Quotes with competition

Quotes 41 till 60 of 70.

  • Bethany Hamilton One arm might handicap me a little in competition, but I just work with what changes I know I have to make, and I'm pretty used to it now. It mainly depends on the wave conditions... I only get half the waves everyone else rides, so mine have to be good!
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle 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.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Arthur Levitt Our role is to maintain and monitor a framework in which fair competition can flourish.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Bryce Harper People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Fulton J. Sheen Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
    Fulton J. Sheen
    American bishop (1895 - 1979)
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  • Beah Richards Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!
    Beah Richards
    American actress (1920 - 2000)
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  • William Morris 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.
    William Morris
    British artist, writer (1834 - 1896)
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  • Bill Dedman Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Robert Collier Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • John Ruskin Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Johnson That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.
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    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Anthony Holden The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • William Van Horne The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.
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  • Colin Powell The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
    Colin Powell
    American elder statesman and four-star general (1937 - 2021)
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  • Bill Flores The lack of portability and competition has long been a problem in America's insurance market, yet Obamacare took no significant steps to open up the market between state lines.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Mrs. Jamieson The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
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  • Al Unser The only thing that's changed is the competitiveness of the series. It's only become harder to win in our series as the years have gone by. Competition breeds good things, and that's what's happened here.
    Al Unser
    American automobile racing driver (1939 - )
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  • Thomas Hobbes The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • C. Wright Mills The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Bob Greene The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy.
    Bob Greene
    American journalist and author (1947 - )
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