Top 100 Own Enemy Quotes
#1. 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
#2. The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.
Rebecca West
#3. The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.
Floriano Martins
#4. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women's intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn't realize it. I
Elena Ferrante
#5. The greatest trick our enemy ever did Was to make us think we are our own enemy Is to make us ashamed, and hate ourselves Thinking we are our own enemy
Jason King Godwise
#6. You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and your own enemy.
Swami Satchidananda
#7. We become our own enemy when we are thrown out of balance by anger, hatred, grief, or any other intense emotion. We are for the time being obsessed by something alien.
Swami Paramananda
#8. The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women's intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn't realize it. I waited in silence
Elena Ferrante
#10. Someone who was talking about
enemies, is afraid of showing to be
it's own enemy.
P. Hermans
August 19, 2016
Petra Hermans
#11. The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.
Idries Shah
#12. Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy
Saadi
#13. Don't believe that,' said Fagin. 'When a man's his own enemy, it's only because he's too much his own friend.
Charles Dickens
#14. Each time I stopped I stripped myself of something vitally important. I was, becoming my own enemy! And I can't tell you how it hurt me when I found that out. What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#15. Baby boomers helped me a great deal in my career. They launched me. They were there for me to sing my song to. And I'm not saying I'm better than anyone, but I think they turned that anti-authority baby boom mentality into their own enemy. Now I identify very closely with their children.
George Carlin
#16. But my mind has always been its own enemy.
Alexis Hall
#17. No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy.
Mahatma Gandhi
#18. If mankind is to have a new beginning among the stars, it will not come cheaply, for we are our own enemy and bring our demons with us as we have done throughout history.
Jay Allan
#19. It is two years since I emerged from depression and I no longer want myself dead. I want myself alive. I am no longer my own enemy. Depression is the enemy. The monster lives at my gate. My hope is that, with sufficient effort and luck, I can keep it there.
Sally Brampton
#20. The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.
Gautama Buddha
#21. The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.
Daisy Bates
#23. If a man be the enemy of another from mistake and prejudice, as in the case of religious opinions, and sometimes in politics, that man is different to an enemy at heart with a criminal intention; and it is incumbent upon as, and it contributes also to our own tranquillity, that we
Thomas Paine
#24. When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before the commander-in-chief can tell whether or not he is in a position to fight, the result is ruin.
Sun Tzu
#25. Prudence is a duty which we owe ourselves, and if we will be so much our own enemies as to neglect it, we are not to wonder if the world is deficient in discharging their duty to us; for when a man lays the foundation of his own ruin, others too often are apt to build upon it.
Henry Fielding
#26. I control my life and I have never let success run away with me - I've taken it and ran. And the only thing that could threaten my stability is me - I'm my only threat and my own worst enemy. Beyond that, I don't feel successful. I'm nowhere near where I plan to be as far as my goals.
Chaka Khan
#27. Let the enemy fall by their swords. Words not worth reading die their own death. But our Words will be Told!
K.A. Gunn
#28. It is quite in the order of things in folk-tales . . . that a parent should purchase his own safety by sacrificing his son to a ferocious animal or to a supernatural enemy.
C. Fillingham Coxwell
#29. Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.
Horatio Nelson
#30. Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.
Carolyn McCarthy
#31. I am still bullied occasionally. However, none of my current bullies really exist. They're all in my head. Be your own best friend instead of your worst enemy.
Abiola Abrams
#32. Mental tranquility, or calmness, is a very important source of happiness. An external enemy, no matter how powerful, cannot strike directly at our mental calmness, because calmness is formless. Our happiness or joy can only be destroyed by our own anger. The real enemy of joy is anger.
Dalai Lama XIV
#33. Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.
Mao Zedong
#34. It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten.
Christopher Hitchens
#35. If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.
Jay Maisel
#36. Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#37. The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing wrong from his own principles.
William Warburton
#38. When a man is willing to find an excuse for being God's enemy he need never be at a loss. He who hath to find a fact may find some difficulty; but he who would forge a lie may sit at his own fireside and do it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#39. Some enemies are part and parcel of our lives, we cannot destroy them without risking our own survival
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#40. I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy's intentions.
Thucydides
#41. Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.
William Pennington
#43. The great thing about the British SAS was that they viewed war the same way the American Special Operations community did. You didn't win by thinking inside the box and following someone else's rules. You turned the box upside down and made your own rules, no matter what the enemy threw at you.
Brad Thor
#44. Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.
George Orwell
#45. The Animals were their own worst enemy. The Animals were a band that couldn't live up to their name. I was the singer in the band and as long as I was enjoying myself I would keep on working with the band. But it got to be rather nasty once the big money showed up - things started to turn toxic.
Eric Burdon
#46. When I was younger and inexperienced, I was a very animated pitcher. I pitched with a lot of adrenaline. I was my own worst enemy when things weren't gong well.
Randy Johnson
#47. You need to be your own cheer squad not your own worst enemy.
Miya Yamanouchi
#48. Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.
Guy Verhofstadt
#49. The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest possible speed.
Giulio Douhet
#50. To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the
opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
Sun Tzu
#52. You're your own worst enemy, Marta always said to me. You don't need anyone to torment you because you do it to yourself.
James Patterson
#53. He's your enemy, Donald!'
'He most certainly is not,' said Trefusis. 'Not unless I say so. He may dearly want to be my enemy, he may beg on bended knee for open hostility of the most violent kind, but it takes two to tangle. I choose my own enemies.
Stephen Fry
#54. A man hates his enemy because he hates his own hate.
Elie Wiesel
#55. The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.
Saul Alinsky
#56. To overcome of our enemies we must have our own socialist militarism. We must carry along with us 90 million out of the 100 million of Soviet Russia's population. As for the rest, we have nothing to say to them. They must be annihilated.
Grigory Zinoviev
#57. The penetrating brilliance of swords
Wielded by followers of the Way
Strikes at the evil enemy
Lurking deep within
Their own souls and bodies.
Morihei Ueshiba
#58. I am my own worst enemy
I only feel beautiful when I am holding my son
Always expect the worst, that way you're never let down
Bill Norris
#59. You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.
Lisa Kleypas
#60. Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy!
Tae Yun Kim
#61. The Americans have surrounded our country with military bases and threatened us with nuclear weapons, and now they will learn just what it feels like to have enemy missiles pointed at you; we'd be doing nothing more than giving them a little of their own medicine.
Nikita Khrushchev
#62. Women have been ignored but have been their own worse enemy
Nina Stibbe
#63. American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.
Elena Kagan
#64. The heretic is the one who speaks against the community from a place within its territory. He is the enemy within. The heathen, by contrast, is safely behind the walls, excluded by his own invincible arrogance.
Roger Scruton
#65. You must know your enemy to beat him at his own game, but be ready as well for the ultimate sacrifice, for nobody comes out of hell without a scratch.
Robin Sacredfire
#66. Really, Matt. You're your own worst enemy.
That's a strange thing to say to someone with a serious mental disease. Of course I'm my own worst enemy. That's the whole problem.
Nathan Filer
#67. It is wrong to make anyone into an enemy; it is wrong to scare the people of one's own country with that enemy and try to rally some allies on that basis.
Vladimir Putin
#68. 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
#69. It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies.
Bertrand Russell
#70. The ultimate enemy of Democracy is not the drug dealer of the crooked politician or the crazed skinhead. The ultimate enemy is the New King that has become so powerful it can murder its own citizens with impunity.
Gerry Spence
#71. Take warning of the consequences of being nobody's enemy but your own.
Charles Dickens
#72. If you have small-government, traditional values, you may be considered by your own leadership to be an enemy of the state.
Monica Crowley
#73. When she absently worried her bottom lip with one of her adorable little fangs, he sighed.
The Enemy of Old fucking sighed.
Dear gods, it'd finally happened to him.
Happiness.
Then his own fangs sharpened.I will kill anyone who tries to take this feeling away from me.
Kresley Cole
#74. You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.
Daniel Craig
#75. By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man
man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.
Robert A. Heinlein
#76. By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes.
Gautama Buddha
#77. I was so lost, didn't know what to do with myself,
I was my own worst enemy, I was lost and oh I needed help,
Then you came along, and saw what state I was in,
You picked me up, when I was down,
Showed me how to live again.
James Morrison
#78. What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved
what then?
Carl Jung
#79. 15. Hence a wise general makes a point of foraging on the enemy. One cartload of the enemy's provisions is equivalent to twenty of one's own, and likewise a single picul of his provender is equivalent to twenty from one's own store.
Sun Tzu
#80. One foot in Hell, one in Heaven, but there will always be a devil.
Be he your enemy.
Be he your friend.
Be the devil your own soul for fear of the world.
Michelle Horst
#81. Since the demon threat is invisible to mundanes, they must assign the threat to others of their own kind. They place the face of their enemy onto the face of their neighbor, and thus are generations of misery assured.
-Valentine Morgenstern
Cassandra Clare
#82. Like every man I am my own worst enemy, but unlike most men I know too that I am my own saviour.
Henry Miller
#83. The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#84. For the sorry truth is that in this most pragmatic land, the purist is generally his own worst enemy.
Harry Stein
#85. We are partners in our own deception. The lies we tell ourselves. The life we have settled for, when we yearn for the life we wish for. We become our own worst enemy as we yearn for the things we don't have and discredit the gifts we have.
Tony Curl
#86. In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy.
Tom Holt
#88. No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#89. Nothing can touch the Word of God. Not all the powers of earth and hell, men and devils combined, can ever move the Word of God. There it stands, in its own moral glory, spite of all the assaults of the enemy, from age to age. 'For ever, 0 Lord, Thy Word is settled in heaven.'
Charles Henry Mackintosh
#90. That Islam you see on TV does not represent me,
I'm too busy waging jihad against myself,
My own nafs are my enemy.
I'm sorry that Muslim and Muslim lands do not represent Islam,
Our religion is perfect, but we on the other hand ...
Boonaa Mohammed
#92. He'd been a successful soldier, as these things went; he'd generally been on the winning side, and had killed more of the enemy by good if dull tactics than his own men by bad but exciting ones.
Terry Pratchett
#93. The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is loving myself 100%. And that's still a battle. I love myself, but sometimes you can be your own worst enemy. And I think I've been my worst enemy in life, because others haven't been able to do anything to me unless I allowed them to do it.
Mike Epps
#95. It is best to keep one's own state intact; to crush the enemy's state is only second best.
Sun Tzu
#96. Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
Sri Aurobindo
#97. You have given me faith and have grown my faith in Your Word. I don't have faith in my own faith, as if I have accomplished anything myself, but I have faith in You and Your faithfulness to me, which is a shield from the enemy's arrows. Just as You were Abraham's shield
Stormie O'martian
#98. It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness of our convictions.
Learned Hand
#99. Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
Hanoi Hannah
#100. The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
Sun Tzu
