The Hero of Canton

"It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sommbitch or another."

Malcom Reynolds

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich said "Well behaved women seldom make history."  I think that goes for men too.  One does not make any kind of significant impact on the world without rubbing some people the wrong way.  Franklin D. Roosevelt said "I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made."  I think people sometimes focus too much on criticism and fail to think about who is it that is doing the criticizing.

I once experienced someone bad mouthing me to a superior.  His complaints essentially were him saying that I worked too hard and that he couldn't keep up.   I lifted my head a little higher that day.

"If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you." -John 15:18  You know who said that? 

Jesus.
  
So if your ever downtrodden and hated know that you're in good company.