Top 73 Worst Enemies Quotes
#1. Most of us are at war with ourselves, are our own worst enemies. We expect a great deal of ourselves, yet we do not put ourselves in a condition to achieve great things. We are either too indulgent to our bodies, or we are not indulgent enough.
Orison Swett Marden
#2. We are women. We believe in love and goodness and the kindness of others above all things. We are hard-wired to blame ourselves for things that other people do, even the bad, evil ones. That's why we're so good at compassion. It's also why we're our own worst enemies sometimes.
Elle Casey
#4. Friends are the real superheroes. They battle our worst enemies - loneliness, grief, anxiety, depression, fear, and doubt - every time they come around.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#6. Liberal Catholics are the worst enemies of the Church.
Pope Pius IX
#8. Know what they say about abominations," Caldenia said. "We make the worst enemies." "Was that a threat?"" Dagorkun's eyes narrowed. "A warning." Caldenia folded her hands on her lap. "There is only one time to make threats: when you intend to negotiate. I do not.
Ilona Andrews
#9. We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.
Roderick Thorp
#10. Most of us are ready to greet our worst enemies like long-lost brothers if we think they can show us a good time, if we think they can do us any good or if we even reach the conclusion that being polite will get us just as far and help us live longer.
Budd Schulberg
#11. Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt
Graham Greene
#12. The actors of the era knew they were excommunicated. Entering the profession amounted to choosing Hell. And the Church discerned in them her worst enemies.
Albert Camus
#13. The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrants worst enemies.
Claire Wolfe
#14. I think that we're our own worst enemies in a lot of ways, especially when it comes to doing work where you're criticized a lot or doing work where there's a lot of hater directed at you; and to not constantly second-guess yourself.
Jessica Valenti
#15. The idea that women are 'our own worst enemies' forces us to admit that we don't have the power to be, even if we wanted too.
Gloria Steinem
#16. Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies.
Diana Gabaldon
#17. We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
Ed Koch
#18. You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
Jeannette Walls
#19. Is it just possible,' he sighed, 'that the most vigorous and obldest idealists have been the worst enemies of human progress instead of its greatest creators?
Sinclair Lewis
#20. Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively.
Rene Dubos
#21. Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?
Gustave Le Bon
#23. Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility.
Charles Koch
#24. We seem to be our own worst enemies. We should require critical U.S. infrastructure to remain in U.S. hands.
Duncan Hunter
#25. Fate didn't stand in the way. Rather, they themselves were their own worst enemies.
Michael R. Fletcher
#26. Best friends make the worst enemies, they know all your secrets and how to hurt you the most.
Alyson Noel
#27. Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth, as one of the worst enemies of mankind.
Lydia M. Child
#28. Funny, that we always told stories with wolves and beasts and demons as villains, but in real life it seemed the humans were always the worst enemies. You could be your own villain.
Liesl Shurtliff
#29. Actors are their own worst enemies. They quite often will get in their own way, and I have to be encouraged, endlessly, not to get in my own way.
James Purefoy
#30. Why is it that the best terrorists, the worst enemies, and the most dangerous people in the world always seem to be schooled in the North American Confederation?" Weston asked.
Evan Currie
#31. We're our own worst enemies a lot of the time, but I still blame men.
Janeane Garofalo
#32. Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
Tacitus
#33. Whiskey and Beer are a man's worst enemies... but the man that runs away from his enemies is a coward!
Zeca Pagodinho
#34. Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
Charles Spurgeon
#35. In fact, sometimes our strongest-held beliefs can become our worst enemies.
Romina Russell
#37. American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.
Elena Kagan
#38. Persons with a talent who never practice excellence are the worst enemies of themselves.
Nelly Mazloum
#39. Some of the worst enemies of the man who is seeking for the truth will appeal to him as old friends in whom he has had great confidence.
Joseph French Johnson
#40. May we always see ourselves accurately as helpless sinners in need of grace, so that we never move beyond the cross or consider ourselves better than our worst enemies.
Barbara R. Duguid
#41. Every leader will hit a series of plateaus in their lives. The key is not to say there, because settling on a plateau can easily lead to an elongated season of comfort. Being comfortable is one of the leader's worst enemies
Gary Rohrmayer
#42. These Filipinos will be your worst enemies if you commit the imprudence of attacking the Spaniards without the necessary preparation.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#43. True believers, comrade Gadin said, make the worst enemies if and when they become disillusioned with communism, or they finally see through the deception.
Tomas Schuman
#44. Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates recently, didn't do that because they woke up with a positive self image that morning and then felt like slaughtering their friends.
Tori Amos
#45. Sometimes we are our own worst enemies. One must learn to be discerning with one's own thoughts. We must be able to decipher the truth versus the lies of our minds. Otherwise, we become enslaved to the shackles of struggle we place on our own ankles.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#46. Christian love, which applies to all, even to one's enemies, is the worst adversary of Communism.
Nikolai Bukharin
#47. I could be your worst enemy. But i would rather have friends then enemies, and i go to great length to make that the case. There's much more reward in having friends.
Jared Leto
#48. We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#49. We are our own worst enemy and make no mistake we are destroying ourselves.
Bryant McGill
#51. A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.
Robert Jordan
#52. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.
Napoleon Hill
#53. 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
#54. Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.
Robert Greene
#55. Are these soldiers really our enemy, or only the worst reflection of our own selves? ... We made them. We have to unmake them, not just defeat or kill them.
Kate Elliott
#56. I nod and wave to my enemies like Miss America, pausing to blow kisses at the worst of them as I work my way across the cafeteria with a plate loaded with horridly healthy food.
Eliza Crewe
#57. Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.
Bruno Jasienski
#58. Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies.
[Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
Tacitus
#59. My strength: My enemies, they keep me strong enough to face the worst - MB
Bharath Mamidoju
#60. Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don't be your own worst enemy!
Bryant McGill
#61. The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves.
Rudy Giuliani
#62. Unless we are thoroughly convinced that without Christ we are under the eternal curse of God, as the worst of His enemies, we shall never flee to Him for refuge.
John Owen
#63. It's one thing when you lose a friend or when your friends become enemies, but it's the worst when friends become strangers,
Hayley Williams
#65. The tent in which she first met him had smelled of blood, of the death she did not understand, and still she had thought of it all as a game. She had promised him the world. His flesh in the flesh of his enemies. And much too late had she realized what he had sown in her. Love. Worst of all poisons.
Cornelia Funke
#66. I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.
Roy Cohn
#67. 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
#68. Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy
Bob Marley
#69. You will find that our enemies are our own kin. It is they who betray us. So learn this most important lesson-in the end, our worst enemy is ourselves
F. Sionil Jose
#70. 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
#72. I tell you, love your enemies. Help and give without expecting a return. You'll never - I promise - regret it. Live out this God-created identity the way our Father lives toward us, generously and graciously, even when we're at our worst. Our Father is kind; you be kind.
Eugene H. Peterson
#73. Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
Frank Sinatra
