A divided kingdom cannot defend itself from its adversaries. A divided person cannot face life in a dignified way.

~ Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho Adversaries Divided Life Truth

If you are focused on your calling, the efforts of any adversary will prove powerless

~ Sunday Adelaja

Sunday Adelaja Adversaries Calling Effort Focus Fulfillment Purpose

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.

~ Robert Jordan

Robert Jordan Adversaries Adversary Battle Strategy War

...There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man's words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets to the point where he can simply say, 'The sky is blue,' and people indignantly rush up trying to refute him saying, 'No, the sky is light blue,' then, whether they realize it or not, he has become an authority figure even to such adversaries.

~ Criss Jami

Criss Jami Adversaries Arguing Authority Blue Cherry Picking Continuous Debate Envy Fallacy Haters Indignant Leadership Opinions Power Refute Sky Spite Words

When God's favour and Godly flavour is in you, your haters will taste wisdom and the only thing they can do is to regret ever tasting a sweet thing.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Israelmore Ayivor Adversaries Almighty God Critics Enermies Favor Favour Flavor Flavour Foes Food For Thought Fresh Fresh Life God God S Favor God S Favour Godly Hate Haters Israelmore Ayivor Life Love Regret Sweet Sweet Life Sweet Thing Taste Tasting Very Wise Wisdom Wise You

If we demand perfection from ourselves we are not living in the real world...The inherent problem in the relationship between the ideal & the real is that the ideal judges the real as unacceptable and brings down condemnation and wrath on the real. This sets up an adversarial relationship between the two and like all adversaries, they move further and further apart.

~ Henry Cloud

Henry Cloud Adversaries Perfectionism Perfectly Imperfect Real World Self Esteem Self Hate Self Hatred Self Judgement True Self

The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent.

~ Alain De Botton

Alain De Botton Adversaries Both Sides Opponents Politics Understanding

But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.

~ Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins Acknowledge Acknowledgement Adversaries Adversary Beforehand Brains Clever Enemies Enemy Intelligence Intelligent Man Smart Smarts Thought

The adversaries main goal is to confuse & discourage the great.

~ Auliq Ice

Auliq Ice Adversaries Enemies Enemies And Opposition Enemity Hate

Flavour your life in such a way that anyone who thinks he or she is biting or back-biting you, will rather take smiles away unexpectedly and with surprises.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Israelmore Ayivor Adversaries Back Bite Back Biting Behaviour Bite Biting Critics Enermies Flavor Flavour Foes Fresh Fresh Life Good Behaviour Good Habit Good Life Gossiping Gossips Habit Happy Haters Life Live Life So Well Love Not Expected Obey Respect Smile Surprise Surprising Sweet Sweet Life Taste Unexpected

He had a simple maxim for all competitive or adversarial situations: work out what the other party least wants you to do, and then do it. Relieving your feelings was fun, but the best course of action was to make things as difficult as possible for the person trying to make things difficult for you.

~ John Lanchester

John Lanchester Adversaries Competition Conflict Contrariness Difficulties