Quotes About Opposition

Don't be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the 'Kite' of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it.

Whatever success I've achieved has come from pretty much doing the opposite of what I've been told or expected to do.

When you want to change things, you won't please everyone.

Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.

How singular, murmured Maximillian; your father hates me, while your grandfather, on the contrary -- What strange feelings are aroused by politics.

The Count of Morcerf was no favorite with his colleagues. Like all upstarts, he had had recourse to a great deal of haughtiness to maintain his position.

One of the commonest weaknesses of human intelligence is the wish to reconcile opposing principles and to purchase harmony at the expense of logic.

the people of the United States are so opposed to compulsory enlistment that I do not imagine it can ever be sanctioned by the laws.

A government which should only be able to crush its enemies upon a field of battle would very soon be destroyed.

What is made of water and fire -- for isn't that what a man whose nature opposes his responsibilities can be said to be? Does one quench the other, or do they combine to ignite the depths of the soul?

The priests were deferential, siding with Rome, and those who opposed them were said to be robbers and thugs, my father and his friends among

We admire people who oppose the regime in totalitarian country and think they have courage or a strong moral sense or have remained true to their principles and the like. We may also smile at their naïveté, thinking, Don't they realise that their words are of no use at all against this oppressive power? That they will hath to pay dearly for their protest?

We will fight the white man, they said. But the white man is not alone, said the chief. He has brought his army.

People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must hold to what is difficult; everything in Nature grows and defends itself in its own way and is characteristically and spontaneously itself, seeks at all costs to be so and against all opposition. —Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain

Hit it back over the net, as the teachers use to say when getting us ready for school debates. The harder the shot coming toward you, the more power in your return.

Consult, v.t. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on. Contempt, n. The feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

Optimist , n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it.

MACHINATION, n. The method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open and honorable efforts to do the right thing.

A man is measured by his enemies. Worthy ones can be more missed than friends.

Enemies are the price of success

No reason to let the edge grow dull, simply because I have run out of enemies. New enemies will present themselves, before too long.

La historia no es un relato de las batallas entre el bien y el mal, sino entre el bien de una persona y el de otra. El mal no es lo contrario del bien. Es como llamamos a la noción del bien que tiene otra persona cuando difiere de la nuestra.