Contest Quotes

345 Contest quotes by 294 unique authors

Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind — Roy Keane
And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age. — Lisa See
Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy… — Akhenaton
The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men,… — Lysander Spooner
Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people... the worst is ugly, short men. Women… — Karl Lagerfeld
Without numerical fluency, in the part of life most of us inhibit, you are like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest. — Charlie Munger
You can't win all the contests and then lose at one contest and say, 'Why am I not winning this contest as well?' It's random.… — David Rakoff
I train like I'm training for the Olympics or for a Mr. America contest, the way I've always trained my whole life. You see, life… — Jack LaLanne
Winners expect to win before the contest starts; losers don't. Any individual becomes what he or she thinks about most. If you want to be… — Wade Schalles
We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you… — Anna Deavere Smith
When Bob came through Cincinnati, he wanted a girl singer to be on his show. There was a local contest, and my sister and I… — Rosemary Clooney
You have to believe in what you are saying. Maybe they will like it or not but they cannot contest that what you are saying… — Jean-Christophe Maillot
I didn't get hurt in the contest. I hurt it the next day. — Jimmy Piersall
I won the first contest I ever entered, when I was 6. — Ryan Sheckler
You know, I've occasionally tried to watch other shows besides Scrubs, but comparing them is a bit like me competing in the special Olympics. Obviously… — Zach Braff
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose… — Samuel Johnson
Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity replaces exclusivity and… — Jeremy Rifkin
Not only do we mock the Eurovision Song Contest itself, but we lampoon other European countries for taking it so seriously, and they all retaliate… — Unknown Author
Elections are not a beauty contest. It is all about tolerance. — Unknown Author
The greatest intensification of the horrors of war is a direct result of the democratisation of the State. So long as the army was a… — Herbert Read

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