100 Quotes About Competition

Hmm…” Jason snapped his fingers. “I can call a friend for a ride.” Percy raised his eyebrows. “Oh, yeah? Me too. Let's see whose friend gets here first. Rick Riordan

Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser. Toba Beta

CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler. M O R P H E U S: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, wolf-stabbing. C H O R O N Z O N: I am a horsefly, horse-stinging, hunter-throwing. M O R P H E U S: I am a spider, fly-consuming, eight legged. C H O R O N Z O N: I am a snake, spider-devouring, posion-toothed. M O R P H E U S: I am an ox, snake-crushing, heavy-footed. C H O R O N Z O N: I am an anthrax, butcher bacterium, warm-life destroying. M O R P H E U S: I am a world, space-floating, life-nurturing. C H O R O N Z O N: I am a nova, all-exploding.. planet-cremating. M O R P H E U S: I am the Universe -- all things encompassing, all life embracing., Dreamlord?MORPHEUS: I am hope. Neil Gaiman

Has she glanced you way yet?" Twice, " Nick said on a note of satisfaction. Meaning?" Nick glanced at him. "She's not completely disinterested." I see Moreland. That makes it an even half dozen hanging out for a rich wife. Four looking for their second. Rossman, the old satyr, certainly isn't likely to be much competition. What in the hell does he think he's doing anyway? He must be sixty." Basking, I should think. She hasn't given him the cold shoulder yet, " Nick responded coolly. Jaide Fox

Jillian had charged into the bathroom on seven, but she just shot straight to ten. Her nature may be reserved, but she didn’t take shit off anybody. “Don’t patronize me. And don’t you dare come down here and judge us! ” She pointed her finger directly at AJ. “We’re the ones doing the heavy lifting, so people like you can come along at the very end and ride along on our coattails. You can act tough all you want, but it’s just an act, AJ. You, with your expensive suits and shiny shoes, ” she sneered. “You wouldn’t survive one minute out there on those streets. You’re weak.” Before she realized what was about to happen, AJ seized her by the shoulders and threw her against the wall. Pinning her with her own body, she pressed her index finger over Jillian’s lips. “That’s enough.” Those glittering green eyes warned Jillian not to say another word. The impact had completely knocked the breath out of her. AJ pressed her body tighter into hers, preventing Jillian from taking a replenishing breath, so she breathed short shallow breaths through her nose. Her heart pounded. What was happening? She wasn’t in control of the situation, and oddly enough, for once she didn’t want to be. She had just been manhandled, yet she had no desire to fight back. Instead, she wanted to hook her leg around AJ’s waist and draw her closer to where AJ’s heat seared her core. Kat Evans

Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don’t like it. Umberto Eco

I don't compete against other women. To uplift others means I'm never looking down on them. I applaud their strength, and I remind them that we never know how strong we are until we are tested. And this life will test you... But it's not a competition. I want us all to make it. Alfa H

I don't know where this pressure came from. I can't blame my parents because it has always felt internal. Like any other parent, my mother celebrated the A grades and the less-than- A grades she felt there was no need to tell anybody about. But not acknowledging the effort that ended in a less than perfect result impacted me as a child. If I didn't win, then we wouldn't tell anyone that I had even competed to save us the embarrassment of acknowledging that someone else was better. Keeping the secret made me think that losing was something to be ashamed of, and that unless I was sure I was going to be the champion there was no point in trying. And there was certainly no point to just having fun. . Portia De Rossi

To succeed in this competition means finding yourself in a place where you call the shots and get the gains. This is not an easy feat, unless you are born into it. if you are not, you will need to out-smart your equals. You need to be more ambitious than they are. You need to work harder. You need to look better and smarter. You need to justify why it should be you and not them. It’s a competition. Emi Iyalla

Rather than reacting to every obstacle or dashed expectation, incorporate the event into your overall plan. Real life setbacks like rejections, broken promises, and unfair disadvantages will happen. Rethink the meaning behind the emotional triggers and how your reaction will further your purpose. Manage emotions by recognizing their place, but do not allow them to control your moves. Alisa Melekhina

Sympathetic joy is a practice. It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that most of us have learned along the way, the idea that happiness is a competition, and that someone else is grabbing all the joy. Sharon Salzberg

All close friendships are marked with competition. Our earliest tests are against our siblings and playmates, and some of that rivalry endures amongst friends into adulthood. Like dogs play fighting, you learn not to bite hard. Christopher Bollen

I hated reunions. It made myself felt so little afterwards. When I was there, I couldn’t help not knowing. But after I knew things, I couldn’t stop comparing. I was congratulating people when they told me the good news, but deep inside I was wondering whether their good news was better than mine. Life wasn’t supposed to be a competition, but it really felt like one. Marcella Purnama

Female competition is when you are with a guy you like and you look around, see that you're the prettiest girl in the vicinity and feel a huge sense of relief that there's no one to take the attention away from you. (Female competition is a result of women feeling like their greatest sense of self worth , identity and influence comes from their sexual appeal to men. Many women don't even realise they are feeling this way and it's a subconscious thing, but they notice themselves getting jealous when they see other women who they think men would find sexually appealing.) . Miya Yamanouchi

If we want to be free [get liberated], don’t compete. As long as there is competition, the other person will hide his faults and we will hide ours. Dada Bhagwan

There is worldly life where there is competition and where there is no competition, there is ‘Gnan’, (true) Knowledge. Dada Bhagwan

Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it. Criss Jami

I compete every moment, and my competition is only with myself. Debasish Mridha

Remember, you don’t compete with anyone, you make them compete with you. You can control what you put on yourself; you can’t control what the other guy puts on you. So you focus only on the internal pressure that drives you. Run to it, embrace it, feel it, so no one else can throw more at you than you’ve already put on yourself. Tim S Grover

You will never win an unfair competition since the reward is meaningless. Cass Van Krah

The secret to unseating great power, is not to move the other direction, but to compete directly against their goals. Bryant McGill

Runner up is champion of the losers. Raheel Farooq

No one here to count your Qualities, but everyone is good enough to point out your Mistakes. Shashank Rayal

Be that kind of girl who smiles when you walk past other girls instead of casting a dirty look. Don't buy into the notion of female competition that society so heavily promotes. Miya Yamanouchi

Genuine self esteem — please understand this — genuine self esteem is not competitive or comparative. Genuine self esteem isn’t expressed by self-glorification at the expense of others, or by trying to make yourself superior to everyone else, or diminishing others in order to elevate yourself. Arrogance, boastfulness, the overestimation of your abilities, reflect low self esteem, even though we’re often encouraged to believe the opposite. In human beings, joy in the simple fact of existence is a core meaning of healthy self esteem. Thus understood, how can you possibly have too much of it? . Nathaniel Branden

Most people, the minute they meet you, were sizing you up for some competition for resources. It was as if everyone lived in fear of a shipwreck, where only so many people would fit on the lifeboat, and they were constantly trying to stake out their property and identify dispensable people — people they could get rid of.. Everyone is trying to reassure themselves: I'm not going to get kicked off the boat, they are. They're always separating people into two groups, allies and dispensable people.. The number of people who want to understand what you're like instead of trying to figure out whether you get to stay on the boat - it's really limited. Elif Batuman

.....My race is Photofinish. Farooq A. Shiekh

Strength should always be complimented by softness. If you resist too much, you will break. Thus, the strong person knows when to use strength and when to yield, and good fortune and disaster depend on whether you know how and when to yield. Liezi

One of the most powerful lessons in life is to recognize that no one can give you power, and many people don’t want you to have it. You have to find the courage to seize it, own it and hold on! Shannon L. Alder

Of course, competition against others is there, but it should serve to challenge you. To show you how well other people are competing against themselves. Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

..it is the fear of the past; a fear not merely of the evil in the past, but of the good in the past also. The brain breaks down under the unbearable virtue of mankind. There have been so many flaming faiths that we cannot hold; so many harsh heroisms that we cannot imitate; so many great efforts of monumental building or of military glory which seems to us at once sublime and pathetic. The future is a refuge from the fierce competition of our forefathers. . G.k. Chesterton

Empowered Women 101: Only an insecure woman with control issues will look outside her relationship and say other people are to blame for her husband's lack of focus, love and respect. A real woman knows that the problem isn't other people; it is her man. If he truly loved you he wouldn't have ever made you an option and went looking for what he felt you didn't have. Don't waste your time trying to convince someone to see your worth by destroying others. There will always be someone prettier, smarter, more spiritual and more accomplished than you to distract this person. A real woman knows her worth and will never have to train anyone to recognize it. Shannon L. Alder

Social media is like reunion, but the catching up is done through the comfort of your own bed. Scrolling through photos and statuses are too easy to not be done. You know about their social life and where they’ve been last weekend. Then you wonder why they have such flawless hair and make up. How could they look so effortlessly awesome? Marcella Purnama

Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly. Brandon Sanderson

On one level, a roomful of men is always a dangerous thing. Competition is usually in the air, so the potential for violence is always nearby. Brennan Manning

But it's natural for men to compete against each other. We've been doing it since the cave days. Why else do we have wars? Wars are competition, no matter what the politicians call them. Iris Johansen

A true friend does not make you win by making you the winner to the detriment of the true winner. He makes sure that you become a loser, not because he likes the way you fail, but to enlighten you on how it feels to be treated that way and to demonstrate that love and respect are not exclusive. Michael Bassey Johnson

My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition about. Oscar Wilde

Managers’ responsibility is to ensure that people deliver the expected results, which are the company’s strategy. The company’s strategy, in turn, determines its competitive advantage. So, if a manager does a poor job of motivating employees’ productivity, the enterprise is a weak competitor. Unknown

...every year for decades there had been great excitement over the Largest Vegetable competition ("That would be my husband", was the standard comment). G.M. Malliet

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. – It is not fair. – He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people’s mouths. – I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it – but fear I must. Jane Austen

[Lizzie Bennington to a reporter who has asked for her opinion about Jack Archer's celebrated thighs.] “When you come back from a set down and bring the match to a final set tiebreak and are a point away from winning the match, only to have what looks like an extremely fit player call a time out because of a cramp and then watch that player sit back and casually converse and laugh while you do your best to keep your mental focus and your body moving so you don’t grow cold and cramp yourself, I hardly think you’d concern yourself with his burgeoning manhood, let alone his thighs! . A.G. Starling

He was working that charm right now on the trainer who kneeled before him and touched his thigh as though it were the thigh of David, Michelangelo’s glorious statue come to life right here on court. A.G. Starling

The pinnacle of human consciousness must be the rejection of unhealthy competition, war and violence. Bryant McGill

When you become self aware, you know your uniqueness, strengths, and limitations too. You become easy to work with others. You also avoid competing with others unhealthily. Assegid Habtewold

The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960. Charles Murray

Competition to further the world of pursuing ego=bad. Competition to improve both capabilities and processes = good. Pearl Zhu

Being hated isn't easy, you know. You just cannot falter meeting their expectations. Aniruddha Sastikar

Good tennis players are those who beat other tennis players, and a good shot during play is one the opponent can't return. But that's not a truth about life or excellence -- it's a truth about tennis. We've created an artificial structure in which one person can't succeed without doing so at someone else's expense, and then we accuse anyone who prefers other kinds of activities of being naive because "there can be only one best -- you're it or you're not, " as the teacher who delivered that much-admired you're-not-special commencement speech declared. You see the sleight of hand here? The question isn't whether everyone playing a competitive game can win or whether every student can be above average. Of course they can't. The question that we're discouraged from asking is why our games are competitive -- or our students are compulsively ranked against one another -- in the first place. Alfie Kohn

Alice wondered if her mother was aware that she wasn’t the only one in town who’d come down with a bad case of Blueberry Fever. Sarah Weeks

Life is not a competition between you and others; rather, it's a journey to continuously make the very best out of your true abilities in life. Unknown

I believe Government should encourage competition, NOT prop up the weak when the going gets tough. Ziad K. Abdelnour

Life is not a competition with others. Life is a competition with yourself–to do your personal best each day. Cameron C. Taylor

My entire life, I’ve never been able to understand the concept of not being happy or excited when others were successful or had something good happen to them. It quite honestly is a concept that I cannot grasp. Dan Pearce

In every competition, it's not just a great deal of talent that you need. Everyone who joins have that or else they would not be so confident to be in the race. Focus though is the one thing that most people don't have. So you have to stay the most focused. Do not stray from your goal. If you want to win the game, you have to be in the game. Unknown

Our teens are embedded in a culture driven by competition and perfectionism, where success is defined by status, performance and their appearance. Auliq Ice

I think of the friendships I've strained, the generosity I've exploited, the bridges I've torched. Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; with them, forgive yourself. There may be hope for me yet. Anthony Ervin

Homo economicus was surreptitiously taken as the emblem and analogue for all living beings. A mechanistic anthropomorphism has gained currency. Bacteria are imagined to mimic "economic" behavior and to engage in internecine competition for the scarce oxygen available in their environment. A cosmic struggle among ever more complex forms of life has become the anthropic foundational myth of the scientific age. . Ivan Illich

Be careful... any time you find yourself defining the "winner" as someone other than the agent who is currently smiling from on top of a giant heap of utility. Eliezer Yudkowsky

Be careful... any time you find yourself defining the "winner" as someone other than the agent who is currently smiling from on top of a giant heap of utility Eliezer Yudkowsky

...if the verses are for a literary competition, your grace should try to win second place; first is always won through favor or because of the high estate of the person, second is won because of pure justice, and by this calculation third becomes second, and the first becomes third... Unknown

It did not occur to Adya that like being competitive during exam times, while being competitive in matters of life also the boys would actually tend to ditch their female counterparts in little little matters and get things their way. Anuradha Bhattacharyya

Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights. Shannon L. Alder

It is not important how many competitions you have attended, it only matters how many you have won. M.F. Moonzajer

Jealousy is love in competition. Toba Beta

If you just can’t get rid of envy, then start creating a life, so that if you saw yourself from afar, you’d be envious of you. Charles F. Glassman

Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Try not to see it as an invitation to compete. Andrena Sawyer

Understanding industry structure is also essential to effective strategic positioning P. 26 Michael E. Porter

Understanding the competitive forces, and their underlying causes, reveals the roots of an industry’s current profitability while providing a framework for anticipating and influencing competition (and profitability) over time. P. 26 Michael E. Porter

The strongest competitive force or forces determine the profitability of an industry and become the most important to strategy formulation. The most salient force, however, is not always obvious. P. 26 Michael E. Porter

If the forces are intense, (..) almost no company earns attractive returns on investment. If the forces are benign, (..) many companies are profitable. P. 25 Michael E. Porter

What distinguishes a true competitor from a mere participant is that the competitor derives enjoyment from the nature of the competition aside from the prize at the end. She gets a rush from the gaming dynamics and appreciates the beauty of the game. At the end of the day, you play for the love of the game or not at all. Alisa Melekhina

In essence, the job of the strategist is to understand and cope with competition. P. 25 Michael E. Porter

Competitive forces = the underlying drivers of profitability P.25 Michael E. Porter

Strategy is about out-thinking your competition. Mark Zuckerberg, while at Harvard, built a website called Facemash ‘for fun’. Even today, Facebook believe that ‘done is better than perfect’. Max McKeown

The smart business person sees an opportunity to generate referrals by collaborating with their competitors. Timothy M. Houston

I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision. Amit Kalantri

If you are a winner by the judgements of few judges and not by your performance, you are not a real winner. Amit Kalantri

Only dead mathematics can be taught where competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession. Mary Everest Boole

In real life, it is very important to be able to see a tiny difference between need for speed or just want to overtake. Toba Beta

To the consummate competitor, winning is not the same as beating your opponents. Winning is playing to your absolute best; beating others is a corollary effect, not the primary goal. Alisa Melekhina

A winner has more skills than a loser, " Vor said, "no matter how you define the competition. Brian Herbert

Winning isn't about finishing in first place. It isn't about beating the others. It is about overcoming yourself. Overcoming your body, your limitations, and your fears. Winning means surpassing yourself and turning your dreams into reality. Kilian Jornet

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work, and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition there. Indira Gandhi