You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you. — Lisa Kleypas
You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself. — English Proverbs
From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside. — Dalai Lama
My Enemies Quotes
I have to keep law and order and it means that I have to kill my enemies before they kill me. — Idi Amin
What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison me is to provide me with seclusion. To send me into exile is to send me away in the Path of Allah. And to kill me is to make me a martyr. — Ibn Taymiyyah
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. — Abraham Lincoln
I love God, I love everybody else around me as myself, and I love my enemy. — Kevin Gates
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate. — Sigmund Freud
Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While discretion obliges me to remain silent, my duty compels me to prevent them from doing any more harm. — Toussaint Louverture
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.
When things are not going right, there are satanic forces in
operation. What is my solution? To rebuke the condition of sin, death, disease, or
whatever it is. I can pray in the Holy Ghost, and that prayer is effectual to bring
down every stronghold of the enemy. — Smith Wigglesworth
I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail. — Sojourner Truth
The enemy never sees the backs of my Texans! — Robert E. Lee
Losing is not my enemy..fear of losing is my enemy. — Rafael Nadal
Enemy Quotes
The truth is the greatest enemy of the State. — Unknown Author
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. — Winston Churchill
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. — John F. Kennedy
Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your own two ears.
Man's highest joy is in victory: to conquer one's enemies; to pursue them; to deprive them of their possessions; to make their beloved weep; to ride on their horses; and to embrace their wives and daughters. — Genghis Khan
Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. — Napoleon Bonaparte
It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies. — Che Guevara
Worst Quotes
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst! — James Connolly
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. — English Proverbs
Always dress like you're going to see your worst enemy.
The worst thing a good girl could do to you is break your heart. — ASAP Rocky
What’s the worst thing I've stolen? Probably little pieces of other people’s lives. Where I’ve either wasted their time or hurt them in some way. That’s the worst thing you can steal, the time of other people. You just can’t get that back. — Chester Bennington
On a mission your worst enemy is idle time. — Nipsey Hussle
Sometimes my worst day - one filled with pain and suffering - in the eyes of God, is my best day if I've born it cheerfully and I've born it with love. — Mother Angelica
If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best. — Marilyn Monroe
Sometimes I have to remind myself, that on my worst day I live like somebody on their greatest — Meek Mill
The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough. — Nina Simone
Worst Day Quotes
Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace. — Jerry Bridges
One of my mom's best lines is... You're not training to be the best in the world, you're training to be the best in the world on your worst day. — Ronda Rousey
Winning is about how you perform on your worst days, not just your best days. — Patrick Bet-David
Michael Jordan on his worst day is ten times better than Kobe Bryant on his best day. — Reggie Miller
If you are unwilling to fight through the worst days of your life, you do not deserve the best days of your life. — Chatri Sityodtong
Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice. — Ani DiFranco
I train to be the best in the world on my worst day — Ronda Rousey
The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing. — Thomas Jefferson
September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for. — Lamar Alexander
Love on its worst day conquers hate on its best day. — Matshona Dhliwayo
As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our own company, a quality that extroverts often envy. We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves. — Laurie Helgoe
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride. — Buddha
I count myself really fortunate that I have some lifelong friends. The best thing about a friend is when you are being your own worst enemy a friend can help snap you out of it. — Amy Grant
I am still bullied occasionally. However, none of my current bullies really exist. They’re all in my head. Be your own best friend instead of your worst enemy. — Abiola Abrams
I am my own best friend and my own worst enemy. Before coming here, I was thinking I don't deserve it, that i wouldn't be able to meet your expectations, and that you had probably chosen the wrong candidate. At the same time, my heart was telling me that i was being rewarded because i hadn't given up and had fought to the end — Paulo Coelho
The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is loving myself 100%. And that's still a battle. I love myself, but sometimes you can be your own worst enemy. And I think I've been my worst enemy in life, because others haven't been able to do anything to me unless I allowed them to do it. — Mike Epps
Be indifferent if you lose your short term clients, remember they are your own worst enemy — Seth Klarman
Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don't be your own worst enemy! — Bryant H. McGill
I'm always my own worst enemy. I'm like, 'Every show's my last.' I'm a lunatic, but that's my own issue. If I had time, I'd spend it in therapy, let's be honest. But I don't, so I'll remain crazy. But the truth is, you want it to be good for the audience, TV Guide. Because a lot of times as a producer you put so much into your shows and when you see the network putting stuff into it too, it gets exciting. — SallyAnn Salsano
Fear to fear. Be afraid to be afraid. Your worst enemy is within your own bosom. Get to your knees and cry for help, and then rise up saying, 'I will trust, and not be afraid.' — Charles Spurgeon
Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy! — Tae Yun Kim
By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes. — Buddha
But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes? — Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies. Not everything written is worth reading. Not everything said is worth listening to. Not everything recorded is worth watching. Sometimes consuming your own thoughts is better than trying to consume everyone else’s. — Alex Hormozi
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