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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• 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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• Work until your idols become your rivals

  G-Dragon

  Idols

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• Of two heroes, he who esteems his rivals the most is the greatest.

  Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle

  Hero, Two, Esteem

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

  Jean Racine

  Embrace

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• There live a great man named Joe
  who was belittled by a loudmouth foe.
  While his rival would taunt and tease
  Joe silently bore the stings.
  And then fought like gladiator in the ring.

  Muhammad Ali

  Men, Tease, Bores

  "The Soul of a Butterfly". Book by Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali, 2004.

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

  Thiruvalluvar

  Jealous, Mistress, Fame

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Enemy, May, Deceiving

  "Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources". Book by James Wood, 1899.

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• If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.

  Michael Porter

  Successful, Trying, Unlikely

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

  Jenny Frost

  Girl, Band

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• Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Fighting, Trying

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• The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.

  Thomas Huxley

  Struggle, Science, Thinking

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.229, Cambridge University Press

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• Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

  E. O. Wilson

  Struggle, Religion, Atheism

  "Consilience". Book by Edward Osborne Wilson, 1998.

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• Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one.

  Dennis Bergkamp

  Sports, Two, Together

  Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.

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