Opposition Quotes

Look for the person everyone hates, and love them.

~ Criss Jami

The higher you climb, the more Satan will take notice. Keep climbing! Heaven's gate has a lock.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Without opposition, there could be no creation. All life would cease without resistance. Emotions also have their polar opposites: attraction – repulsion, love – hate, aggression – meekness, and mercy – callousness.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Whereas literalists and fundamentalists tend to choose one pole of any dilemma or opposition, whereas modern political parties and religious groups tend towards demonizing each other, the creative individual must be born again and again in the crucible created by the tension between opposing instincts, conflicted feelings, and contrasting ideas.

~ Michael Meade

Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.

~ Criss Jami

There are those whose views about religion are not very different from my own, but who nevertheless feel that we should try to damp down the conflict, that we should compromise it. … I respect their views and I understand their motives, and I don't condemn them, but I'm not having it. To me, the conflict between science and religion is more important than these issues of science education or even environmentalism. I think the world needs to wake up from its long nightmare of religious belief; and anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion should be done, and may in fact be our greatest contribution to civilization.

~ Steven Weinberg

God blesses you when you stand up for what you believe in despite opposition.

~ Jim George

Life is a test.  It was designed to be so.  It is where we taste the bitter and the sweet; where we feel pain and pleasure; where we learn right from wrong; where we pass through both darkness and light.  It is a time to make choices.  And through this process we form our characters—some grand and glorious, some barely decent, and others just plain monstrous. 

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

If you do not see light at the end of the tunnel, consider it an opportunity to create an opening yourself, wherever you want.

~ Ashok Kallarakkal

An enemy of yours is an enemy of mine; an enemy of mine is an enemy of yours; if an enemy of mine is not an enemy of yours, then you're an enemy of mine.

~ John Yang Aka Private83

Today's opponents can be your allies tomorrow. And today's allies can be tomorrow's opponents.

~ Suzy Kassem

Before you cut down the tree, think of the birds that take refuge on it

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Every idea, both good and bad will definitely have an opposition. The fact that someone mocks your ideas and dreams does not mean they are bad. Take note!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You may face opposition not only because you are doing something wrong, but because you are doing something right. Not all oppositions are meant for a better life!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Don't obey the commandments of obstacles. Resist every opposition schemed to break you down. Wake up!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

In every dream you pursue, you attract its respective version of opposition. Going back will not solve any problem; Regrets will not change anything either; Feeling of Superiority over every obstacle should be your priority!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

There is an easy way to silence your critics; just try to do what they say you can't do. If they are still not content, do more of it! Keep doing it until you become a master. Then look around, and you will see fewer critics and many compliments!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I wanted Kat out. Every cell of my being demanded that I protect her, even though I knew she was hella capable of doing so herself, but I wanted her far away from here. Hell, I'd keep her in Bubble Wrap if it weren't so damn creepy and also inconvenient, considering I had a terrible habit of obsessively popping the damn things until not a single bubble was left.

~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

~ Albert Einstein

Anything worthwhile is opposed.

~ Michael Hyatt

You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

~ Henrik Ibsen

The greater your ambition for the health of the world, the more sinister, diabolical, complex, and threatening the resistance you will meet.

~ Steven Franssen

Medicinal Spirit, Inside MirrorTherapy becomes a harmony, and that harmony is built on levels,No one knows how to upscale another, for it has to come from the inside grails,Striking inflicts at the mirror and hatred to the being of creator,Causes hate in mirror too and abused flesh to the author,Changes come from its prudence and rationalism liberation,Not its pardon,A mirror is but a substance of a conscious,But identity says let me fly when journeying from the subconscious to the conscious.

~ John Shelton Jones

You can quarrel with a person's ideas, but not with their experience.

~ Marty Rubin

People who take you for granted would be mad at those who regard you as something.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Moral concepts are useful to the extent that they provoke opposition.

~ Marty Rubin

The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many ingenious men from ushering opinions into the world which deviate from common practice. Hence for want of energy, the young idea is shackled with timidity and a useful thought is buried in the impenetrable gloom of eternal oblivion.

~ Robert Fulton

There are challenges and opposition, everywhere! But we will fight the fight of faith!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Opposition should never keep you from the work God has called you to do.

~ Jim George

No matter the level of opposition from external forces, whoever God has elevated, will definitely stay elevated.

~ Hafiz

If I had many who oppose me, it means I have stood for something sacred that only my heart knows.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

...The happy Warrior... is he... who, doomed to go in company with pain, and fear, and bloodshed, miserable train turns his necessity to glorious gain; in face of these doth exercise a power which is our human nature's highest dower: controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves of their bad influence, and their good receives: by objects, which might force the soul to abate her feeling, rendered more compassionate; is placable— because occasions rise so often that demand such sacrifice; more skillful in self-knowledge, even more pure, as tempted more; more able to endure, as more exposed to suffering and distress; thence, also, more alive to tenderness.

~ William Wordsworth

Mr. Cat and Mr. Dog were neighbors who fought like, well, cats and dogs. That is until Mr. Rat moved in. It's fascinating how easily two enemies ally at the introduction of a third.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Be grateful to those who refuse your demands. They are your benefactors.

~ Marty Rubin

I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it is certainly the most important truth of human existence. If it is largely error, then it is one of monumentally tragic proportions—and should be vigorously opposed.

~ Steve Allen

There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social forces are as trivial, in relation to entrenched power, as the old court jesters.

~ James Burnham

5. That people do not believe in you or in your ideas does not necessary mean that you are not good or that your ideas are not good enough. The problem is not with you but with them. For every great invention, we have today encountered this opposition. If you, therefore want to be great you must learn not to live your life based on the opinion of others but on your convictions.

~ Bien Sufficient

When they judge you, yawn.When they misunderstand you, smile.When they underestimate you, laugh.When they condemn you, ignore.When they envy you, rejoice.When they oppose you, prevail.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

I have witnessed how the power of listening, storytelling and embracing gray areas breaks through the rigid 'us vs. them.

~ Aspen Baker

There is no avoiding war, it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli