Contests Quotes · Page 3

Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.

— Ibycus

I'm not in a contest. I make movies. I'm not a racehorse...

— George Lucas

You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.

— Epictetus

It is impossible to win a contest with a helpless opponent since if you win you have won nothing.

— Jay Haley

I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended.

— Jim Rohn

I will never contest election in Nigeria. Whenever my husband retires, I will go back home with him.

— Patience Jonathan

The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy.

— Ludwig Boltzmann

You are not a leader to win a popularity contest-you are a leader to lead.

— Jack Welch

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be…

— Abraham Lincoln

A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not [about] political prestige…

— Ben Bova

Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and…

— Lucy Powell

They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It was a revolving door that kept going in circles. I got to the point where I thought, "Man, none of this…

— Christian Hosoi

The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking…

— Henry Cabot Lodge

There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the…

— Ricardo Semler

The adoption of gloves for all contests will do more to preserve the practice of boxing than any other conceivable means. It…

— John Boyle O'Reilly

I won contest after contest until finally I realized, "Ok, I am the best in the world, but now what?" So I…

— Christian Hosoi

The good thing is that I really think that American television is in kind of a second golden age. Even though there's…

— Paul Feig

Life is but short; no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorry, or contests upon questions seriously momentous.…

— Samuel Johnson

International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would…

— J. William Fulbright

I think overtly political novels - those that never transcend or contest their author's conscious intentions and prejudices - are problematic. This…

— Pankaj Mishra

To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what…

— Thomas Jefferson

Let’s state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual,…

— Richard Rohr

No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average Negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the white…

— Thomas Huxley

I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women…

— Rachel Johnson

To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.

— Alexander Hamilton

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

— Warren E. Burger

A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt.

— Ethan Gilsdorf

Beating Newt Gingrich in a popularity contest is like beating Stephen Hawking in 'Dancing with the Stars.'

— Bill Maher

Life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?.

— Matthew McConaughey

I'm not here to win a popularity contest. I'm here to work and have a career. Let the haters hate. I'm ready…

— Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.

— Allison Pearson

I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going…

— Dan Harmon

A boxing contest is a brain-damage contest. Who can give out more brain damage and who can absorb more of it?

— Jonathan Gottschall

The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.

— Dustin Hoffman

In case you're wondering why Guy Fieri is here, he won a contest.

— Mario Batali

Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression.

— Reuben Fine

For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.

— Alexander Pope

I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality.

— Phyllis Diller