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Enemy

(noun) Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else. Example: "Crush the enemy!"

66 QUOTES
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
— Abraham Lincoln
"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world."
— Helen Keller
"There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy."
— George Washington
"Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm."
— Sun Tzu
"Be where your enemy is not."
— Sun Tzu
"There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose."
— Sun Tzu
"Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories."
— Sun Tzu
"Your worst enemy cannot hurt you as much as your own thoughts, when you haven’t mastered them."
— Gautama Buddha
"Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
— Sun Tzu
"He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious."
— Sun Tzu
"My only enemy is time."
— Charlie Chaplin
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