Quotes & Sayings About Defeating Your Enemy

A blind, anemic, weak-kneed flea on crutches would have a greater chance of defeating a herd of a thousand wild stampeding elephants, than the enemy has of defeating God. — Ray Comfort

The Bible is the weapon which enables us to join with our Lord on the offensive in defeating the spiritual hosts of wickedness. But is must be the Bible as the Word of God in everything it teaches- in matters if salvation, but just as much where it speaks of history and science and morality. If we compromise in any if these areas ... we destroy the power of the Word and ourselves in the hands of the enemy. — Francis A. Schaeffer

Don?t make decisions in anger or humiliate an enemy after defeating him ... — Saddam Hussein

Men of outstanding ability are more likely to lack the power of controlling their own people than of defeating an enemy in battle. — Livy

I was so lucky that I got to meet certain people. It came through Roddy McDowall, who had become a photographer and would do these portraits of celebrities. Then he would get another well-known person to write a thing. He photographed me when I was 15 or 16, and he got Jason Robards to write the thing because he was sort of my mentor. And Roddy would invite me to these dinner parties that were insane. Like, Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen O'Hara and people that were just crazy. I still can't really believe that I met them. — Winona Ryder

True victory does not come from defeating an enemy, true victory comes from giving love and changing an enemies heart. — Morihei Ueshiba

In their figurative game of chess, Anthony Rawlings had Claire in check. Every move she made, he countered. — Aleatha Romig

Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough - whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature. — Roger Ebert

We pray because our own solutions don't work and because prayer deploys, activates, and fortifies us against the attacks of the enemy. We — Priscilla Shirer

When cancer first came into my life, people all around me treated it as the enemy. I was told I had to join the medical team and we'd fight together to defeat it. This was the wrong thing to say to someone who was the last one to be picked for any team. I was much happier sitting on the sidelines and encouraging the other players. I was totally unskilled at defeating anything. So I secretly went my own way and decided that I was free to choose the meaning of the healing experience. I decided I would develop a friendly relationship with the cancer, which was something I was good at. — Dawna Markova

In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students. — Noam Chomsky

A fool and his money are quickly parted. — Jeff Bridges

God's greatest agency; man's greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession. — S.D. Gordon

Hence the skillful fighter puts himself into a position which makes defeat impossible, and does not miss the moment for defeating the enemy. — Sun Tzu

We each build our own future. We are the architects of our own fortune. — Appius Claudius Caecus

Approach the enemy with the attitude of defeating him without delay. — Miyamoto Musashi

I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies. — Charles XII Of Sweden

It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms. — Andre Breton

We fought very hard for feminism, for women's rights. What I'm seeing today is a very opposite thing. I don't know why, but I see women being put back in the place. And I hate it. We're losing all we worked so hard for and it really bums me out. — Stevie Nicks

Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting. — Sun Tzu

Today,is the Tomorrow I was so worried about Yesterday — Anthony Hopkins

Your greatest contribution to God's Kingdom work - and to defeating the Enemy's efforts against this Kingdom - is to keep up your daily devotions; live a clean, honest, humble, Spirit-filled life; trust God to guard and protect you morally, physically, and spiritually; and openly witness for Jesus Christ. Don't be a pawn of the devil, but a servant of Christ. — Billy Graham

Defeating the enemy through deception with little loss of life is better than fighting face-to-face with the loss of many lives on both sides. — Aleksandra Layland

For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards. — Sun Tzu

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the
opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. — Sun Tzu

There is satisfaction in defeating an enemy. But one must never allow oneself to become complacent. There are always more enemies to be identified, faced, and vanquished. — Timothy Zahn

Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must be waged with a savage joy in defeating the enemy, and it is that savage joy that inspires our bards to write their greatest songs about love and war. — Bernard Cornwell

Although we had no hope of defeating the enemy in the battlefield, nevertheless, we fought back to keep the idea of liberation alive. From a conversation with Richard Stengel, January 13, 1993 — Nelson Mandela

The good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy. — Sun Tzu

Over our heads, two millimetres, maybe one millimetre from our temples, those long tempting lines of steel that bullets make when they're out to kill you were whistling through the hot summer air.
I'd never felt so useless as I did amid all those bullets in the sunlight. A vast and universal mockery. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. — Sun Tzu

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