finally understood that I didn't lack pen and paper but my own
memorizing mind. It had been given away with a hundred poems, called
rote learning, old-fashioned, backward, an enemy of creative thinking,
a great human gift disowned.
Grace Paley
#74. The strongest and most dangerous enemy you will ever face is a negative attitude. Learn to recognize when it is trying to invade your body and mind, then simply refuse it entry.
John Newcombe
#75. While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.
Douglas MacArthur
#76. Your mind ... can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it's your choice to make.
Demi Lovato
#77. Modern man has lost the sense of wonder
about the unknown and he treats it as
an enemy.
Laurens Van Der Post
#78. War is a mind-set, and all action that comes out of such a mind-set will either strengthen the enemy, the perceived evil, or, if the war is won, will create a new enemy, a new evil equal to and often worse than the one that was defeated.
Eckhart Tolle
#79. I've been all over the place in all kinds of living situations. Due to the fact that my mind is my own worst enemy. In a way I am perpetually and permanently in a state of rehabilitation m in an attempt to rehabilitate from the shock of being born.Some people are too sensitive to withstand that.
Heather O'Neill
#80. Your level is above the reach of the devil ... Keep it in mind; as long as you are in the light of God, you bind him (the devil) tight!
Israelmore Ayivor
#81. If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#82. I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalise and mythologise their science to such an extent that what is, in effect, a belief in us (though not under that name) will creep in while the human mind remains closed to belief in the Enemy. The
C.S. Lewis
#83. The Foolish Warrior attacks Enemy soldiers. The Supreme Warrior battles the Mind.
John Viril
#84. Our enemy within are our Core Negative Beliefs. Negative beliefs hide from the Consciousness and they get exposed by the Magic of Mindfulness and Awareness. Explore Your Core Beliefs, Challenge Existing, Train Mindfulness, Understand Beauty, Work with Emptiness, Meditate
Natasa Nuit Pantovic
#85. [To] the progressive mind, the very concept of "the enemy" is obsolescent: there are no enemies, just friends whose grievances we haven't yet accommodated.
Mark Steyn
#87. Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind.
Bruce Lee
#88. I have been accused of many things in my life, but not even my worst enemy has ever accused me of being afraid to speak my mind.
Lee Kuan Yew
#89. To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.
George Orwell
#90. When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
Matsuo Basho
#91. I don't make enemies, it's just I'm not afraid to speak my mind, which can sometimes mean people don't like what I am saying.
Alan Sugar
#92. The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.
Tom Robbins
#94. The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize the army ordered to do it. Torture corrodes the mind of the torturer.
James Risen
#96. America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal of tolerance, freedom, education, opportunity.
David McCullough
#97. The faults were clear enough: the greatest of them was an initial lack of appreciation of the possibilities of the enemy; a certain indiscipline of mind; a tendency towards exaggeration
Rick Atkinson
#98. A threat should never be spoken, your enemy should not be told of your intentions. Either take decisive action or refrain from it, but never threaten
Soke Behzad Ahmadi
#99. The Brother's eyes narrowed. But here's something to keep in mind. You ever hurt him on purpose and I will consider you my enemy.
J.R. Ward
#100. Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. (1 Peter 5:8)
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