Judah Smith
Pastor
"Sometimes our brains are our own worst enemy because grace isn't logical."
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Worst Enemy
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Edwin Louis Cole
Author, Speaker
"Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you."
Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."
Gautama Buddha
Spiritual Teacher
"Your worst enemy is your best teacher."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego."
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"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."
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"There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us."
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"Get out of your own way. Often, we're our own worst enemy when working towards our goals."
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"Mediocrity is the worst enemy of prosperity."
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"Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work"
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"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."
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"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."
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"Man is his own worst enemy."
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"The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself."
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"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."
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"Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts."
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"I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are."
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"Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy"
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"I am my own best friend and my own worst enemy. Before coming here, I was thinking I don't deserve it, that i wouldn't be able to meet your expectations, and that you had probably chosen the wrong candidate. At the same time, my heart was telling me that i was being rewarded because i hadn't given up and had fought to the end"
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"Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies."
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"If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because they are frightened of public opinion. In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and that fact does not seem to me to have had the discussion it deserves."
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"Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy."
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"Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny."
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"Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!"
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"Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course — it was not round and shiny — but even its worst enemies would agree that if you had to liken Ankh-Morpork to anything, then it might as well be a piece of rubbish covered with the diseased secretions of a dying mollusc."
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