{"quotes":[{"text":"There is an easy way to silence your critics; just try to do what they say you can't do. If they are still not content, do more of it! Keep doing it until you become a master. Then look around, and you will see fewer critics and many compliments!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["achieve","again","around","compliments","congratulations","content","critic","criticise","criticize","critics","do-it","easy","endurance","endure","few","fewer","food-for-thought","hibernate","israelmore-ayivor","little","look","look-around","master","more","much","opponents","oppose","opposition","perseverance","persevere","persist","persistence","persistent","praise","quiet","shut-down","shut-up","silence","silent","small","success","try","try-again","watch-and-pray","win","winner"],"id":24287,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Disagreeing with someone does not mean that they have to be enemies or opponents.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["disagreeing","enemies","opponents"],"id":40939,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"The strong overcome their opponents, the mighty crush them, the shrewd outwit them, the cowardly hide from them, but the enlightened transcend them.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["brave","conquer","conqueror","coward","defeat","enemy","enemy","enlightened","enlightenment","fight","guru","intelligence","intelligence","might","motivation","motivational","motivational","motivational-of-the-day","motivational","motivational-for-women","opponents","rival","sage","shrewd","strength","strength","strong","success","success","transcendence","victory","warrior","wisdom","wisdom","wisdom","wise","wise","wise-sayings","wise-words"],"id":45900,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"God had not abandoned us. He was actively working behind the scenes, when I had no means or spirit to fight.","author":"K. Howard Joslin","tags":["cancer","faith","opponents","trials"],"id":46032,"author_id":"K.+Howard+Joslin"},{"text":"Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["adversary","enemy","enemy","enlightenment","fear","friend","guru","helper","ignorance","knowledge","learn","learning","life-lesson","life-lessons","life-lessons","life","life","life","life-and-sayings","life-inspirational","opponents","philosopher","sage","school","student","vice","virtue","wisdom","wisdom","wisdom","wise","wise","wise-sayings","wise-words"],"id":78354,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent.","author":"Alain de Botton","tags":["adversaries","both-sides","opponents","politics","understanding"],"id":90448,"author_id":"Alain+de+Botton"},{"text":"Only boxers can understand the loneliness of tennis players - and yet boxers have their corner men and managers. Even a boxer's opponent provides a kind of companionship, someone he can grapple with and grunt at. In tennis you stand face-to-face with the enemy, trade blows with him, but never touch him or talk to him, or anyone else. The rules forbid a tennis player from even talking to his coach while on the court. People sometimes mention the track-and-field runner as a comparably lonely figure, but I have to laugh. At least the runner can feel and smell his opponents. They're inches away. In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement....","author":"Andre Agassi","tags":["boxing","loneliness","opponents","solitary-confinement","tennis"],"id":173173,"author_id":"Andre+Agassi"},{"text":"Typically, in politics, more than one horse is owned and managed by the same team in an election. There's always and extra candidate who will slightly mimic the views of their team's opposing horse, to cancel out that person by stealing their votes just so the main horse can win. Elections are puppet shows. Regardless of their rainbow coats and many smiles, the agenda is one and the same.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["agenda","agendas","candidate","corruption","costumes","democrat","elect","election","elections","horse","horses","left","left-wing","masks","nominations","nominees","opponents","political","political-philosophy","politicians","politics","politricks","presidential-elections","puppet","puppets","rainbow","rainbow-coat","republican","right","right-wing","smiles","steal-votes","stealing","vote","voters","votes","voting"],"id":175867,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"When people try to pull you down, remember, they had to look up to do so.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["enemy","enemy","envy","greatness","haters","jelous","jelousy","life-lesson","life-lessons","life-lessons","life-lessons","life","life","life","life-and-sayings","life-inspirational","motivation","motivational","motivational","motivational-of-the-day","motivational","motivational-for-women","opponents","opposition","people","star","stars","success"],"id":186401,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"You were given the problems you have because you can solve them.You were given the burdens you have because you can carry them.You were given the trials you have because you can overcome them.You were given the opponents you have because you can beat them.You were given the enemies you have because you can conquer them.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["adversity","attitude","burden","conquer","endurance","enemy","greatness","life-lesson","opponents","overcomer","perseverance","problem","solution","success","trial"],"id":202117,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}