Opposition Quotes

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  All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Witty, Truth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.4, Publishdrive

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• Great leaders inspire. They maintain a hopeful attitude, even in the face of discouraging setbacks, constant criticism and abundant opposition. People don't follow discouraged leaders. They follow those who persist with hope.

  Rick Warren

  Attitude, People, Hopeful

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• Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!

  John Wesley

  Persistence, Men, Devil

  John Wesley (1980). “John Wesley”, p.86, Oxford University Press

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• If you’re going to do anything great in life, there will be opposition, setbacks, delays and critics. When you have big dreams, you’re going to have big challenges.

  Joel Osteen

  Dream, Challenges, Delay

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• Your life is not little, and your playing small doesn’t serve
  the world. Your living large, on the other hand-your being
  your true self despite fear, fatigue, doubt, and opposition-
  will serve the world more than you can imagine. In fact, it
  may help save it. And saving the world, after all, is
  what all heroes (including you) are here to do.

  Martha Beck

  Hero, Self, Hands

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• We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

  Stephen Covey

  Character, Challenges, Overcoming

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1997). “First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• The opposition occupies the benches in front of you, but the enemy sits behind you

  Winston Churchill

  Enemy, Benches, Behind You

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• Opposition is not necessarily enmity.

  Sigmund Freud

  Enmity

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.41, Courier Dover Publications

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• Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.

  Meher Baba

  Faces, Helping, Good Work

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• There will always be dissident voices heard in the land, expressing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side and seeking influence without responsibility.

  John F. Kennedy

  Responsibility, Voice, Land

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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• The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks. The minute it begins to out-whoop them it forfeits its character and becomes ridiculous.

  H. L. Mencken

  Character, Democracy, Ridiculous

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Diary of H. L. Mencken”, p.281, Vintage

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• The best work usually meets the strongest opposition.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Best Work, Strongest

  Dwight L Moody (2013). “Moody's Last Sermons”, p.91, Moody Publishers

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• The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Majority, Hearing

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• Every successful work of God must have opposition.

  Billy Graham

  Successful, Successful Work

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• Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.

  Joyce Meyer

  Success, Encouraging, God

  Twitter post from May 29, 2012

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• It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

  Vernon Howard

  Men, Miracle

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• A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

  Lewis Mumford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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• We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction.

  Arundhati Roy

  Joining Hands, Needs, World

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The Algebra of Infinite Justice”, p.215, Penguin Books India

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• If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.

  Paul Newman

  Character, Enemy, Ifs

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

  Napoleon Hill

  Adversity, Wind, Kites

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.27, Penguin

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• It is opposition that makes us productive.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Productive

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• I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.

  Glenda Jackson

  Stronger, Cases

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• Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning.

  Bob Ross

  Dark, Light, Opposites

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• It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  Albert Einstein

  Courage, Moving, Simple

  "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.

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• You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.

  John C. Maxwell

  Discouraging, Caliber, Determine

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