Opposition

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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—demanding, not the faculties of prudence and thrift, but comprehension, immovableness, the readiness of sacrifice,—comes graceful and beloved as a bride."
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."
  • Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Reflections on the Revolution in France

• "A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against and not with the wind. Even a head wind is better than none. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. Let no man wax pale, therefore, because of opposition."
  • John Neal

• "It is not ease, but effort,—not facility, but difficulty, that makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved."
  • Samuel Smiles

• "To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them."
  • Goethe

• "No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition."
  • Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby, Bk. II, ch i

• "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
  • Dorothy Hewitt Hutchinson in the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper

• "Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid."
  • Franklin P. Jones

• "In opposition never give an inch and maintain discipline at all times."
  • Swami Raj