Quotes About Competition

I heard a woman scream with rage and frustration and then grunt like a tennis player.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals Himself.

Shoot a lower score than everybody else

"I play with friends, but we don't play friendly games.

I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games

If you can't outplay them, outwork them.

Like any two men or man-children meeting in the playground or the marketplace they quickly, almost instantly, calculated who could take the other.

At the age of nineteen, Gordievsky took up cross-country running. Something about the solitary nature of the sport appealed to him, the rhythm of intense exertion over a long period, in private competition with himself, testing his own limits.

Some creatures have a low survival rate, and so the world produces far too many of them, and as they fight among each other to live they grow more savage, more base, more dull, and the winners, the survivors, are distinctly unappealing little beings.

They made me think. Everything has to fight to live. Rats work very hard. If we are not careful they will inherit the earth.

Our lunch conversation turned quickly to the game

firms would do what they could to stay away.

might result only in banking activity moving out of the United States to foreign financial centers.

Instead, morality must be boiled down to mere competition of interests, and the desire of human beings to avoid suffering and untimely death. In a state of nature, "nothing can be Unjust. The notions of Right and Wrong, Justice and Injustice have there no place. Where there is no common Power, there is no Law; where no Law, no Injustice."5 If moral relativism began anywhere, it began in Hobbes.

But it's because conservatives don't think about how to win that they constantly lose.

It therefore comes to pass that everyone is fond of relating his own exploits and displaying the strength both of his body and his mind, and that men are on this account a nuisance one to the other.

Vivimos de prisa, y, como nuestra existencia es cada día más corta en razón á la celeridad con que caminamos, naturalmente queremos abarcar mucho y muchas cosas en breve tiempo, siempre ante el temor de llegar demasiado tarde y de que otros nos lleven la delantera.

There is no gambling like politics.

People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.

La guerre est antérieure au commerce ; car la guerre et le commerce ne sont que deux moyens différents d'atteindre le même but : celui de posséder ce que l'on désire.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Your Business is to shine; therefore you must by all means prevent the shining of others, for their Brightness may make yours the less distinguished.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals