2007-12-05 20:05:17 · 9 answers · asked by rusalka 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
The African proverb is a wise take on another time-treasured sentiment:
"Don't be your own worst enemy."
Here's a great link to a website that thoroughly speaks to the subject:
"Being Your Own Worst Enemy: A twelve-step program on how you can ruin your reputation, lose friends, miss opportunities, and otherwise make your own life miserable"
2007-12-06 01:00:24 · answer #1 · answered by Beach Saint 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's similar to Cicero's statement 2100 years ago, still rings true today. "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague."
2016-03-14 05:26:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is about success. It means no one on the outside will ever push you to drive yourself to achieve your goals. That is only up to you. You are your own enemy because you are the only person in your way of greatness.
2014-01-25 01:20:14 · answer #3 · answered by Alex 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is based on something from Muhammed...
He said that "the spiritual warrior has no outside enemies."
Meaning that others can injure your body, and you can even smile at them, because the true cause of anguish, originates from within yourself...
No one else can ever make you feel bad, without your own permission!
2007-12-05 20:12:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only enemy is self doubt, once removed, then anything is possible if you will it, the outside world is just obstacles to maneuver around, the only possible enemy left is time and your will determines if it is or not!
2014-09-29 11:44:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it's based on the psychological understanding that in life your own fear makes things seem worse than the reality you're facing, if you understand that it's mainly that self-created fear you're facing then you'll be able to conquer that feeling and be ready for the real, easier challenge.
2014-07-28 08:57:02 · answer #6 · answered by Stefan Van Cappellen 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I'm no philosopher, but I would think that it means that the better you know and understand yourself, the less ammunition the world has to use against you.
2007-12-05 20:09:56 · answer #7 · answered by jkeele777 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It means that if you are happy with yourself no one else can bring you down.
2007-12-06 05:50:32 · answer #8 · answered by Celeste 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
self assurance
2007-12-05 23:52:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋