Rivalry Quotes

• Great rivalries don't have to be built on hatred. They're built on respect, on a respect for excellence.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Hatred, Excellence, Built

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• One friend in a life-time 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

  Friendship, Real, Two

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Fighting, Trying

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• Insecurity is at the heart of every rivalry.

  Beth Moore

  Heart, Insecurity

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• Life is not a competition with others. In its truest sense it is a rivalry with ourselves. We should each day seek to break the record of our yesterday. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives; each day to master some weakness of yesterday; each day to repair past follies; each day to surpass...ourselves. And this is but progress.

  William George Jordan

  Life, Past, Yesterday

  William George Jordan (1913). “The Power of Truth”

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• Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Add, Charm, Conquest

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.5102, Delphi Classics

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• There are no frictions between us, there is only rivalry.

  Edward VII

  Friction

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• Records don’t mean anything in rivalry games.

  Dez Bryant

  Mean, Games, Records

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• Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Death, Traders, Trade

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

  Ovid

  Motivational, Running, Horse

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.343, Delphi Classics

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• Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

  Honore de Balzac

  Daughter, Children, Ambition

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• There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.

  Roger Staubach

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• What rivalry? I win all the matches.

  Martina Hingis

  Winning, Tennis, Funny Tennis

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• Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

  Henry Ford

  Business, Cutting, Competition

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• 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

  Team, Thinking, Long

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• The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

  John Adams

  Government, Essence, Political

  John Adams (2001). “The Political Writings of John Adams”, p.361, Regnery Publishing

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• Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins.

  Josh Billings

  Envy, Twins

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• When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.

  Arsene Wenger

  Stupid, Intelligent, People

  "Mourinho reveals Wenger dossier". news.bbc.co.uk. November 2, 2005.

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• Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Disposition, Produce

  Samuel Johnson (2010). “Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.38, Canongate Books

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• Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions.

  Serena Williams

  Champion, Legacy, Able

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• There is a very specific, unique brand of rivalry that exists between twins. You're always wondering who the Alpha twin is.

  Alex Hirsch

  Unique, Twins, Wonder

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Way, Energy, Social

  Charles Horton Cooley (1922). “Human Nature and the Social Order”

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• It is safer and wiser to cure unhealthy rivalry than to suppress it.

  Obafemi Awolowo

  Cures, Unhealthy, Wiser

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• 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

  Bridges, Hatred, Division

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• Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Injustice, Economic

  Harry S. Truman (2014). “1945: Year of Decision”, p.337, New Word City

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