Sean Hannity Quotes

When you create change with your point of view, you have to be ready for what comes with that.

If you're doing your job right, some substantial group of people [is] going to be mad at you.

I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 years. When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.

You should have certainty in what you do. Anyone who has done anything in this world was hated. If you're not hated, you've done nothing.

I am a leader, so leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

There's always opposition when you do something big. I do many things that are controversial. When people see it, they love it!

Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership.

If you're getting a lot of flack, you're right on target.

I measure the impact I make by how harsh the attacks are. The harsher the attacks, the better I am doing.

I'm not sure whether a person can really gauge the quality of his work by the enemies he's made, but if I somehow upset Hamas and the Taliban and Henry Waxman, I must have done something right.

Usually, I prefer not to clarify anything that is being talked about me, but when it goes out of limits, I reply.

If they [peple] really hate you, that means you're doing something right.

Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you're doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they're hiding out in the comfortable zone. When your uncomfortable actions lead to success, the organization rewards you and brings you back for more.

It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.

Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

You don't have to start from scratch to have a massive impact on the world.

People are out there looking for jobs and realizing that they have to look within to do and create what the new and next thing will be. They can't rely anymore on what was usually given to them.

Any time you step forward, someone gets upset.

Steve was among the greatest of American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it...The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.

The most important thing, my father told me, which I have never forgotten, and which I have often put unto practice was: If you get into a quarrel with anybody, hit him first. "If you hit first, the battle is half-won," my father always said "Don't let him hit first. You hit him first." "What's more," he never forgot to say, too "Usually one blow is all you need." I found this to be true.

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.

Love does not imply pacifism.