Rivals Quotes

254 Rivals quotes by 232 unique authors

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can… — Abraham Maslow
Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me. — Jack Nicklaus
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. — John Boyd Orr
That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the… — John Podhoretz
If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful. — Michael Porter
I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him. — Jean Racine
Don't divide the world into 'them' and 'us.' Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts.… — Donald Rumsfeld
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory. — Salman Rushdie
This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to… — Salman Rushdie
We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America. — Howard Schultz
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. — Fulton J. Sheen
If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival… — Wallace Stevens
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise. — Virgil Thomson
Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself. — Henry A. Wallace
Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals. — E. O. Wilson
The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore. — Fred Wilson
The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other… — Robert Anton Wilson
The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville. — Kristi Yamaguchi
Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work.… — Helen Fisher
He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored. — John Irving
Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone. — Lance Armstrong
How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Keep your friends close — and your rivals even closer. — Nelson Mandela
Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded… — Sam Harris

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