Rivalry Quotes

• Great rivalries don't have to be built on hatred. They're built on respect, on a respect for excellence.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Hatred, Excellence, Built

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• One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

  Henry Adams

  Friendship, Real, Two

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Fighting, Trying

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• Insecurity is at the heart of every rivalry.

  Beth Moore

  Heart, Insecurity

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• Life is not a competition with others. In its truest sense it is a rivalry with ourselves. We should each day seek to break the record of our yesterday. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives; each day to master some weakness of yesterday; each day to repair past follies; each day to surpass...ourselves. And this is but progress.

  William George Jordan

  Life, Past, Yesterday

  William George Jordan (1913). “The Power of Truth”

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• Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Add, Charm, Conquest

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.5102, Delphi Classics

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• There are no frictions between us, there is only rivalry.

  Edward VII

  Friction

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  A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

  Ovid

  Motivational, Running, Horse

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.343, Delphi Classics

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• Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Death, Traders, Trade

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• Records don’t mean anything in rivalry games.

  Dez Bryant

  Mean, Games, Records

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• Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

  Honore de Balzac

  Daughter, Children, Ambition

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• What rivalry? I win all the matches.

  Martina Hingis

  Winning, Tennis, Funny Tennis

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• Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Disposition, Produce

  Samuel Johnson (2010). “Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.38, Canongate Books

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• Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins.

  Josh Billings

  Envy, Twins

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• When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.

  Arsene Wenger

  Stupid, Intelligent, People

  "Mourinho reveals Wenger dossier". news.bbc.co.uk. November 2, 2005.

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• The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.

  Eric Cantona

  Team, Thinking, Long

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• Rivalry doesn't help anybody.

  Peter Jackson

  Helping

  "Peter Jackson: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 11, 2009.

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• The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Way, Energy, Social

  Charles Horton Cooley (1922). “Human Nature and the Social Order”

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• Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Injustice, Economic

  Harry S. Truman (2014). “1945: Year of Decision”, p.337, New Word City

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• One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

  Henry Adams

  Friendship, True Friend, Two

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people, to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since we are united by the same language, the same blood and the same visions.

  Alexander the Great

  Brother, Fighting, Fate

  "Historiae Alexandri Magni (Histories of Alexander the Great)". Book by Quintus Curtius Rufus, 2005.

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• A society which discards those who are weak and non-productive risks exaggerating the development of reason, organisation, aggression and the desire to dominate. It becomes a society without a heart, without kindness - a rational and sad society, lacking celebration, divided within itself and given to competition, rivalry and, finally, violence.

  Jean Vanier

  Kindness, Heart, Competition

  Jean Vanier (2008). “Man and Woman, God Made Them”, p.189, Paulist Press

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• It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

  Joseph Addison

  Greatness, Age, Matter

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1873). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.425

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• When I looked at the state of women's MMA, what I saw was that it was missing rivalries or anything theatrical about it. Everybody was trying to be Miss America, unwilling to go under any kind of criticism, and taking the safe answers. I thought I needed to do whatever I could to get attention.

  Ronda Rousey

  Mma, America, Missing

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• It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works; they have eyes only for spots and blemishes.

  Joseph Addison

  Eye, Impossible, Spots

  Joseph Addison (1761). “The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;”, p.63

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