Christina Quotes

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

He has no worse enemy than himself.

beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

I'm my own worst enemy.

Your enemy is your own self in a different uniform.

None but yourself who are your greatest foe.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

Every man is his own hell.

Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.

Unlike an external enemy, the inner enemy cannot regroup and launch a comeback once it has been destroyed from within.

You will find that our enemies are our own kin. It is they who betray us. So learn this most important lesson-in the end, our worst enemy is ourselves

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

The self is hateful.

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

I'm my own worst enemy and I know that.

I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

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.

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