Competition Quotes

• Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

  Paul Tournier

  Positive, Sports, Confidence

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• And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Business, Insperational

  1889 'The Gospel of Wealth', in the North American Review, Jun.

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• There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  "The Little Book of Romanian Wisdom". Book edited by Diana Doroftei and Matthew Cross, 2011.

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• We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!

  John F. Kennedy

  Want, Firsts, Ifs

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  The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  As quoted in"Be Free!: Keys to Success and Happiness in Every Aspect of Your Life" by Slavica Bogdanov, (p. 45), October 12, 2012.

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• An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

  Patti Smith

  Artist

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• When the game is over I just want to look at myself in the mirror, win or lose, and know I gave it everything I had.

  Joe Montana

  Winning, Mirrors, Games

  Joe Montana, Bob Raissman (1990). “Audibles My Life in Football”, Avon Books

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• My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.

  Lorna Luft

  Sister, My Sister, Felt

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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• The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Envy, Ancient, Praise

  'Leviathan' (1651) 'A Review and Conclusion'

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• Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.

  Henry J. Kaiser

  Inspirational, Motivational Sports, Monday

  "The Reader's Digest" by DeWitt Wallace, ‎Lila Acheson Wallace, Vol. 56, p. 18, January 1950.

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• The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Work, Law, Luxury

  Andrew Carnegie (2014). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and His Essay The Gospel of Wealth”, p.278, Courier Corporation

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• Life is a competition not with others, but with ourselves. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives; each day to master some weakness of yesterday; each day to repair a mistake; each day to surpass ourselves.

  David B. Haight

  Life, Mistake, Yesterday

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• Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.

  Lee R. Raymond

  Country, Technology, Years

  "Ethics, Enterprise, and the Multinational Corporation". Interview with Lee R. Raymond, acton.org. July 20, 2010.

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• You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform

  Natalie

  Gains, Steps, Step Up

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• The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.

  Gregg Allman

  Band, Incredibles

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• And I've always - the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you're too busy worrying about the competition, you don't focus enough on what you're doing.

  Katie Couric

  Jobs, Thinking, Worry

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• Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Sports, Coveting, Tradition

  "The Latest Decalogue" l. 19 (1862)

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• In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.

  Helmut Jahn

  Artist, Winning, Thinking

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• One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.

  Edwin Moses

  Beats, Competitors, Majors

  Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. July 1, 2002.

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• Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.

  Lamar S. Smith

  Wages, Study, Shows

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• Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Farewell, People, Nerves

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• It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

  Frank Shorter

  Softball, Sports, Athlete

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• I look at sport and competition as something that has been personally enormously beneficial to me. It's helped me create life skills. And if we carry ourselves with grace and dignity and try our best - even when we fall on our faces, as will happen sometimes - then I think people will see that. And that will be the message of sport and the Olympics.

  Joey Cheek

  Sports, Fall, Thinking

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• There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Two, Stronger, Pakistan

  Speech at Islamia College for women, March 25, 1940.

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