Competition Quotes

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
Barack Obama

Islam, Justice, Human

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
George S. Patton

Men, Best, Fear

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
Indira Gandhi

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.
Michael Jordan

Yourself, Live, High

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
Elbert Hubbard

Work, Heart, Whole

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Today, Off, Point

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
Indira Gandhi

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
Walt Disney

Life, Tough, Against

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.
Bill Cosby

School, Start, Show

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

Women, Great, Power

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

Business, Away, Edge

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew Carnegie

Best, Hard, May

Competition is a sin.
John D. Rockefeller

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Bertrand Russell

Life, Nothing, Rather

You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.
Marcus Garvey

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
Fidel Castro

War, Find, Hypocrisy

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
Karl Marx

Together, Labor, Among

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.
Marilyn Manson

Women, Jealousy, Struggle

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.
Chuck Palahniuk

Best, Try, Difficult

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
Colin Powell

Win, Effort, Above

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
Jack Welch

Two, Three, Number

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.
Howard Cosell

Best, Done, Give

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.
Phil McGraw

Home, Children, Parent

I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.
Hedy Lamarr

Women, Men, Find

You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.
Shaun White

Best, Happy, Game

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
Herbert Hoover

Progress, Protection, Consumer

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.
Frank Shorter

Time, Good, Done

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Fulton J. Sheen

Pride, Weakness, Fears

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

Life, Art, Long

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
Jesse Owens

Real, Friends, Become

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