When you meet opposition to your faith, your first reaction may be anger toward your antagonist. This may divert your attention from the deeper, spiritual dimensions of your conflict. Your adversary may be hopelessly in bondage to sin. Rather than retaliating, you should immediately and earnestly intercede for that person. Your opponent's hostility is your invitation to become involved in God's redemptive work to free him or her from spiritual bondage. Be alert to the spiritual warfare around you.
Never quit politicking and never underestimate your opponent.
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
Russians understand strength, and if they feel that their opponents are weak, they will take advantage of it.
The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness.
After you work out, you have your dog with you. There's no better companion. You've got to have a friend. I didn't like opponents who had dogs with them. Because you know they had a little edge. They have a friend
The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution.
Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left.
Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.
I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in there and also understand that for every punch that you or your opponent throws there's always a counter shot or two which you have to be ready to fire or defend.
The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent.
Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.
It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.
No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side.
The difficult opponent is the best.
You have to hope that your opponents are unlucky. Never only rely on your own luck.
There's not gonna be any tuition cuts. There aren't gonna be any drastic reductions in salaries. And in fact when the subject of cuts comes up, the first thing that the opponents of cuts say, "You can't cut this faculty. You can't cut the salaries. You wouldn't save enough money, you can't go there. "
Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.
People feel the deck is being totally stacked against them, and the Democrats have various things in their playbook to go after opponents; taxes is one of them.
Our opponent [Cory Aquino] does not put on any make up. She does not have her fingernails manicured. You know gays. They are for beauty. Filipinos who like beauty, love and God are for Marcos.