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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you. — Alexander Pope

Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma).
One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa.
Rely on your Self; self-reliance — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

Know thy enemy and know thy self and you will win a hundred battles. — Sun Tzu

We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves. — Watchman Nee

Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved. — Henri Nouwen

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one. — John W. Vessey Jr.

Your enemy is your own self in a different uniform. — Deepak Chopra

Self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy. — Nick Hornby

The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Foolish people inflict pain upon them self which is worse than what an enemy can bring upon. — Thiruvalluvar

Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within. — Thomas Paine

Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world
to an individual or to a nation. — Frank Sinatra

Muslims cannot be defeated by others. We Muslims are not defeated by our enemies, but instead, we are defeated by our own selves. — Sheikh Abdullah

The true soldier knows nothing but war, and the true soldier, for lack of an enemy, attacks himself. — Dan Groat

When food becomes the enemy, every time we lose the fight we not only gain weight, but lose our self-esteem as well. — Jane Fonda

Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy! — Tae Yun Kim

The person you call an enemy is an exaggerated aspect of your own shadow self. — Deepak Chopra

The self is every person's true enemy. — Ding Ling

Self-preservation is an enemy of love. — Roxanna Aliba Kazibwe

Fighting Life Creates an Enemy,
Flowing with Life Creates Harmony. — Cynthia Belmer

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself. — Tim Robbins

If you expect the battle to be insurmountable,
you've met the enemy.
It's you. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition. — James Q. Wilson

At this point, my greatest enemy was myself. Self-doubt can be crushing, and sometimes it is hard to see outside the black bubble. — Bear Grylls

Self-conciousness is the enemy of all creativity. — Ray Bradbury

The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel. — Tullian Tchividjian

They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene. — Marianne Moore

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The enemy uses those things your insecure about. Free yourself and take your power back by being secure in who you are - flaws and all. — Yvonne Pierre

Self importance is man's greatest enemy. — Carlos Castaneda

No one knows your success or failure best than your enemy who pretends to be your greatest friend. — Auliq Ice

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world. — Helen Keller

Your enemy is still yourself. You don't have enemies. They may be self-styled. I have plenty of self-styled enemies. I don't wish them harm. — Goswami Kriyananda

It is good to know one's enemy.
It is better to know one's self. — Max Hawthorne

Invincibility depends on one's self; the enemy's vulnerability on him. — Sun Tzu

Self-conceit is the enemy of progress. — Bion Of Borysthenes

Self-consciousness is the enemy of interestingness. — Malcolm Gladwell

He who has power over himself has power over his greatest enemy. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion. — Stephen King

The false gospel of self-justification is a great enemy of the Christian faith because so many have been misled to believe that it is Christianity. — Gloria Furman

Sometimes, I am my own worst enemy. — Tim McGraw

All my enemies are self-appointed. — Robert A. Heinlein

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. — Ray Bradbury

In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something. — Jet Li

thinking is the enemy of creativity because it's self-conscious. — Sean Patrick

I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself — P.C. Cast

Self-justification is the enemy of repentance. — Spencer W. Kimball

[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

I tell you that victory consists in conquering self. That is the greatest enemy. — Paul Of The Cross

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation. — Charles Spurgeon

The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper. — Will Self

The fruits of our actions are always interconnected with the roots of honesty towards our inner self. The liar is an enemy to himself — Robin Sacredfire

It's me who is my enemy
Me who beats me up
Me who makes the monsters
Me who strips my confidence. — Paula Cole

People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you. — Dennis E. Adonis

your real self always attracts your real enemies and shows your real companions. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Future shackled is when uncertainty is the enemy that must be beaten into submission. — Bill Jensen

The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within. — Arthur Miller

Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don't be your own worst enemy! — Bryant McGill

Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within. — Steven Pressfield

Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak. — Will Self

Change is a friend to a life with a vision, but an enemy to an aimless person. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

You need to be your own cheer squad not your own worst enemy. — Miya Yamanouchi

Self-mastery is the challenge of transforming yourself from own worst enemy into your greatest ally. — Wes Fesler

Choose your thoughts and beliefs wisely.
Be your own best friend, and not your enemy. — Maddy Malhotra

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Our best friend and our worst enemy reside within us. Unfortunately, most of us access the latter far more often than the former. — Maddy Malhotra

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being. — John Updike

Your greatest enemy is your own relection — Joanne McClean

The enemy is Resistance. — Steven Pressfield

Self-doubt is the greatest enemy of any new good habit. — Victoria Moran

The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy. — Floriano Martins

If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self — Benjamin Franklin

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. — Diogenes