Top 1200 Good Enemy Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Better a good enemy than a bad friend.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

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

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.

The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking.

What good is a friend if you cant make an enemy of him?

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.

Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

If you wish to feign confusion in order to lure the enemy on, you must first have perfect discipline; if you wish to display timidity in order to entrap the enemy, you must have extreme courage; if you wish to parade your weakness in order to make the enemy over-confident, you must have exceeding strength.

"The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good;" and without claiming for an instant that title of good for my book, I do not doubt that many a good book has remained unwritten, or, perhaps, being written, has remained unpublished, because there floated before the mind's eye of the author, or possible author, the ideal of a better or a best, which has put him out of all conceit with his good.

[Donald trump] is moved from the enemy being Barack Obama, now gone, fading is Hillary Clinton, and there is no question he's chosen the enemy.

No particular race is the enemy. Ignorance is the enemy.

Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.

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.

When it comes to Iran and ISIS, the enemy of your enemy is your enemy!

If you aren’t really careful, 'The Good Enough' can become the enemy of 'The Best.'

The Fed is the biggest enemy of this economy. In fact, Ben Bernanke, as far as I'm concerned, he's public enemy No. 1. We're never going to have a recovery while this guy's in charge.

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.

To a friend, achievement is good news, to an enemy, it's bragging.

There must be no bloodshed, no violence unless it is defensive, no coercion! We must do it our way and our way alone! To do otherwise is to betray centuries of hardship and struggle.Above all else Kyfho. Forget Kyfho in your pursuit of victory over the enemy, and you will become the enemy...worse than the enemy because he doesn't know he is capable of anything better.

The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

Good flying never killed an enemy yet.

To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.

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.

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.

While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is taking away from its other businesses.

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.

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.

Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person. When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people, but against the tendency to invade, to dominate, and to exploit.

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.

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.

If an enemy has alliances, the problem is grave and the enemy's position strong; if he has no alliances, the problem is minor and the enemy's position weak.

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.

The Enemy of the best is the good. If you're always settling with what's good, you'll never be the best.

And that is how we intend to destroy the enemy!" The superior shakes his head wearily. "Young man, the Soviets are our adversary. The Navy is the enemy.

A good man can never be the enemy of someone; if he did, he ain't a good man!

The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.

I've grown tired of people impersonating world-weary cynics by intoning the old saying 'My enemy's enemy is my friend' as if it were a new-minted witticism.

...Jesus did not advocate non-violence merely as a technique for outwitting the enemy, but as a just means of opposing the enemy in such a way as to hold open the possibility of the enemy's becoming just as well. Both sides must win. We are summoned to pray for our enemies' transformation, and to respond to ill-treatment with a love that not only is godly but also, I am convinced, can only be found in God.

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Good behavior wins even an enemy.

The enemy of good television is boredom and predictability.

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.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.

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

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein.

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.

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.

Abortionists are not the enemy. Our enemy is sin.

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

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

Beware not the enemy from 'without' but the enemy from 'within'.

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

Having an enemy that is visible out in the daylight is a good thing.