Quotes About Competition

He'd wanted to show his past tormentor what he was capable of, but he also wanted to prove himself to everyone. Now everyone was in the kitchen.

pushed the little girl aside as he wedged his way to the water fountain. The kid turned around to find Mr. Jackson staring down at him. "I've

El resentimiento, para Nietzsche, es la emoción de envidia que sienten los impotentes ante los poderosos, pero es una emoción que suscita una especial creatividad, pues empuja a quienes no tienen poder a inventar un universo alternativo en el que ellos son los poderosos y sus competidores son patéticos.

They all espoused a return to preindustrial fabrication methods and a commitment to bringing good design to the masses. Yet they wound up producing objects—even those not made from intrinsically precious materials—that were so labor-intensive that they could never compete with machine-made items that the working class could afford, and thus became luxury goods for the rich.

Who ever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

Whoever said, It's not whether you win or lose that counts, probably lost.

Whoever said 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts' probably lost.

I came, he said. Good Lord! If there were an orator-of-the-year award, he would be in dire danger of winning it.

You know my powers, my dear Watson, and yet at the end of three months I was forced to confess that I had at last met an antagonist who was my intellectual equal.

I play the game for the game's own sake

Well, there was one thing which very soon struck me, and that was that the soldiers used always to lose and the civilians to win. Mind, I don't say there was anything unfair, but so it was.

ich so sehr eine Konkurrenz für Dich, wie eine Pfütze als Meer gilt

No intento vencer al hombre con el que estoy enfrentado-explicó-. Intento vencer su confianza. Una mente empañada por la duda no puede enfocar claramente el camino a la victoria. Dos hombres son iguales -verdaderamente iguales- solo cuando tienen el mismo grado de confianza en ellos Yamamoto Isoroku

The integrative powers of life are manifested in the phenomena of symbiosis between organelles, in the varied forms of partnership within the same species or between different species; in the phenomena of regeneration, in lower species, of complete individuals from their fragments; in the re-formation of scrambled embryonic organs, etc. The self-assertive tendency is equally ubiquitous in the competitive struggle for life.

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

If personal meaning, in this cheer leader society, lies in success, then failure must threaten identity itself.

But here Billy Chope arrived to demand what the 'ell Sam Cardew was doing with his gal. Now Sam was ever readier for a fight than Billy was; but the sum of Billy's half pints was large: wherefore the fight began. On the skirt of a hilarious ring Lizerunt, after some small outcry, triumphed aloud. Four days before, she had no bloke; and here she stood with two, and those two fighting for her! Here in the public gaze, on the Flats! For almost five minutes she was Helen of Troy.

The life of an individual is a constant struggle, and not merely a metaphorical one against want or boredom, but also an actual struggle against other people. He discovers adversaries everywhere, lives in continual conflict and dies with sword in hand.

For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

what every one most aims at in ordinary contact with his fellows is to prove them inferior to himself ...

For to kill a man in a fair fight, is to prove that you are superior to him in strength or skill; and to justify the deed, you must assume that the right of the stronger is really a right.

Dovunque e comunque si manifesti l'eccellenza, subito la generale mediocrità si allea e congiura per soffocarla.

No hay nada más implacable y cruel que la envidia: y sin embargo, ¡nos esforzamos incesante y principalmente en suscitar envidia!

He didn't know that in some places, like the country that Rahel came from, various kinds of despair competed for primacy. And that personal despair could never be desperate enough.