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

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, and the most gripping stories.                        —Billy Graham

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

I have learnt that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

                                                                            —Booker T. Washington

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

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

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

                                                                                                —John Locke

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

                                                                                           —Francis Bacon

To fly, we have to have resistance.                                     —Maya Lin

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.           —Baltasar Gracián y Morales