88 Rivalry Quotes
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Famous Rivalry Quotes
Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader. — Elbert Hubbard
The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other. — Luciano Pavarotti
Work until your idols become your rivals — G-Dragon
It is safer and wiser to cure unhealthy rivalry than to suppress it. — Obafemi Awolowo
If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place. — Criss Jami
The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste. — Valentino Rossi
With competition everyone has to try harder. — Harold H. Greene
Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior. — Plutarch
The airline business is the biggest team sport in the world. When you're all consumed with fighting among yourselves, your opponents can run over you every day. — Gordon Bethune
Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition. — Edwin Starr
Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results. — Jerry Flint
Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower. — George Stigler
To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading. — Seneca
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. — George S. Patton
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. — Fulton J. Sheen
Short Rivalry Quotes
- I hate Showtime, I can't stand those guys. — Dana White
- I had this odd sibling rivalry with America. — Patti Davis
- A thief hates a fellow thief. — Filipino Proverbs
- China, not Russia, is the United States real enemy. — Vivek Ramaswamy
- Anytime a woman competes with another woman she demeans herself. — Sherry Argov
- I got into a competition with my brother over who could make better Vine videos. — Jake Paul
- One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. — Henry Adams
- What rivalry? I win all the matches. — Martina Hingis
- Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests. — Louisa May Alcott
- Insecurity is at the heart of every rivalry. — Beth Moore
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Friendly Rivalry Quotes
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. — Henry Adams
So I don't really have much rivalry, or if there is any, I don't really know anything about it. Because, you know, I'm not around girls like that. The friends I have in the business, I'm always really happy for them. I think we're always happy for each other. That sounds crap, but it's true. — Emily Blunt
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. — Brooks Adams
Love is a usually force able of transforming an rivalry into friend. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sister Rivalry Quotes
We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws. — Rose Macaulay
I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don't knock another sister, ever. There's room for everybody on this planet; you don't have to be like anyone else. — Cyndi Lauper
Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others. — Elizabeth Fishel
For me being the youngest, there was never ever anything that was an issue to cause rivalry between me and my sisters. — Nicole Appleton
We have to divide mother love with our brothers and sisters. Our parents can help us cope with the loss of our dream of absolute love. But they cannot make us believe that we haven't lost it. — Judith Viorst
My sister and I never engaged in sibling rivalry. Our parents weren't that crazy about either one of us. — Erma Bombeck
Sibling Rivalry Quotes
I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years. — David Hyde Pierce
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them. — Peter De Vries
Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from others what they have). As children, we wanted to monopolize the attention of a parent, to draw it away from other siblings. This sense of rivalry... makes people compete for the attention. — Robert Greene
It seems to me that we have to draw the line in sibling rivalry whenever rivalry goes out of bounds into destructive behavior of aphysical or verbal kind. The principle needs to be this: Whatever the reasons for your feelings you will have to find civilized solutions. — Selma Fraiberg
My mom says I'm her sugarplum. My mom says I'm her lamb. My mom says I'm completely perfect Just the way I am. My mom says I'm a super-special wonderful terrific little guy. My mom just had another baby. Why? — Judith Viorst
Jill : What causes sibling rivalry? Tim : Having more than one kid! — Tim Allen
every one of us possesses a gene predisposing us toward rivalry, competition, and fits of envy with any past, present, or future siblings. — Linda Sunshine
Eventually we will learn that the loss of indivisible love is another of our necessary losses, that loving extends beyond the mother-child pair, that most of the love we receive in this world is love we will have to share--and that sharing begins at home, with our sibling rivals. — Judith Viorst
People Writing About Rivalry
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Elbert Hubbard |
460 | 4958 |
 Luciano Pavarotti |
47 | 482 |
 G-Dragon |
32 | 2366 |
 Criss Jami |
446 | 763 |
 Valentino Rossi |
60 | 1821 |
 Harold H. Greene |
28 | 344 |
More Rivalry Quotes
There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality. — Indira Gandhi
A society which discards those who are weak and non-productive risks exaggerating the development of reason, organisation, aggression and the desire to dominate. It becomes a society without a heart, without kindness - a rational and sad society, lacking celebration, divided within itself and given to competition, rivalry and, finally, violence. — Jean Vanier
In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds. — Henri Nouwen
When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent. — Arsene Wenger
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. — Harry S. Truman
Labor costs are rising in China and it is being rivaled by Thailand and Indonesia, for price if not volume. — Tim Marshall
I had orders from the great Bill Russell. Me and him were talking in Seattle the other day, and he was telling me how rivalries should be. I asked him if he ever disliked anybody he played against, and he told me, 'No, never,' and he told me that I should shake Kobe Bryant's hand and let bygones be bygones and bury the hatchet. — Shaquille O'Neal
President Eisenhower was fed up with the interservice rivalries. Having commanded the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War II, he held deep convictions regarding the value of unity among the military services. As president, he had been a crusader against the excessive waste of resources that came from service duplication. — Annie Jacobsen
Every virile people has established colonial power. All great nations in the fullness of their strength have desired to set their mark upon barbarian lands and those who fail to participate in this great rivalry will play a pitiable role in time to come. — Heinrich von Treitschke
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace. — Woodrow Wilson
And the issue is never the merits of the evidence but always the jealous rivalry of the contestants to see which would be the official light unto the world. Right down to the present day we have been the spectators of a foolish contest between equally vain and bigoted rivals. — Hugh Nibley
When I looked at the state of women's MMA, what I saw was that it was missing rivalries or anything theatrical about it. Everybody was trying to be Miss America, unwilling to go under any kind of criticism, and taking the safe answers. I thought I needed to do whatever I could to get attention. — Ronda Rousey
Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy. — Honore de Balzac
The one thing that I really appreciate about being a runner is the incredible friendships and camaraderie that we, as runners, share. Although it will always be a cutthroat competition for every spot on every team, our companionship transcends these competitive rivalries. — Jennifer Rhines
A truly beautiful woman is always good and the other women, and to people in general. She rejects rivalry, intrigue and dirty tricks. — Sharon Stone
Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody. — Kahlil Gibran
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. — Joseph Addison
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
There is a very specific, unique brand of rivalry that exists between twins. You're always wondering who the Alpha twin is. — Alex Hirsch
I think when you saw this year's playoffs, Miami and Detroit have a pretty fierce rivalry now. Also, the Suns and San Antonio look like they're starting to develop something there. I look forward to seeing those rivalries continue and develop. — John Starks
Records don’t mean anything in rivalry games. — Dez Bryant
American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy, jealousy, all that is malignant in human character is nourished by the system. Possession, money, property--on such corrupt standards as these do you people measure happiness and success. — Philip Roth
Do not be afraid to help one another. The devil is looking for rivalry, division, gangs. Keep working to make progress ... I have seen how pain does not stifle the hope deep within the human heart and how life goes on, finding new strength even in the midst of difficulties. — Pope Francis
The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on. — Eric Cantona
There are no frictions between us, there is only rivalry. — Edward VII
Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past. — Peter Thiel
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