Quotes About Competition

But it's natural for men to compete against each other. We've been doing it since the cave days. Why else do we have wars? Wars are competition, no matter what the politicians call them.

Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.

Politics is merely war by other means.-an old Andorian saying

The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.

We only win at war because we fight another government. If we fought private industry we would not last until noontime.

Most sorts of diversion in men children and other animals are in imitation of fighting.

A married couple that plays cards together is just a fight that hasn't started yet.

In 1996, the players at the VSB tournament in Amsterdam sent me a card for my wedding with this dedication, 'Anand congrats on your wedding. You were a great player, now be ready to lose 50 points'.

It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.

Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.

You try too hard. Winners forget they're in a race. They just love to run.

The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.

Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.

The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding.

The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.

His father, Joshua Wooden, had repeatedly stressed he should never try to be better than someone else, but that he should never cease to try and become the best that he could be.

The most effective way to win power is to deride, ridicule, and then persecute your competition. The majority turns on the minority, and persecution is accomplished even more quickly if all the evils which beset the majority are attributed to the minority.

All this, sadly enough, is truer of the more educated, higher-income, professional families. It is here that the competition is the greatest, the expectations most elevated. If the boy would be happier as a telephone linesman or a forest ranger, he is in a hopeless bind. His goals have been set for him by his milieu, and he cannot be his own man; so he simply refuses to play the game. He "does not try.

Coping with competition requires understanding that winning and losing are always temporary occurrences. Children who learn to lose without being devastated and use failure experiences to grow will begin to achieve in the classroom and in society.

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

Black Friday: because only in America people trample each other for sales exactly one day after being thankful for what they already have.

He who dies with the most toys wins.

Dude did you come here to lecture or to fight? BRING IT ON." -Slam Dunk

In my neighborhood, gossip is a competitive sport that's been raised to Olympic standard, and I never diss gossip; I revere it with all my heart.