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«Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
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«Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
affection, allow, imprisoned, imprisons, infallible, Interior, opposition, oppositions, recognize, reverse, reversed, reverses, Reversing
«Some punishment seems preparing for a people who are ungratefully abusing the best constitution and the best King any nation was ever blessed with, intent on nothing but luxury, licentiousness, power, places, pensions, and plunder; while the ministry, divided in their counsels, with little regard for each other, worried by perpetual oppositions, in continual apprehension of changes, intent on securing popularity in case they should lose favor, have for some years past had little time or inclination to attend to our small affairs, whose remoteness makes them appear even smaller.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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«Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Intelligence,
Prejudice
| Keywords:
courageously, Great Spirit, hereditary, honestly, intelligence, latter, opposition, oppositions, prejudices, spirits, submit, submitting, thoughtlessly, uses, violent
«O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called. (1 Timothy 6:20)»
«Conciliate a strong man by submission, a wicked man by opposition, and the one whose power is equal to yours by politeness or force.»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
| Keywords:
equaled, equaling, oppositions, submissions, wickedest
«It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and mortal persecution»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
abhorrence, anxious, expect, mortal, opposition, oppositions, persecution, persecutions, reform, reformer, reforming, society
«Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.»
Author: Stephen R. Covey
| About:
Adversity,
Challenge,
Overcoming
| Keywords:
adversity, Challenges, develop, lifting, muscles, opposition, oppositions, overcoming, physical, such as, weights
«The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.»
«Opposition is true friendship.»
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