Motivational Quotes

Competition

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost -- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

- Carnegie, Andrew

Best Quotes about Competition

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

Wriston, Walter

Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.

Gladiator's Salute

After the game the King and pawn go into the same box.

Proverb, Italian

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.

Horne, William Van

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

Morris, William

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

Durocher, Leo

How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of [American] students have learned to critique tactfully?

Alexander, Barbara J.

Carnegie, Andrew

10.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

11.

I ski to win. When the day comes that I can't get myself into a fighting mood anymore, I won't be able to win and I'll stop racing.

Stenmark, Ingemar

12.

We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!

Kennedy, John F.

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

14.

To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.

Beecher, Marguerite

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last. It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

Kersee, Jackie Joyner

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My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The weakness of an enemy forms part of our own strength.

Saying

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I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.

Richards, Bob

20.

Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

21.

Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.

Jipcho, Ben

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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Lamb, Charles

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The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

Sampras, Pete

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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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You must sacrifice, train, do everything possible to put yourself in a position to win. But if you consider second or third a failure, I feel sorry for you.

Falcon, Joe

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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

27.

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

Trevino, Lee

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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

29.

World trade means competition from anywhere; advancing technology encourages cross-industry competition.Consequently, strategic planning must consider who our future competitors will be, not only who is here today.

Allison, Eric

30.

The Law of Win Win says, Let's not do it your way or my way; let's do it the best way.

Anderson, Greg

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The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead, never let up.

Laver, Rod

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If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

Tarkenton, Fran

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The game isn't over until it's over.

Berra, Yogi

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I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don't think anybody can say they're the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit.

Mansell, Nigel

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One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.

Rapoport, Anatol

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These are the days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.

Orpen, Robert

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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.

Becker, Boris

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The general fact is that 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.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it.

Sheehan, Patty

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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis.

Crist, Reggie

45.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

Hoagland, Edward

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You get out in front -- you stay out in front.