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Quotes about Enemies

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

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

Frank Sinatra
 
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  "Demons frighten us because we set ourselves up to be frightened. We are overly attached to our reputations and possessions. When we love and desire what we should be rejecting, we are in conflict with our true selves.That's when the negative energies catch us and use our weapons against us. Instead of taking up what we have to defend ourselves, we put our swords in the hands of our enemies and make them attack us."

Teresa
 
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

J S Rowling
Source: my scrap book
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Love your enemies is probably the most radical thing Jesus ever said. Unless, of course, one considers the parable of the Samaritan. There the admonition is to let your enemies love you.

Robert Funk
Source: The Once and Future Jesus
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(Of his nemesis, the late former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover)
It's better to have him inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in.

Lyndon Baines Johnson (1808 - 1973)
Source: anecdotage.com and other online quotation databases
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Keep your friends close...and your enemies closer.

Sun Tzu
Source: The Art of War
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Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.

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Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.

Vanna Bonta
 
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Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.

Mao Zedong
 
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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy : American Statesman (35th US president: 1961-63), youngest president
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
 
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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Mark Twain : American writer, pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
 
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We must see that God operates not only in us but in others as well. God also operates in our so-called enemies. But these are not our real enemies. Our real enemies are doubt, fear, anxiety and worry. When we do not cry to perfect others, but only try to perfect our own lives, then we will have joy.

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Sri Chinmoy
 
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Psalm 27

1 The LORD is my light and my salvation;
        whom shall I fear?
        The LORD is the strength of my life;
        of whom shall I be afraid?

2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes,
        came upon me to eat up my flesh,
        they stumbled and fell.


3 Though a host should encamp against me,
        my heart shall not fear:
        though war should rise against me,
        in this will I be confident.


4 One thing have I desired of the LORD,
        that will I seek after;
        that I may dwell in the house of the LORD
        all the days of my life,
        to behold the beauty of the LORD,
         and to inquire in his temple.


5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion:
        in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me;
        he shall set me up upon a rock.


6 And now shall mine head be lifted up
        above mine enemies round about me:
        therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy;
        I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.


7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice:
        have mercy also upon me, and answer me.


8 When thou saidst, Seek ye my face;
        my heart said unto thee,
        Thy face, LORD, will I seek.


9 Hide not thy face far from me;
        put not thy servant away in anger:
        thou hast been my help;
        leave me not, neither forsake me,
        O God of my salvation.


10 When my father and my mother forsake me,
        then the LORD will take me up.


11 Teach me thy way, O LORD,
       and lead me in a plain path,
       because of mine enemies.


12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies:
        for false witnesses are risen up against me,
        and such as breathe out cruelty.


13 I had fainted, unless I had believed
        to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.


14 Wait on the LORD:
        be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart:
        wait, I say, on the LORD.

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The Enemy never stands before you--(s)he always lurks within.

Ami Ahlstedt
Source: Ami Ahlstedt's personal writing
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There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.  For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the laws in their favour; and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had the actual experience of it.

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)
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 Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

Nelson Mandela : South African leader
Nelson Mandela (1918 - )
Source: www.emofree.com/Archives/Archive260.htm
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There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.  Those who are lucky enough to find it ease like water over a stone, onto its fluid contours, and are home.  Some find it in the place of their birth; others may leave a seaside town, parched, and find themselves refreshed in the desert.  There are those born in rolling countryside who are really only at ease in the intense and busy loneliness of the city.  For some, the search is for the imprint of another; a child or a mother, a grandfather or a brother, a lover, a husband, a wife, or a foe.  We may go through our lives happy or unhappy, successful or unfulfilled, loved or unloved, without ever standing cold with the shock of recognition, without ever feeling the agony as the twisted iron in our soul unlocks itself and we slip at last into place.

Josephine Hart
Source: Damage, Page: 1
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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson : American transcendentalist philosopher, essayist & lecturer
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
 
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The chief enemy of creativity is common sense.

Pablo Ruiz Picasso : Spanish painter & founder of cubism
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
 
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The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

Mevlana Jelalu'ddin Rumi : Persian sufi mystic
Mevlana Rumi (1207 - 1273)
Source: Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance
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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy : American Statesman (35th US president: 1961-63), youngest president
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
 
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He who has not forgiven an enemy has never tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741 - 1801)
 
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche : German philosopher who delivered his philosophy "with a hammer"
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
 
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The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche : German philosopher who delivered his philosophy "with a hammer"
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
 
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More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.

Siddhartha Guatama Buddha : Indian mystic, founder of Buddhism
Buddha (563 - 483 BC)
Source: The Dhammapada
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Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.

Yassir Arafat
 
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
 
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On the night of the 10th of May [1940], at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so,I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill : British prime minister during World War II, winner of Nobel Prize for literature 1953
Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Source: The Second World War, vol 1, The Gathering Storm, 1948, p. 526
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The Battle of Britain. . . . The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the was. . . . Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth, last for a thousand years, man will say, "This was their finest hour."

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill : British prime minister during World War II, winner of Nobel Prize for literature 1953
Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Source: quoted in Battles Lost and Won by Hanson W. Baldwin
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