Competition Quotes

Being hated isn't easy, you know. You just cannot falter meeting their expectations.

~ Aniruddha Sastikar

Winners of some competition are not heroes, heroes are not found in the competition, heroes win much more severe battles than competition to become heroes.

~ Amit Kalantri

If it were easy it would not be any fun.

~ T Jay Taylor

There is a scene in one of the Rocky movies where after the match Apollo Creed and Rocky are waiting for the scoring of their brawl all beat up and battered, obviously both fighters gave all they had to win, and Apollo Creed says to Rocky - Your not getting a rematch and Rocky says I don't want one.I love that scene. That's when you know that you left no doubt - that your opponent, win or lose, never wants to compete against you ever again. That's fighting.

~ Johna Passaro

Putting down the power right from the whistle would be ugly and brutal, but it would get the job done. He wanted to tell her that, but this was the thing with coaching: you had to step back at exactly the moment you ached to step forward.

~ Chris Cleave

Seropusly, why do flies line up in the sky every time someone lies? Hovering over they long to take the shit out from where It belongs so They compete to eat it alive.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Alice wondered if her mother was aware that she wasn’t the only one in town who’d come down with a bad case of Blueberry Fever.

~ Sarah Weeks

We're doing it wrong, absolutely wrong! Miss Universe should be about Space Exploration, Miss World about Science and Miss Earth about Going Green!

~ Manasa Rao

The only competition that matters the most in life, is the one between you and your old self.

~ Hafiz

Living one's life as if it is a competition between oneself and others, is an inevitable path to a stressful life.

~ Hafiz

The only competition that matters the most, is competing to become better than your best old self.

~ Hafiz

Life is not a competition between you and others; rather, it's a journey to continuously make the very best out of your true abilities in life.

~ Hafiz

I believe Government should encourage competition, NOT prop up the weak when the going gets tough.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing.

~ Criss Jami

Life is not a competition with others. Life is a competition with yourself—to do your personal best each day.

~ Cameron C. Taylor

Oh,” she breathed. “How silly I’ve been.”“How silly we’ve all been,” said another of the wives. “We shouldn’t be fighting each other. Our problems don’t lie in any of the relationships we have with each other.”“The problem is our entire social system,” chimed in another.

~ Colleen Chen

You try to bring out the best in yourself so you can bring out the best in the person next to you.

~ Scott Van Pelt

If you learn to develop an abundant mentality you will not be envious of others, you will celebrate their successes, you share in their joys and pains; don't see life as a competition but a complimentary.

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Once there is realization of self challenge, ego versus soul, competition with others becomes futile.

~ T.f. Hodge

Before the battle begins and the outcome has been decided, let the adversary know that you are a fearless competitor, worthy of a second opinion.

~ Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

My entire life, I’ve never been able to understand the concept of not being happy or excited when others were successful or had something good happen to them. It quite honestly is a concept that I cannot grasp.

~ Dan Pearce

Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.

~ Haruki Murakami

Accepting defeat is not wisdom.

~ T.k. Kiser

In every competition, it's not just a great deal of talent that you need. Everyone who joins have that or else they would not be so confident to be in the race. Focus though is the one thing that most people don't have. So you have to stay the most focused. Do not stray from your goal. If you want to win the game, you have to be in the game.

~ Laarni Venus Marie Nillama

Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.

~ Abraham De Moivre

As Pacific Ocean nations, competition and cooperation between the two nations will create a new atmosphere—leading to the Birth of a ‘Pacific’ New World Order—that is more engaging and less confrontational; this can be characterized by the presence of force without war.

~ Patrick Mendis

Competition in spiritual matters brings confusion.

~ Kirby Clements

She transcends her sport, which is what any sport needs...And she does it while smiling the whole time. It's kind of a joke, but then again it's not, especially if you're a male pro trailing in her wake. To have this woman in the middle of such a suffer fest out there crushing people and smiling all the way...

~ Lance Armstrong

In the technological world...it is no longer a question of dominating nature or society in order to be more free or more happy, but of mastery for mastery's sake, of domination for the sake of domination. Why? For no end, precisely, or rather: because it is quite simply impossible to do otherwise, given the nature of societies entirely governed by competition, by the absolute imperative to 'advance or perish'.

~ Luc Ferry

A job interview is a competition won by those who are qualified the most, and, those who are willing to be payed the least.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all.

~ Criss Jami

Google, you fucking ripped off the iPhone, wholesale ripped us off. Grand theft. I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this. They are scared to death, because they know they are guilty. Outside of Search, Google’s products—Android, Google Docs—are shit. [Steve Jobs]

~ Walter Isaacson

Our teens are embedded in a culture driven by competition and perfectionism, where success is defined by status, performance and their appearance.

~ Auliq Ice

Two things compel me to move. First, the fear of being alone. I don’t want to be alone here. Second, the aching need to beat Blake in any way.

~ Alex Rosa

If after giving it all that you possibly can, you do lose to the competition, then they really deserve the win.

~ Nabil N. Jamal

I think of the friendships I've strained, the generosity I've exploited, the bridges I've torched. Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; with them, forgive yourself. There may be hope for me yet.

~ Anthony Ervin

Competition is often conflated with capitalism, but they are not at all the same. Capitalism involves private ownership of the means of production and distribution, but the word implies nothing about the way in which privately owned firms do business. Capitalism is perfectly compatible with a society in which a powerful state doles out favors to private monopolies, protects some enterprises from others, or even sets the prices privately owned firms may charge for their products. Indeed, while capitalists tend to praise the virtues of competition, many of them would just as soon avoid it.

~ Marc Levinson

As these contrasts show, capitalism has undergone enormous changes in the last two and a half centuries. While some of Smith’s basic principles remain valid, they do so only at very general levels.For example, competition among profit-seeking firms may still be the key driving force of capitalism, as in Smith’s scheme. But it is not between small, anonymous firms which, accepting consumer tastes, fight it out by increasing the efficiency in the use of given technology. Today, competition is among huge multinational companies, with the ability not only to influence prices but to redefine technologies in a short span of time (think about the battle between Apple and Samsung) and to manipulate consumer tastes through brand-image building and advertising.

~ Ha-Joon Chang

Let us compete with ourselves, not with others.

~ Debasish Mridha

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

~ Willie Nelson