Competing Quotes
Competing Quotes
You get out in front — you stay out in front.
A. J. Foyt
When you compete, you gain more than you lose, even when you lose.
Aaron Lauritsen
The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.
Arie de Geus
We are competing against ourselves.
Ashton Eaton
Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.
Baltasar Gracian
Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
Bill Bradley
Life is not a competition with others. In its truest sense it is 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. This is, simply, progress.
C. Smith Sumner
Any master of his craft knows that it is not his oponent he is fighting. It is himself.
Chae Richardson
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
Charles Lamb
Competition is in the genes of all living things. Watch a flower compete for its share of sunlight or watch the goldfish in your aquarium. Infants and small children compete without knowing it. Remember how the queen bee wins? Competition is the spice of life and the soul of progress. How else can quality rise to the top?
Charles T. Clark
The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
Colin Powell
And what is the greatest number? Number one.
David Hume
If you have to compete, compete with yourself.
Debasish Mridha
Let us compete with ourselves, not with others.
Debasish Mridha
The one that works the hardest comes out on top.
Debbie Meyer
Competition motivates and drives people to excel, and enables people to learn and benefit from their strengths and weaknesses.
Dr T.P.Chia
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D Eisenhower
Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
E. O. Wilson
The only competition that matters the most in life, is the one between you and your old self.
Edmond Mbiaka
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
Elie Wiesel
Competing with an other is exhilarating, challenging, and healthy. That is what Games are for. When competition is brought into the social arena it undermines the competitor’s self-esteem and confidence. It is a very subtle process. One we must be sensitive to, especially when evaluating our own motivations and behavior.
Eric Parslow
If you can’t win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record.
Evan Esar
You’ve got to be confident when you’re competing. You’ve got to be a beast.
Gabby Douglas
Competition is a complex thing. It brings out the best and the worst in all participants. It refines the technique and sharpens the mind, body and spirit.
Herb Perez
Compete with yourself; you have no knowledge about the degree of gifting others might have. Don’t decide to slow down because you have gone too far and everyone is behind you!
Israelmore Ayivor
Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It’s about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.
Joe Torre
Competition is not about fighting, it is all about helping each other to achieve a common goal.
Joey Lawsin
We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!
John F. Kennedy
Compete with no man but thyself. Always seek opportunities to improve upon your best performance.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Competition gives birth to a lot of success, and if no one ever challenged you, you wouldn’t go anywhere. It makes sense to compete with others for a promotion at work. But so many women take it a step further and won’t even support other women. They end up competing over things that don’t make sense – like how we look.
Lilly Singh
You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
Lou Holtz
Competition is such a virtue, and everybody’s so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.
Major Owens
Don’t waste your time competing with someone. Instead focus on competing with yourself. Leaders don’t compete, followers do.
Mayur Ramgir
Competing is like gambling, the more you win the more you want to compete. The only problem is, what happens when the person you’re competing with is yourself?
Meedee
Never compete with your master, because that is disrespect to him! You are your only rival, you compete with yourself, go beyond yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you compete with someone as good or better than you, you may not always win, but you never lose.
Michael Josephson
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
Oliver Goldsmith
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.Â
Ovid
The time your game is most vulnerable is when you’re ahead. Never let up.
Rod Laver
Competing is different than violence. Sport is love. It’s passion. There’s no passion in hurting people.
Rohan Marley
Competing at the highest level is the greatest test of one’s character.
Russell Mark
We last longer if we compete against ourselves for the good of others instead of competing against others for the good of ourselves.
Simon Sinek
You never know how long the battles going to be, you always have to be ready.
Steaven Seagal
When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.
Steffi Graf
You have to be competitive to be relevant.
Sunday Adelaja
Remember, you don’t compete with anyone, you make them compete with you. You can control what you put on yourself; you can’t control what the other guy puts on you. So you focus only on the internal pressure that drives you. Run to it, embrace it, feel it, so no one else can throw more at you than you’ve already put on yourself.
Tim S Grover
When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
Tom Landry
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
Washington Allston
When you’re riding, only the race in which you’re riding is important.
Willie Shoemaker