Perhaps my enemies may have so much power given them from above, as to confine my body: but if I am bound, the word of the LORD will not be bound.
—George Whitefield
The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; for then the enemy will have to prepare against a possible attack at several different points.
—Sun Tzu
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill.
To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
—Sun Tzu
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius
If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete.
—Sun Tzu
To become the enemy, see yourself as the enemy of the enemy.
—Miyamoto Musashi
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.
—Aristotle
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.
—Aristotle
Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.
—Sun Tzu
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
—Cicero
I poured out my soul for all the world, friends, and enemies.
—David Brainerd
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
—Isaac Newton
Why should you be enemies to your own peace? To read over the evidences of God’s love to your souls as a man does a book that he intends to refute? Why do you study to find evasions, to turn off these comforts that are due to you?
—John Flavel
A cowardly friend is worse than an enemy, since you take precautions against your enemy, but you rely upon your friend.
—Leo Tolstoy
Be where your enemy is not.
—Sun Tzu
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
—Sun Tzu
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
If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.
—Sun Tzu
Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.
—Sun Tzu
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
—Oscar Wilde
If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.
—Sun Tzu
Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy.
Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.
—Sun Tzu
Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him.
—Sun Tzu
If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
—Sun Tzu
Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.
—Sun Tzu
Perfect is the enemy of good.
—Voltaire
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy.
—Sun Tzu
To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.
—Sun Tzu
By making our enemy small, mean, contemptible, comical, we take a roundabout route to getting for ourselves the enjoyment of vanquishing him, which the third person – who has gone to no effort – endorses with his laughter.
—Sigmund Freud