Quotes About Competition

He was one of those men whom success never mollified, whose enjoyment of a point gained always demanded some hoarse note of triumph from his own trumpet.

By the time she had caught the flamingo and brought it back, the fight was over

It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! - alice and wonderland

were placed along the course, here and there. There was no 'One, two, three, and away,' but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over. However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the

It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.

Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

Taylor clapped three times for attention. Ladies! Ladies! My stars! That's enough. Now. We all know Miss Arkansas's girls are fake, Miss Ohio's easier than making cereal, and Miss Montana's dress is something my blind meemaw would wear to bingo night. - Beauty Queens

I knew it. You're an alien," said her former best friend, the pale, bespectacled creature with the spectacular cleavage. "Yes, I'm an alien and I still made cheerleader. And now I'm going to steal your boyfriend to prove girls can't really be friends." "I sat back timidly when you torched my house, killed my parents, and ate my dog. But now you're stealing my boyfriend? That's a step too far!

What happened to the winner Adina asked. She tripped. And the first runner-up? Miss Michigan cracked her knuckles. She tripped, too.

Her eyes take on that suspicious, wounded look girls get when they know they've fallen off the top rung of friendship and someone else has passed them, but they don't know when or how the change took place.

I am for hockey. I find I should like to hit something with a stick. -Gemma Doyle Trilogy

Bitches will take your ass down if you try to publish that. Peace out.

Creostus's booming laugh leaves gooseflesh upon my arms. He paces close to me. "Jealous, Priestess? Do you wish to compete for my affections? I should like to see that." "I'm sure you would. But you will die first and so let us journey to Philon, if you please.

Feels like we've been in training for the wrong pageant," Nicole said with a sigh.

it's unsportsmanlike to engage in a battle of wits with anyone who is obviously unarmed.

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

You didn't think I'd let the backstabbing little hussy get away with it, did you? Not that I don't love Jenni, but she's the baby of the family, and she thinks she should get anything and everything she wants. Occasionally she has to be shown differently.

In the rest room next door there was a long, explosive sound of gas releasing, then a contented 'Ahhh.' Grace clapped a hand over her mouth to hold back the hysterical giggle that rose in her throat. She had to finish before he did, or he might hear her. The competition was the strangest in which she'd ever engaged.

Sandy laughed, and I realized that I liked her, in spite of everything. Yes, she was beautiful. Yes, Sonterra obviously thought she was hot. But that didn't mean she and I were automatic enemies, duty-bound to compete. That was not my typical approach to life and femininity, and I suspected it wasn't hers, either.

Rather than compete for what was never meant for you . . . you would have the energy to discover what is yours.

The academic world is competitive. For ideas, grants, students, funding.

Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you're out on your own.

Aiming at giving our kids a competitive edge in a consumer society - that, in principle, is a goal that is limitless.

Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.