Competing Quotes
340 quotes by 302 authors
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For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually…
— David Copperfield
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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
— Margaret Mead
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The marriage-based society...discourages all the competing alternatives to marriage. You can't have a marriage-based society and a social value of sexual freedom. They don't work…
— Scott Lively
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For society to function some kind of reasonable balance has to be stuck between the competing interests of creditors and debtors. Although the mandate of…
— Linda McQuaig
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When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.
— William of Ockham
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The deepest bonds of unity are forged through the trial of competing ideals that have compatible values.
— Wes Fesler
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Banks and other providers of credit to households have been competing vigorously to expand or protect their market share. In the process, lending standards have…
— Ian Macfarlane
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Up here in Alaska we're sitting on billions of barrels of oil. We're sitting on hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas onshore…
— Sarah Palin
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What you really are afraid of is that you're competing against somebody who is rich and irrational. I mean, it used to be a given,…
— John C. Malone
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You are not competing with anyone else. You are only competing with yourself to do the best with whatever you have received.
— L. Tom Perry
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Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of…
— Urie Bronfenbrenner
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If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the…
— Jesse Owens
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If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people, But if you’re willing to…
— Jeff Bezos
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We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more…
— Yuan T. Lee
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Costs merely register competing attractions.
— Frank Knight
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I'll quit competing when my heart quits beating
— Michael Jordan
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What does the name Virgin mean? We are a company that likes to take on the giants. In too many businesses, these giants have had…
— Richard Branson
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It was good to be out there again. Actually I told my wife the same thing: Itll be fun to go out in a stadium…
— Mark Brunell
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I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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I've never felt overmatched on the baseball field. I've always been in a very strong, dominant position. And I felt that if I did my…
— Alex Rodriguez
Who Wrote These Competing Quotes
302 authors contributed a total of 340 Competing Quotes, led by these top contributors: