Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

Best Quotes about Competition

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

Saroyan, William

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Morris, William

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Proverb, Indian

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

Cauthen, Steve

In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.

Ross, Ruth

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

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave -- win or lose.

Howe, Gordie

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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

Geus, Arie de

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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.

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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

Horne, William Van

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You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.

Sayers, Gayle

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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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You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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

Saying

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I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

Oerter, Al

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Holtz, Lou

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Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.

Beecher, Willard

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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.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.

Campbell, Earl

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When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.

Shakespeare, William

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

Becker, Boris

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It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.

Agassi, Andre

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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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This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

O'Neal, Shaquille

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When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

Landry, Tom

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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Ovid

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What it comes down to is that anybody can win with the best horse. What makes you good is if you can take the second or third-best horse and win.

Aragon, Vicky

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

Martin, Jerry

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Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.

Clough, Arthur Hugh

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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

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The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.

Westphal, Paul

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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

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For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes -- not that you won or lost -- but how you played the Game.

Rice, Grantland