Obstacles often are not personal attacks; they are muscle builders.

—Anne Wilson Schaef

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

—John Locke

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

—Leonore Fleischer

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

If you stand up and be counted, form 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

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

Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who rejected you, and braced themselves against you, or disputed the passage with you?           —Walt Whitman

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

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

Break the anger habit. It is a waste of valuable energy to rail against adverse events. Stuff happens. Get over it and move on.

—Sibyl McLendon

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

 —William Shakespeare