In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. — J. Paul Getty
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.
Own Worst Enemy Quotes
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
Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy. — Theodore Roosevelt
The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love. — Alexander Pope
Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your own two ears.
We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies. — Roderick Thorp
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
The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect. — Uell Stanley Andersen
Always dress like you're going to see your worst enemy.
I control my life and I have never let success run away with me - I've taken it and ran. And the only thing that could threaten my stability is me - I'm my only threat and my own worst enemy. Beyond that, I don't feel successful. I'm nowhere near where I plan to be as far as my goals. — Chaka Khan
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
Get out of your own way. Often, we're our own worst enemy when working towards our goals. — Robert Kiyosaki
I'm My Own Worst Enemy Quotes
When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy. — Ronnie Wood
In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy. — Tom Holt
I don't play by those rules; I'm my own worst enemy sometimes. There's something in me that has to go against the grain. You know, I don't like to be a dead fish, swimming with all the other dead fish, I like to go upstream sometimes, against the flow. — Ritchie Blackmore
I'm my own worst enemy sometimes when I pick projects. — Kim Basinger
Your Own Worst Enemy Quotes
Who’s gonna make you happy when you’re your own worst enemy? — Matisyahu
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
Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears. — Laird Hamilton
I think one important thing that happens in the studio is accepting yourself as the enemy and painting from that point of view. So instead of pointing the finger outward and passing judgment, instead, you start with yourself as your own worst enemy. — Lisa Yuskavage
If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy. — Jay Maisel
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
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
Self-mastery is the challenge of transforming yourself from own worst enemy into your greatest ally. — Wes Fesler
A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself. — Finley Peter Dunne
I Am My Worst Enemy Quotes
I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity. — Dean Koontz
I am allergic highly to the sun; that's my worst enemy. — Trick Daddy
I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, Youve got everything going for you right now, and I say, Oh yes, but! Which is not a good way to be. — Tamsin Egerton
I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy. — Chuck Palahniuk
Why is failure the first thing I think of when I find myself in this sort of situation? Why can't I just enjoy myself? But if you have to ask the question, then you know you're lost: self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy. Already I'm wondering whether she's as aware of my erection as I am. — Nick Hornby
My Own Worst Enemy Quotes
When I was younger and inexperienced, I was a very animated pitcher. I pitched with a lot of adrenaline. I was my own worst enemy when things weren't gong well. — Randy Johnson
Actors are their own worst enemies. They quite often will get in their own way, and I have to be encouraged, endlessly, not to get in my own way. — James Purefoy
I was my own worst enemy in my debut. Not one player tested my mechanics. — Graham Taylor
I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you. — Taylor Dane
By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes. — Buddha
I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves. — Roy Cohn
Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds; it is a fallacy that must be exposed: War is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst. — Carl von Clausewitz
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. — Sylvia Plath
Liberal Catholics are the worst enemies of the Church. — Pope Pius IX
Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it? — Gustave Le Bon
Your mind . . . can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it's your choice to make. — Demi Lovato
You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that. — Jeannette Walls
A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies. — William Wrigley Jr.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. — Helen Keller
...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of the human population: the human flood. The worst enemy of life is too much life: the excess of human life. — Pentti Linkola
Persons with a talent who never practice excellence are the worst enemies of themselves. — Nelly Mazloum
Let the enemy rage at the gate; let him knock, pound, scream, howl; let him do his worst. We know for certain that he cannot enter our soul except by the door of our consent. — Saint Francis de Sales
If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won’t find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. (99) — Swami Satchidananda
The old saying is: 'Time off is a wrestler's worst enemy.' — Ric Flair
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. — Sylvia Plath
Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn. — Mike Tyson
The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion and instinct cloud our strategic vision when there is no time for proper evaluation. — Garry Kasparov
Christian love, which applies to all, even to one's enemies, is the worst adversary of Communism. — Nikolai Bukharin
Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity. — Henry Ford
Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy. — Whitney Houston
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom. — George Orwell
Always dress like you're going to see your worst enemy. — Kimora Lee Simmons
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