Norma Shearer Quotes

We have rivals, implacable rivals who constantly oppose the influence which we already exert. They strive to frustrate us in every way possible.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

Every time you go for more competition, some people don't like it, but that's the way it is.

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.

The real leaders cannot appear in the peaceful time; nor can the serious opposition emerge from within the peaceful atmosphere. Without an open confrontation, there is no opposition!

I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.

He who says it cannot be done should get out of the way of the one who is doing it.

Men of energy of character must have enemies…

We shall support whatever our enemies oppose and oppose whatever our enemies support.

First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy.

I love fighting back. I love finding allies, and - famously - I enjoy making enemies.

Of course defenders will try to provoke me - that is their job.

I ain't trying to fight for no title.

Frontrunners always attract envy, and a desperate campaign to stop them in their tracks.

To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.

Conflict may be defined as a situation of competition in which the parties are aware of the incompatibility of potential future positions, and in which each party wishes to occupy a position that is incompatible with the wishes of the other.

When you are getting kicked from the rear it means you are in front.

Trump wants a team of fighters. He wants a team of people that understand what they're up against and who's out to get them, to stop them, to destroy them, to impede them or what have you.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

Four personalities are bound to clash.

I'm always challenged by someone.

Keep your enemies in front of you.