Top 1200 Defeating The Enemy Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.

Do not be too quick to assume your enemy is a savage just because he is your enemy. Perhaps he is your enemy because he thinks you are a savage. Or perhaps he is afraid of you because he feels that you are afraid of him. And perhaps if he believed you are capable of loving him he would no longer be your enemy.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.

Its about not letting the internal enemy, the real enemy, have his way because the more he does the stronger he becomes. The films about the devastating results that can manifest from the internal enemy being unbridled and allowed to unleash chaos.

Find what strength you have to terrorize your enemy and the enemy of God.

It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.

The loss of any army is always caused by underestimating the enemy. Therefore gather information and watch the enemy carefully.

It is my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence. The only safe way to overcome an enemy is to make of that enemy a friend.

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. If the enemy's troops march up angrily and remain facing ours for a long time without either joining battle or removing demands, the situation is one that requires great vigilance and circumspection. To begin by bluster, but afterward to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.

Anything God does, the enemy tries to counterfeit. We have to be on guard against the enemy!

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.

As Americans we must always remember that we all have a common enemy, an enemy that is dangerous, powerful, and relentless. I refer, of course, to the federal government.

Unlike an external enemy, the inner enemy cannot regroup and launch a comeback once it has been destroyed from within.

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

We must be certain that we all realize that our enemy is not an enemy that is located in one single place. There are terrorist cells all around the globe.

I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.

You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies fail to understand what I just said.

There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.

However, it has long been said that "my enemy's enemy is my friend.

What do we mean by the defeat of the enemy? Simply the destruction of his forces, whether by death, injury, or any other means-either completely or enough to make him stop fighting. . . . The complete or partial destruction of the enemy must be regarded as the sole object of all engagements. . . . Direct annihilation of the enemy's forces must always be the dominant consideration.

A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.

Sadly the very thing that strikes us as obvious always defeats our thinking about it in more penetrating ways: just as the Romans said that "the good is the enemy of the better," so too "the self-evident is the enemy of the very process of clarification or understanding," not to mention the enemy of the "transcendent or ultimate."

The enemy of the modern woman is not women who like fashion or are writing about it. The enemy is stereotypes that come from all places and that tell you to be one way or the other. The enemy is really real sexist people, like Todd Akin, and people who are violent against women physically or sexually.

If I wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, I must not fix my mind on that alone, but allow for the possibility of the enemy also doing some harm to me... If I wish to extricate myself from a dangerous position, I must consider not only the enemy's ability to injure me, but also my own ability to gain an advantage over the enemy.

Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy.

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.

No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.

Curiously, many Democrats have acceded to Clintonism not because of their cold practicality and political professionalism, but because the Clintons are the sworn enemy of the right. The Clintons, in other words, while hardly being left, have been defined as the opposite of being right - the enemy of my enemy being my friend.

The enemy is stupid: he believes that the enemy is us, even though it's him!

If you have an enemy, you first have to listen - whether he really is an enemy or just speaks in a different language

Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.

Mainstream media is the enemy... but now it's time to act on the enemy before they do a false flag.

In Vietnam, we took a hill and defeated the enemy; then we retreated and let the enemy take over.

To effectively create the image of an enemy you have to show first of all that the enemy is extremely dangerous, but on the other hand less than human.

An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy.

If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism.

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

Hate is your enemy; you must defeat it! Anger is your enemy; you must defeat it! Violence is your enemy; you must defeat it! Death is your enemy; you must defeat it! Know well your real enemies!

But when you meet with the enemy and genuinely try to understand his or her perspective, you lose the enemy as a political tool. And that's the eternal obstacle.

How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for himself, as his mark of distinction; he can endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to honor! In contrast to this, picture "the enemy" as the man of ressentiment conceives him--and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived "the evil enemy," "the Evil One," and this in fact is his basic concept, from which he then evolves, as an afterthought and pendant, a "good one"--himself!

Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.

It's about not letting the internal enemy, the real enemy, have his way because the more he does the stronger he becomes. The film's about the devastating results that can manifest from the internal enemy being unbridled and allowed to unleash chaos.

When cancer first came into my life, people all around me treated it as the enemy. I was told I had to join the medical team and we'd fight together to defeat it. This was the wrong thing to say to someone who was the last one to be picked for any team. I was much happier sitting on the sidelines and encouraging the other players. I was totally unskilled at defeating anything. So I secretly went my own way and decided that I was free to choose the meaning of the healing experience. I decided I would develop a friendly relationship with the cancer, which was something I was good at.

The public interest is not always the same as the national interest. Going to war with people who are not our enemy in places that are not a threat doesn't make us safe, and that applies whether it's in Iraq or on the Internet. The Internet is not the enemy. Our economy is not the enemy.

General Napoleon says that 'Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.' Well, I suggest doing the opposite: Interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Don't be opportunist; don't benefit from the weakness of your enemy! Be just even to your enemy! Try to find a way to defeat him without harming him; prove to be as intelligent as to find such a way! Only then, your victory will be meaningful and honourable!

It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Just because you're the enemy of my enemy don't mean you're my friend, Han thought.

I am the Haitian flag. He who is my enemy is the enemy of the fatherland.

It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.

[Commercial] radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do with them.

I like to address the fears of my culture. I believe it`s good to face the enemy, for the enemy is fear.

Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. ...The real enemy then is humanity itself.

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

You must never believe that the enemy does not know how to conduct his own affairs. Indeed, if you want to be deceived less and want to bear less danger, the more the enemy is weak or the less the enemy is cautious, so much more must you esteem him.

The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

We are in a conflict, whether we like it or not. I think we have to identify the enemy and call it by its name. And the enemy is an ideology rooted in militant Islam.