Top 83 Your Own Enemy Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. You have to reach out to your inner-abuser and make peace. You can't live your life as your own worst enemy!
Bryant McGill
#4. After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.
Tom Hooper
#5. Get out of your own way. Often, we're our own worst enemy when working towards our goals.
Robert Kiyosaki
#6. 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
#7. When he [Christ] says 'Forgive your enemies', it is not for the sake of the enemy but for one's own sake that he says so, and because Love is more beautiful than Hate.
Oscar Wilde
#8. Fate didn't stand in the way. Rather, they themselves were their own worst enemies.
Michael R. Fletcher
#9. If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won't find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. (99)
Swami Satchidananda
#10. 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
#11. Air power and military are meant to fight the enemy and not your own citizens ... How do you differentiate a Maoist? ... It will create a civil war-like situation.
Kishore Chandra Deo
#12. Some friendships are formed by a commonality of interests and ideas: you both love judo or camping or making your own sausage. Other friendships are forged in alliance against a common enemy.
David Sedaris
#13. Don't underestimate your own triumphs. Leave it to the enemy.
# Krishn
Sweety Shinde
#14. An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
Akio Morita
#15. By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes.
Gautama Buddha
#16. There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.
Emmeline Pankhurst
#17. You must remember your God is sovereign and all things come to pass by his own design. The hardest thing I have seen humans struggle with in trusting that whatever happens, no matter what the enemy sends your way, your God is still God, and he desires only good for you and your loved ones." Emily
Jen Gentry
#18. In war you see your own troubles; those of the enemy you cannot see. You must show confidence.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#19. If you have small-government, traditional values, you may be considered by your own leadership to be an enemy of the state.
Monica Crowley
#20. Don't attempt to fight the enemy in your own strength. You will experience burnout, and you will fail. Don't even think about it! The key is to engage in spiritual warfare God's way. And that is by resting in him and fighting from victory, not for victory!
Pedro Okoro
#21. Take warning of the consequences of being nobody's enemy but your own.
Charles Dickens
#22. If you have to fight old enemies, you should do it with your own old soldiers.
Marius C.
#23. Fear not, too much, an open enemy; He is consistent
always at his post; But watchful be of him who holds the key Of your own heart, and flatters you the most.
Andrew Jackson Downing
#25. Be indifferent if you lose your short term clients, remember they are your own worst enemy
Seth Klarman
#26. You are your own best friend or worst enemy ... choose wisely!
Timothy Pina
#27. If you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use too much; you'll save lives, not only your own, but the enemy's too.
Curtis LeMay
#28. Tragedy may hit all of us in one way or another, but fate's not our enemy, Brooke. We are. By locking yourself away from the world, you choose your own mistakes and destroy any chance of ever finding happiness. You cannot control life, but you can chose who you are and what you make of it.
J.C. Reed
#29. If your enemy comes to speak bearing a sword, open your door to him and speak, but keep your own sword at hand. If he comes to you empty-handed, greet him the same way. But if he comes to you bearing gifts, stand on your walls and cast stones down on him.
Tad Williams
#30. Your worst enemy cannot hurt you as much as your own thoughts, when you haven't mastered them.
Gautama Buddha
#32. When you drop bombs on the enemy, you drop those same bombs on yourself, your own country.
Nhat Hanh
#34. (The enemy) laughs at your attempts to fix your own issues with timely words and hard work - tactics that might affect matters for a moment but can't begin to touch his underhanded, cunning efforts down where the root issues lie.
Priscilla Shirer
#35. It takes great strength to compromise, Shahar. More than it does to threaten and destroy, since you must fight your own pride as well as the enemy.
N.K. Jemisin
#36. When over the enemy's lines never forget your own line of retreat.
Oswald Boelcke
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. For soon the body is discarded, Then what does it feel? A useless log of wood, it lies on the ground, Then what does it know? Your worst enemy cannot harm you As much as your own thoughts, unguarded. But once mastered, No one can help you as much, Not even your father or your mother.
Gautama Buddha
#40. 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
#41. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same. Hatred has to be cultivated as a civic passion. The enemy is the friend of the people. You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery.
Umberto Eco
#42. You are your own worst enemy. So to enjoy life, tell yourself to sit down, shut up, and hang on, because it's going to be one Hell of a ride!
A.M. Sawyer
#43. Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
Desmond Tutu
#44. When it comes to investing, you are your own worst enemy.
Barry Ritholtz
#45. Your enemy is your own self in a different uniform.
Deepak Chopra
#46. I count myself really fortunate that I have some lifelong friends. The best thing about a friend is when you are being your own worst enemy a friend can help snap you out of it.
Amy Grant
#47. I just want to feel better. My own body is my deepest enemy. It wants, it wants, it wants and when it does not get, it cries and cries and I punish it. How can you live in fear of your own body?
Kathleen Glasgow
#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. You need to be your own cheer squad not your own worst enemy.
Miya Yamanouchi
#50. With gifts, you may gather your enemies about you. When giving nothing, even your own family will leave.
Sakya Pandita
#51. Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system.
Anonymous
#52. 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
#53. Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing.
John Bigelow
#54. Fear to fear. Be afraid to be afraid. Your worst enemy is within your own bosom. Get to your knees and cry for help, and then rise up saying, 'I will trust, and not be afraid.'
Charles Spurgeon
#55. Some enemies are part and parcel of our lives, we cannot destroy them without risking our own survival
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#56. If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.
Jay Maisel
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. Although you may spend your life killing, you will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
Nagarjuna
#61. All you have to do is get in a closer walk with God and you'll find your enemies are in your own church.
Leonard Ravenhill
#62. If there was anything the last year had taught her - if there was anything Caleb had taught her, the Metigen War had taught her - it was that perspective was everything.
If you wanted to understand your enemy, you must understand that they were the hero in their own story.
G.S. Jennsen
#63. By creating problems for others you will never able solve your own problem.
When you will try to solve your enemy's problem, your problem will disappear.
Debasish Mridha
#64. The person you call an enemy is an exaggerated aspect of your own shadow self.
Deepak Chopra
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. Neither the stone that made you stumble is your enemy, nor the stone that helped you cross the river is your friend! Universe just lives its own life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#68. Who's gonna make you happy when you're your own worst enemy?
Matisyahu
#69. Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don't be your own worst enemy!
Bryant McGill
#70. 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
#71. Self-mastery is the challenge of transforming yourself from own worst enemy into your greatest ally.
Wes Fesler
#72. Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy!
Tae Yun Kim
#73. Here we come upon a terrible facet of ethically asymmetric warfare: when your enemy has no scruples, your own scruples become another weapon in his hand.
Sam Harris
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.
Fred Durst
#77. Sometimes the biggest enemy you have is down deep in your own soul.
Chris Fabry
#78. In money, and in life, you are very often your own worst enemy. You promise yourself you're going to diet, then eat not one or two French fries but a whole plate. You decide to really commit to saving for retirement, only to wind up with a new pair of shoes in your closet.
Jean Chatzky
#79. 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
#80. Surround yourself with the right people, and realize your own worth. Honestly, there are enough bad people out there in the world - you don't need to be your own worst enemy.
Lucy Hale
#81. 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
#82. If you expect the battle to be insurmountable,
you've met the enemy.
It's you.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
#83. Choose your thoughts and beliefs wisely.
Be your own best friend, and not your enemy.
Maddy Malhotra
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