Opponent Quotes - page 2

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent. (Maxwell Maltz)
If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off. View quote
Nigel Short
[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within. View quote
Steven Pressfield
If your opponent is of choleric temperament, seek to irritate him. View quote
Sun Tzu
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across. View quote
Sun Tzu
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
Our opponent...is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country. View quote
Sarah Palin
Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary. (J. M. Coetzee)
Is it [hunting] really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn't know a game is going on? View quote
Bill Maher
Others may doubt us. They may criticize us. They may try to deny us what is rightfully ours. But they will fail. And I promise you, as long as I am mayor, I will never back away from fighting any opponent -- or confronting any obstacle -- that would prevent our people from achieving all of their dreams in Our New York. View quote
Michael Bloomberg
I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me. View quote
Dave Barry
Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself. View quote
Paul Begala
When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a science, when I admire a beautiful combination or study, then chess is art, and when I am complicating position in the approaching time trouble of my opponent, then chess is sport. View quote
Ashot Nadanian
If you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things. View quote
Barack Obama
And it is clear that He does not abandon them the moment they fall, and that demons will not remain in their demonic state, and sinners (will not remain) in their sins; rather, He is going to bring them to a single equal state of perfection in relationship to His own Being - in a (state) in which the holy angels are now, in perfection of love and a passionless mind. He is going to bring them into that excellency of will, where it will not be as though they were curbed and not, or having stirrings from the Opponent then; rather, (they will be) in a (state of) excelling knowledge, with a mind made mature in the stirrings which partake of the divine outpouring which the blessed Creator is preparing in His grace; they will be perfected in love for Him, with a perfect mind which is above any aberration in all its stirrings. View quote
Isaac the Syrian
If you admit that to silence your opponent by force is to win an intellectual argument, then you admit the right to silence people by force. View quote
Hans Eysenck
Never take your eyes off your opponent. And never think you don't have to work for a victory. Even now, you could surprise me. (Takeshi) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent. (Vasily Smyslov)
No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess game a work of art, if these qualities do not lead to the main goal - the search for truth. View quote
Vasily Smyslov
Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be. It will help you in times of distress and hardships, in battles and in war and peace. View quote
Abd al-Karim Qasim
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. View quote
Thomas Watson, Jr.
My martial arts came a lot from my uncle, who actually taught martial arts through the military. He was a black belt in tae kwon do, but also, he used a lot of military-style fighting where it's not the high kicks or anything like that. It's basically defeat your opponent as fast as possible. View quote
Brian Tee