Contests Quotes

335 quotes by 287 authors

Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took. — Frankie Avalon
Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the… — Robert Genn
Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares? — Robert Genn
In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval. — Gerald R. Ford
I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to… — Theodore Roosevelt
So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving the thrusts of… — Erasmus Darwin
If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of… — Theodore Roosevelt
To know John Kennedy, as I did, was to understand the true meaning of the word. He understood that courage is not something to be… — Gerald R. Ford
Good advertising is a happy wedding of words and pictures, not a contest between them. — Leo Burnett
We are already engaged in World War III. It is a war against nature, and it is simply no contest. As a result, the threat… — Norman Myers
You can't enter a contest emotionally charged. It clouds your judgment, it clouds your reaction. — Conor McGregor
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 fact is, the contest has always been invulnerability, and even when you win, you still lose. — Brenna Yovanoff
There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain. It is subject… — Charles Caleb Colton
We're not encouraging idols other than on the TV show, you know and that's the wrong way to do it. If we had become famous… — Billy Bob Thornton
I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike. — James A. Garfield
We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win. — Edward Gibbon
Marketing is a contest for people's attention. — Seth Godin
I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest. — Al Gore
The presidency is more than a popularity contest. — Al Gore

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