Rivals Quotes

• Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Fear, Pride, Competition

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• Work until your idols become your rivals

  G-Dragon

  Idols

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• I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

  Jean Racine

  Embrace

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• The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

  Djuna Barnes

  Jealous, Heart, Imperfection

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.70, Faber & Faber

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Fall, Temporary Insanity

  Poor Richard's Almanack, May 1738

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• Fame is a jealous mistress
  And will brook no rival.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Jealous, Mistress, Fame

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• There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The successful one has this over his rivals: he knows where he is going.

  Mark Cane

  Successful, Goal, Different

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• Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Buddhist, Ambition

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• I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals.

  Hermann Maier

  Winning, Race, Too Much

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• Don't divide the world into "them" and "us."

  Donald Rumsfeld

  World, Resentment, Infatuation

  Donald Rumsfeld (2004). “The World According to Rummy”, Welcome Rain Publishers

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• The good is the greatest rival of the best.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Goodness

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.31, University of Toronto Press

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• There are no term limits on His reign. He has always been King and He always will be King. There is no death that threatens the perpetuity of His sovereign authority. There is no usurping of power by a lesser rival to His throne. There are no coups, no revolutions (at least, none that succeed). There is no threat of impeachment. He is a King who rules eternally.

  Sam Storms

  Kings, Reign, Limits

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• Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Success, Wisdom

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.143, Penguin

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• In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

  Virgil Thomson

  Crush, Paris, Florence

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• Don't divide the world into 'them' and 'us.' Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Jobs, World, Opponents

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• There is more jealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. But in both cases there must be pretensions, or there will be no jealousy.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sex, Vanity, Cases

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.110

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• The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended.

  J. K. Bharavi

  Flying, Enmity, Beast

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• When it comes to girl bands, we're all rivals.

  Jenny Frost

  Girl, Band

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• Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Educational, Ideas, Words Of Wisdom

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• In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Love, Ambition, Successful

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.140

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• She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Headstrong, Allegory

  The Rivals act 3, sc. 3 (1775)

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• A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Knowledge, Tree, Library

  1775 Sir Anthony Absolute. The Rivals, act 1, sc.2.

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• Modeling is a tough job, your co-workers are your rivals, it really puts a damper on your perspective of other girls.

  Adriana Lima

  Girl, Jobs, Perspective

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Comic books themselves are getting more literate. And there are people who are screenwriters and television writers and novelists who are writing for the comics, for some reason, they love doing it and some of the art work in the comics, I mean it rivals anything you'll see hanging on the walls of museums, they're illustrations more than drawings and all the people are discovering this and they're turning on to it.

  Stan Lee

  Art, Wall, Book

  Source: movieweb.com

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• He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Love, Encounters, Advantage

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 10, 1799.

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