Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Any opposition not based on rationalism or science or experience will one day or other, reveal the fraud, selfishness, lies and conspiracies. — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
“Or you create an alterative with so much support from other people that the opposition voluntarily abandons its views and joins your… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
You can actually make a lot of money and do a lot of good in the world. I don't see those things… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years… — Patricia Hewitt Copy Share Image
An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
We will fight against any pro-nuclear power plan. And we will remind people that a change in the German nuclear consensus would… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
John Quincy Adams ranks with Jimmy Carter on the roster of ex-presidential redemption. Instead of completing a biography of his father, he… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
[T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
When I consider a problem, it is now instinctive for me to think about the institutions involved, the authorizing environment, possible coalitions,… — Robert Zoellick Copy Share Image
All Buddhas and ordinary people are just one mind. This mind is beyond all measurements, names, oppositions: this very being is it;… — Huangbo Xiyun Copy Share Image
I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men's discourses...… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Sustainability is especially ripe for political controversy and opposition because fundamentally it is a new paradigm that represents significant challenges to the… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“The nearer Christ comes to a heart, the more it becomes conscious of its guilt; it will then either ask for his… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what word we use, if it has the same content, it will be treated in the same way. There… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
No power of earth, or hell, men or devils, can possibly stand against the word of God; and hence it is the… — Charles Henry Mackintosh Copy Share Image
The West is supporting, even financing the right-wing media, it is financing 'the opposition', encourages capital flight of billions of dollars, works… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
In Wisconsin, I led the Assembly to a balanced budget in face of fierce opposition from the status quo. — Jeff Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto. — Donald Tusk Copy Share Image
We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
When you're doing what you were put here to do, there may be opposition but there is no competition — Tony Gaskins Copy Share Image
We need an opposition to remind us if we are making mistakes. When you are not opposed you think everything you do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People face difficulties, no matter who you are. I faced difficulties with a lot of things. I face opposition every day, but… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set… — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
A complete investment in the Obama administration required that any real opposition had to be demonized. The investment in Barack Obama had… — Bob Ehrlich Copy Share Image
I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consistent with God's existence… — John Clayton Copy Share Image
A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being… — Howard Fineman Copy Share Image
I think if I had done anything else I would like to have been a doctor. This is the sort of polar… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
In every sort of politics, in history, it has its own problems, its leaders, its own opposition. — Sonia Gandhi Copy Share Image
When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or… — Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Copy Share Image
Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If the cost of naming the enemy is diplomatically or politically unacceptable, then the war is not likely to go well.” — George Friedman Copy Share Image
If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father's plan would be frustrated. — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image