Top 260 Adversary Quotes & Sayings

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary

The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls is the relative size of your force at the point where you join in battle. You can strike with the few and be many if you strike your adversary in his gaps. Seek out places where the defense is not strict, the place not tightly guarded, the generals weak, the troops disorderly, the supplies are scarce and the forces are isolated.

Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.

A natural adversary is a customer service representative.

My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.

You negotiate in bad faith if you do not forgive your adversary.

THIS IS THE WAY OF PEACE: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love... My simple peace message is adequate - really just the message that the way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things. One in harmony with God's law of love has more strength than an army, for one need not subdue an adversary; an adversary can be transformed.

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

Christian love, which applies to all, even to one's enemies, is the worst adversary of Communism.

Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

In golf, a player can step and mar the line of his adversary's putt. A player can also hit his adversary or his caddie intentionally with his ball and claim the hole - but it isn't usually done.

Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.

Anthony Weiner is a crafty and worthy adversary - an unrepentant lefty who is usually a savvy media player.

We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression.

Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.

It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary.

A total commitment to anxiously serve the Lord and others is the surest way to overcome temptations of the adversary.

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic. No reason at all. I do not know one person in the National Front who committed even the most minor hostile act against a Jewish person or Jewish property. As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior. There just are people, organizations, that need an adversary and they want the public to believe that this adversary is dangerous.

The worm of paranoia begins to eat into even the hardest adversary.

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party.

They [Russians] are the adversary, they - we`re the adversary they love to hate.

For a strong adversary (corps) the opposition of twenty-four squadrons and twelve guns ought not to have appeared very serious, but in war the psychological factors are often decisive. An adversary who feels inferior is in reality so.

No one is fit to encounter an adversary's case successfully unless he can make it for a moment his own, unless he can put it more forcibly than the adversary could put it for himself, and take account not only of what the adversary says, but also the best he MIGHT say, if only he had chanced to think it.

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.

The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

You have to work more than your adversary.

It is narual for enemy to attack on the weaker side of the adversary.

That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

An exhausted man easily falls prey to the adversary.

We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.

Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.

The surest way to deter adversary aggression is to fully prepare for war.

We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture.

As sisters in Zion, we can be obstacles to the adversary's conspiracy against families and virtue.

Hillary Clinton hates Julian Assange, she is just an adversary of internet freedom.

May you constantly nourish your testimonies of the gospel that they will be a protection to you against the buffetings of the adversary.

I did what all good Iriah dads do when faced with a worthy adversary..I said Ask your mother!!

At CrowdStrike, we look for traces of the adversary and try to find out who the adversary is, what they are after, and what their tradecraft is. We also disseminate that information to enable collective action.

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

The human mind, in taking us down the path of technocracy, has become the adversary of life itself and collaterally the adversary of the human soul.

God has not given us the spirit of fear. That comes from the adversary.

Russia is an adversary not just of the United States but of freedom-loving people everywhere.

Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles.

My adversary is the world of finance.

Only way to eliminate the element of surprise is to know yourself and now your adversary.

Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

Too timid to talk back, I shot my adversary.

I love playing a character who has an adversary she can go one-on-one with.

For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.

Nonviolence seeks to ‘win’ not by destroying or even by humiliating the adversary, but by convincing [the adversary] that there is a higher and more certain common good than can be attained by bombs and blood. Nonviolence, ideally speaking, does not try to overcome the adversary by winning over [them], but to turn [them] from an adversary into a collaborator by winning [them] over.

Do you young people want a sure way to eliminate the influence of the adversary in your life? Immerse yourself in searching for your ancestors, prepare their names for the sacred vicarious ordinances available in the temple, and then go to the temple to stand as proxy for them to receive the ordinances of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost. As you grow older, you will be able to participate in receiving the other ordinances as well. I can think of no greater protection from the influence of the adversary in your life

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.

The Russians are clearly a big adversary, and they demonstrated it by trying to mess around in our election.