Opposition is the very spur of love. [ Smollett ]
Opposition strengthens the manly will. [ Alcott ]
Virtue withers away if it has no opposition. [ Seneca ]
Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire. [ Ouida ]
Difficulties spur us whenever they do not check us. [ Charles Reade ]
Mankind are dastardly when they meet with opposition. [ Franklin ]
Nobody loves heartily unless people take pains to prevent it. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him. [ Schiller ]
Before mine eyes in opposition sits Grim Death, my son and foe. [ Milton ]
Opposition, may inflame the enthusiast, but never converts him. [ Schiller ]
It is not the victory that makes the joy of noble hearts, but the combat. [ Montalembert ]
Difficulty adds to result, as the ramming of powder sends the bullet the further. [ George MacDonald ]
To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them. [ Goethe ]
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. [ Burke ]
A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome. [ Emerson ]
Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please. [ Montaigne ]
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue. [ Moliere ]
There is no possible success without some opposition as a fulcrum; force is always aggressive, and crowds something or other, if it does not hit and trample upon it. [ O. W. Holmes ]
It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current. [ Fielding ]
Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped. [ Jeremy Collier ]
It is not ease, but effort - not facility, but difficulty, that makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved. [ Samuel Smiles ]
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against and not with the wind. Even a head wind is better than none. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. Let no man wax pale, therefore, because of opposition. [ John Neal ]
How often in the halls of legislation does eloquence unmask corruption, expose intrigue, and overthrow tyranny! In the cause of mercy it is omnipotent. It is bold in the consciousness of its superiority, fearless and unyielding in the purity of its motives. All opposition it destroys; all power it defies. [ Henry Melville ]
The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat; men to whom a crisis which intimidates and paralyzes the majority - demanding, not the faculties of prudence and thrift, but comprehension, immovableness, the readiness of sacrifice - comes graceful and beloved as a bride. [ Emerson ]