Top 1200 Good Enemy Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Good is often the enemy of best.

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

Better is the enemy of good.

Sometimes the Good is the enemy of the BEST!

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

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

I can be a good friend, or a bad enemy.

Good is the enemy of great.

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

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

'Perfect' is the enemy of 'good enough'.

The media are very dishonest. In fact, in covering my comments, the dishonest media did not explain that I called the fake news the enemy of the people - the fake news. They dropped off the word "fake." And all of the sudden, the story became, the media is the enemy. They take the word "fake" out, and now I'm saying, oh, no, this is no good. But that's the way they are. So I'm not against the media. I'm not against the press. I don't mind bad stories if I deserve them. And I tell you, I love good stories, but we won't - I don't get too many of them.

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

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

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

Good can be the enemy of great.

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

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

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

The good is the enemy of the best.

The enemy of the "best" is often the "good."

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!

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

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.

I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.

Another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while one's own nation stands for everything that is good and noble. Every action of the enemy is judged by one standard - every action of oneself by another. Even good deeds by the enemy are considered a sign of particular devilishness, meant to deceive us and the world, while our bad deeds are necessary and justified by our noble goals, which they serve.

Disorganizatio n is the enemy of good writing.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

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.

Anger is the real destroyer of our good human qualities; an enemy with a weapon cannot destroy these qualities, but anger can. Anger is our real enemy.

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

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

Good taste is the enemy of creativity.

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

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

The enemy is a very good teacher.

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

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

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

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

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

Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human.

We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the good and the bad, but between the good and the best. So often, the enemy of the best is the good.

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.

It is good to be taught even by an enemy

The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.'

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!

The best is the enemy of the good.

Friend, my enemy, I call you out. You, you, you there with a bad thorn in your side. You there, my friend, with a winning air. Who pawned the lie on me when he looked brassly at my shyest secret. With my whole heart under your hammer. That though I loved him for his faults as much as for his good. My friend were an enemy upon stilts with his head in a cunning cloud. -Dylan Thomas

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

The good is always the enemy of the best.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

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.

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.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

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

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

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