Don’t be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against — not with — the wind.   —Hamilton Mabie

Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

                                                                                                   —Zig Ziglar

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.            —Albert Einstein

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.                —Thomas J. Watson, Jr

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.                —John Kenneth Galbraith

The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct ratio to the intensity with which others try to prove him wrong.

                                                                                    —Leonore Fleischer

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.                                                        —Alexander Hamilton

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters.                                —Walter Lippmann

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.         —Joseph Sobran

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.     —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.         —Justice Robert Jackson

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.        —Eleanor Roosevelt

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. —Orison Swett Marden