Worthy Opponent Quotes

#1. Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.

Sam Brownback

#2. Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Oliver Goldsmith

#3. if someone merely wishes to provoke you, shake the dust from your feet and carry on. Fight only with a worthy opponent, and not with someone who uses trickery to prolong a war that is already over, as does sometimes happen.

Paulo Coelho

#4. If you face a worthy opponent acknowledge their skills and show them yours.

Kiersten Warren

#5. Years later, a Japanese visitor tried to apologize to Mao for his country's invasion of China. Mao interrupted, "Should I not thank you instead?" Without a worthy opponent, he explained, a man or group cannot grow stronger.

Robert Greene

#6. Warriors want a worthy opponent. There is no redress in fighting the pathetic.

Donna Lynn Hope

#7. Consider and then act, don't react. A worthy opponent will calculate his move to entice a response from you. Make your own play.

R.D. Ronald

#8. Without a worthy opponent a man or group cannot grow stronger.

Robert Greene

#9. A worthy opponent can command more
respect from us than a cowering ally.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

Mary McCarthy

#11. The Captain of the Guard would be an interesting opponent. Maybe even worthy of some effort on her part.

Sarah J. Maas

#12. America leads the world at present in golden-calf production.

Eugene H. Peterson

#13. The role of art in society differs for every artist.

Maya Lin

#14. To be very honest with you, there were two big factors: One was that we were initially coming out in that week before Thanksgiving where both Twilight 3D and Happy Feet 2 are coming out.

Shawn Anthony Levy

#15. May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.

John Darnielle

#16. The more you love, the more you crave.

Nicole Kidman

#17. The only actions that do not cause opposing reactions are those that are aimed at the good of all.

Eckhart Tolle

#18. But I am not here ironically; I am here sincerely.

Augusten Burroughs

#19. Winning is nothing unless the opponent is worthy

Carole Nelson Douglas

#20. There was something so cool about being able to carry this film [Into the Forest] together [with Ellen Page] and to play off of each other. It was like having the most worthy tennis opponent.

Evan Rachel Wood

#21. Scowled. "That's fine. But ... Kym who?" Poseidon coughed into his fist. "She's one of mine.

Rick Riordan

#22. However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.

Mahatma Gandhi

#23. And now your dead inside, still you wonder why, when your on the edge and falling off, its all over, for you

Three Days Grace

#24. Small steps could make large journeys, if admittedly very slow ones.

Kim Harrison

#25. There were lots of kinds of men in the world. There were lots of kinds of dogs in the world. There were lots of men who acted like dogs in the world.

Claire Cook

#26. A stony road, hard on the feet. I would beg for us to sit down but you discouraged it, knowing that sitting was fatal, because of the willpower required to get up again.

Edna O'Brien