I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.

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

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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

Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.

In the End we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

Don’t explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

The enemy is only a pretext to test our strength.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

A man cannot speak to his son but as a father, to his wife but as a husband, to his enemy but upon terms, whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

Better is the enemy of good.

It is lamentable that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh, there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself your victory will not stand in doubt, if you now Heaven and you know Earth you may make your victory complete.

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

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.

If ignorant, both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.

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

If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

In taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over he is superior.

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

It is a man's own mind not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

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.

Never yield to force, never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Self-pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to it we can never do anything wise in this world.

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression, for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact, to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles criminals enemies or capitalists for the same reasons.

Foe means enemy. Now will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time and we get mad at them? That's part of the normal diplomatic relations.

Seek Love in the pity of others' woe, In the gentle relief of another's care, In the darkness of night and the winter's snow, In the naked and outcast seek Love there!

An excellent man, he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

No enemy is worse than bad advice.

When we turn to one another for counsel, we reduce the number of our enemies.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

If there be no enemy, there's no fight. If no fight, no victory, and if no victory there is no crown.

If you want to make peace with your enemy you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

When I hear music I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times and to the latest.

In all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

A man who was completely innocent offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.

No, I'm no enemy to learning, it hurts not me.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes, there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Love thine enemies because they are the instruments to your destiny.

No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account.

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

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

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success.

Desire is the worst enemy, it ruins many a human life. Desire, when fulfilled, breeds further desire.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

Go up close to your friend but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action, or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources, far greater that what we need in the attack.

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

Know your enemy and know yourself, and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

It is certain in any case that ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy, whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy, profit from folly rather than participate in it.

I tell thee be not rash, a golden bridge Is for a flying enemy.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us, our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves, than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.

Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

What man defy the devil. Consider he's an enemy to mankind.

It will have blood they say, blood will have blood.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy to accomplish our will.

Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him, except that he has bred sorrows for himself and furnishes laughter for his enemies.