Competition Quotes

1541 Competition quotes by 1153 unique authors

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. — Elie Wiesel
Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition. — Olivia Wilde
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. — Oprah Winfrey
The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man,… — Frances Wright
It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition. — Ron Wyden
If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In… — Viswanathan Anand
My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six… — Felicia Day
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes… — C.S. Lewis
It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition… — George A. Sheehan
If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to… — John O'Donohue
We humans have always sought to increase our personal energy in the only manner we have known, by seeking to psychologically steal it from the… — James Redfield
Today the logic goes something like this: 'Calling a ruler Son of God is out of style. No one really does that nowadays. We can… — Shane Claiborne
Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws… — Wendell Berry
Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his… — Unknown Author
When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of brutal competition we… — John Grisham
American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy,… — Philip Roth
if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser! — Tiger Woods
Score one for Team Kendall, Payton thought. Not that it was a competition between them. Not at all. — Julie James
New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness,… — John Steinbeck
Love dies in many different ways, and it's natural for the grass to seem greener on the other side. But it's not a competition; there's… — Rob Sheffield
There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a… — Charles de Lint
...in any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white, black, or blue,… — W. E. B. Du Bois
[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules of competition which… — Michael Palin
A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing… — Ursula K. Le Guin

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