“If you are your own worst enemy, don't do yourself any favors.”
Tom Heehler American author
The Well-Spoken Thesaurus (2011)
Source: Choke
“If you are your own worst enemy, don't do yourself any favors.”
Tom Heehler American author
The Well-Spoken Thesaurus (2011)
“Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The Way of the Creator.
Context: But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you ambush yourself in caverns and forests. You solitary one, you go the way to yourself! And your way leads you past yourself and your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself, and a sorcerer and a soothsayer, and a fool, and a doubter, and a reprobate, and a villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes!
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Love in the Afternoon
Sean Hannity (1961) American television host, conservative political commentator
Hannity
Fox News
Television
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200910130066
2009-10-13
“Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.”
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
“The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd.”
Anthony Horowitz book Point Blanc
Source: Point Blank
Sun Tzu (-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty
Variant translations
If you know others and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know others but know yourself, you win one and lose one; if you do not know others and do not know yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.
Know your enemy and know yourself, find naught in fear for 100 battles. Know yourself but not your enemy, find level of loss and victory. Know not thy enemy nor yourself, wallow in defeat every time.
Literal translation: Know [the] other, know [the] self, hundred battles without danger; not knowing [the] other but know [the] self, one win one loss; not knowing [the] other, not knowing [the] self, every battle must [be] lost.
Source: The Art of War, Chapter III · Strategic Attack