Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
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.
Work until your idols become your rivals
Of two heroes, he who esteems his rivals the most is the greatest.
I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.
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.
Fame is a jealous mistress And will brook no rival.
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
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.
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
The good is the greatest rival of the best.
I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals.
Don't divide the world into "them" and "us."
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.
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.
We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
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.
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.
When it comes to girl bands, we're all rivals.
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
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.
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline which rivals and even betters Tokyo.
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