Top 1200 Good Enemy Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.

Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. As long as you stick to good, you'll never have real growth.

Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit so long as your men have strength to follow; for an army routed, if hotly pursued, becomes panic-stricken, and can then be destroyed by half their number. The other rule is, never fight against heavy odds, if by any possible maneuvering you can hurl your own force on only a part, and that the weakest part, of your enemy and crush it. Such tactics will win every time, and a small army may thus destroy a large one in detail, and repeated victory will make it invincible.

You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.

Forgive your enemy, but do not mistake him for a friend.

All I can tell you is that I know the enemy, allies, and troops hear what I say.

Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake.

A cowboy never takes unfair advantage - even of an enemy.

You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance," Domingo said.

Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.

The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his own. His entire being is devoured by one purpose, one thought, one passion - the revolution. Heart and soul, not merely by word but by deed, he has severed every link with the social order and with the entire civilized world; with the laws, good manners, conventions, and morality of that world. He is its merciless enemy and continues to inhabit it with only one purpose - to destroy it.

I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.

Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

Whatsoever is good for God's children they shall have it, for all is theirs to further them to heaven; therefore, if poverty be good, they shall have it; if disgrace be good, they shall have it; if crosses be good, they shall have them; if misery be good, they shall have it; for all is ours, to serve for our greatest good.

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand.

A Warrior of the Light does not accept gifts from his enemy.

That's more than three questions, Max. And sometimes whether someone is your friend or enemy is all in how you look at it. But if you must know, I consider myself your friend, a good friend who loves you very much. No one loves you more than I do, Maximum. Now listen. I ask the questions, not you. You're just here... for the ride. For the incredible, indescribable Maximum Ride.

The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.

If the enemy can keep us occupied, we don't present much opposition.

I'm working at trying to be a Christian and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy?it's serious business. It's not something where you think, Oh, I've got it done. I did it all day, hotdiggety. The truth is, all day long you try to do it, try to be it, and then in the evening if you're honest and have a little courage you look at yourself and say, Hmm. I only blew it eighty-six times. Not bad.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

You probably can't imagine there being a glory in your life, let alone one that the Enemy fears. But remember - things are not what they seem. We are not what we seem. You probably believed that your heart was bad too. I pray that fog of poison gas from the pit of hell is fading away in the wind of God's truth. And there is more. Not only does Christ say to you that your heart is good, he invites you now out of the shadows to unveil your glory. You have a role you never dreamed of having.

Better to have an open enemy, than hidden friends.

Never underestimate the enemy, above all if he is a stupid one and deserves to be killed.

Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.

Never fear your enemy but always respect them

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

Before facing you enemy, you must first face yourself.

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.

I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy.

The great enemy of any totalitarian regime is normalization and trade.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.

A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.

I cannot get any sense of an enemy - only of a disaster.

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans.

People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose.

If you want to be a good shot-blocker, you're going to be a good shot-blocker. It's simple. You can't teach it. You're either good at it, or you're not good at it. If you're good at it, then be really good at it.

There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.

Sound public finances are not the enemy of sustained growth - they are its precondition.

In almost all cases now the police are as much an enemy as the others.

Life creeps slowly upward.... When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood and found that it was good and thereafter made a practice of smiting rivals and enemies with branches of wood, then, and on that day, artificiality may be said to have begun. Then, and on that day, was begun a revolution destined to change the history of life. Then, and on that day, was laid the cornerstone of that most tremendous of artifices, CIVILIZATION!

Who’s gonna make you happy when you’re your own worst enemy?

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.

I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.

A proud monk needs no demon. He has turned into one, an enemy to himself.

We share a common enemy, but does that make us friends?

Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

Shun an angry man for a moment-your enemy forever.

Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends.

The dogmatist within is always worse than the enemy without.