Worthy Opponents Quotes

• Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Enemy, Opponents, Enthusiasm

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• If you face a worthy opponent acknowledge their skills and show them yours.

  Kiersten Warren

  Softball, Skills, Opponents

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• For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

  Mary McCarthy

  Strong, Self, Rebel

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• Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Athlete, Soul

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I played basketball to try to get my parents from working so hard.

  James Worthy

  Motivational, Basketball, Parent

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• To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.

  Beth Moore

  Dignity, Worthy, Esteem

  Beth Moore (2010). “So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us”, p.159, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Even capitalists must surely admit, that intellectually at least, socialism is a worthy opponent. It imparts intelligence even to its adversaries.

  Arundhati Roy

  Opponents, Socialism, Worthy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

  James Worthy

  Basketball, College, Letters

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• The whole universe or the structure that perceives it is a worthy opponent, but try as I may I can not escape the sound of suffering. Perhaps as an old man I will take great comfort in pottering around in a lab and gently talking to students in the summer evening and will accept suffering with insouciance. But not now; men in their prime, if they have convictions are tasked to act on them.

  Julian Assange

  Summer, Men, Talking

  "Witnessing". Selected Correspondence, Julian Assange's old blog, IQ.org (via Archive.org), web.archive.org. January 3, 2007.

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• Lissa knelt down, compassion on her face. I wasn't surprised, since she'd always had a thing for animals. She'd lectured me for days after I'd instigated the infamous hamster-and-hermit-crab fight. I'd viewed the fight as a testing of worthy opponents. She'd seen it as animal cruelty.

  Richelle Mead

  Fighting, Animal, Compassion

  Richelle Mead (2007). “Vampire Academy”, p.132, Penguin

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• In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we have closed our eyes, leapt across the yawning abyss, and landed knee-deep in daisies. Even losing has a certain gloomy glamour: the gods of chance are worthy opponents; we have engaged them in hand-to-hand combat and though we lost, at least we shrank not from the contest.

  Barbara Holland

  Eye, Winning, Yawning

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