Motivational Quotes

Competition

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

- Proverb, Indian

Best Quotes about Competition

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

Lopez, Nancy

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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

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

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

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

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

Shakespeare, William

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

Bradley, Bill

You must play boldly to win.

Palmer, Arnold

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

Orpen, Robert

11.

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

Foyt, A. J.

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Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Brock, Lou

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There are two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group because there is less competition there.

Gandhi, Indira

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Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Knight, Bobby

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

Jipcho, Ben

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

Oerter, Al

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Hume, David

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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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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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Competitions are for horse, not artist.

Bartok, Bela

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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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He can run but he can't hide.

Louis, Joe

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When the game is over it is really just beginning.

Kramer, Jerry

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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

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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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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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Playing safe is only playing.

Olson, Chuck

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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Most games are lost, not won.

Stengel, Casey

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

Gladiator's Salute

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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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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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I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.

Abbott, Jim

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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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I don't care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don't care how bad you play, you can find somebody you can beat.

Penick, Harvey

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Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, it's fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; it's a mutual hostility.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Saroyan, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Campbell, Earl

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Competition is the whetstone of talent.

Saying

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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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Win or lose, do it fairly.

Rockne, Knute

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Thank God for competition.When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us.

Atkinson, Gil

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

Proverb, Italian

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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Guthrie, Janet

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

Sayers, Gayle

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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