Compete Quotes

#1. I think one of the big issues with, you know, people who have strong faith in addition to competing is that conflict between accepting things the way they are, and wanting to compete and get better, and at what point are you in the right balance.

Tom Lehman

#2. In this world of endless opportunities our dreams compete. If we wait to start a journey, the destination may not be anymore what we wanted to find.

Gisela Hausmann

#3. I could not be more determined and robust about this. I want more children to play cricket and to have the chance to compete. I want them playing on the correct pitches with hard balls and proper headgear.

Tessa Jowell

#4. As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world.

Nathan Meyer Rothschild

#5. You don't go into the game to compete. You go into each game to win.

Cam Newton

#6. We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.

Garry Marshall

#7. The excitement of creating is followed by desperate self-doubt. Courage and inspiration compete with discouragement and despair.

Diana Pavlac Glyer

#8. I don't want to compare myself to anyone else, but there's Paul Smith, who I think does a great job. I feel like once I sort everything to the best quality, I'll be able to compete with them.

Rob Kardashian

#9. The game has such a hold on golfers because they compete not only against an opponent, but also against the course, against par, and most surely- against themselves.

Arnold Palmer

#10. And that was always our plan. Do well in the first three states, and then compete and have a very strong night on Super Tuesday. I think we're ideally positioned to do exactly that.

Ted Cruz

#11. I love San Francisco; it's very hard to compete with San Francisco when it comes to availability of product, but one thing you can't replace about Las Vegas or Miami is people are walking in the door and they want to have a good time.

Michael Mina

#12. Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

Olympia Dukakis

#13. I wanted to compete at the highest level again - and that's the NBA.

Larry Bird

#14. I like to compete.

Ivan Lendl

#15. I love unsalted almonds, especially if I'm about to do a photo shoot or compete. There's no mess, and they're so easy to pack in a little Ziploc bag to take with you. It's my number one go-to snack!

Olivia Culpo

#16. Republicans are completely befuddled by Obama's 'star power' and don't seem to have a clear or effective strategy to compete.

Simon Sinek

#17. It's tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It's so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have to compete with so many other entertainments, so they have to bring a star in which puts people there out of work.

Delta Burke

#18. Sometimes when they all talk I feel like shouting, 'so your life went wrong - why assume mine will? Maybe it'll work for me!' But this would only invite a pitying smile, and a 'she'll learn' comment. You can't win with them. You can't even compete.

Kate Cann

#19. People create their own gods so that they could compete with other people's gods. It is not the humanity that fights but human gods. God war. Good war.

Aporva Kala

#20. It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.

Kit Bond

#21. I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

Gloria Steinem

#22. Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.

Billy Tauzin

#23. When I first heard Elvis perform "Bridge Over Trouble Water" it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?

Paul Simon

#24. to compete. And then there is the hype. Vendors, analysts and the media talk up new technologies and trends making them sound like the 'next big thing', something that every company must adopt if it wants to stay

Ian Cox

#25. Hollywood. It lacks originality. Remake sucks.' But I had to look deeper into it from my own perspective. We are not trying to compete with the original at all and that's what allowed me to pull the trigger without any hesitancy .

Colin Farrell

#26. On observing 1963 America for the first time, the author says that organization and standardization to a certain degree compete with divine providence.

Karl Barth

#27. I like to compete. I think competition brings out the best in anybody.

Charles Tillman

#28. One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.

Ed Harris

#29. Pie can't compete with cake. Put candles in a cake, it's a birthday cake. Put candles in a pie, and somebody's drunk in the kitchen.

Jim Gaffigan

#30. If you can compete, you are going to compete

Earl Lloyd

#31. It's always been jewelry, clothes, appearance. Those are things that compete with the car. But the car is the ultimate. Get that car right and it doesn't matter what you got on or what you wear once you step out of that car.

Ice Cube

#32. The policy of America to deny visas to technically trained people in the U.S. and shipped to other countries, where they create companies that compete with America, has to be the stupidest policy of all the U.S. government policies.

Eric Schmidt

#33. Is my ability what it was at, say, 25 or 30 years old? Probably not, but I like to compete. I like to go out and play the game hard.

Jim Thome

#34. Poland is quite a mediocre country in some regards. The only natural resource that we have, and with which we can compete, is freedom.

Donald Tusk

#35. Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies.

Norm Dicks

#36. Edge will be missed. It was an honor to share the ring with him, and compete against him.

Charlie Haas

#37. I want to initiate a bilateral agenda that helps Mexico and the U.S. together compete with the world better, especially with the economies of Asia and the Pacific.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#38. I don't think about other people. If I did, I'd wanna compete. But I don't think like that, because I'm above everybody.

Timbaland

#39. When you compete, you gain more than you lose, even when you lose.

Aaron Lauritsen

#40. As humans, we have evolved to compete ... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition.

Peter Diamandis

#41. I earned the right not to compete for a man.
He wants me... Or... She is welcome to him...

Virginia Alison

#42. Sleep is so cute when it tries to compete with the internet.

Will Ferrell

#43. Being right can never compete with doing well.

Henry Cloud

#44. She's buying sex toys now, you know. Sex toys for herself. Where the hell does that leave me? Have you ever seen a Vagazzler? That thing can give her an orgasm and then make her a Frappuccino. I can't compete with that. I don't know how to make a Frappuccino.

Tracy Brogan

#45. Strategy is simply resource allocation. When you strip away all the noise, that's what it comes down to. Strategy means making clear cut choices about how to compete. You cannot be everything to everybody, no matter what the size of your business or how deep its pockets.

Jack Welch

#46. I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

Benigno Aquino III

#47. The Word of God has a supernatural edge with which a million-dollar budget can never compete.

Joseph Stowell

#48. I thought that there might be something unsatisfying about directing two Tolkien movies after 'Lord of the Rings.' I'd be trying to compete with myself and deliberately doing things differently.

Peter Jackson

#49. Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Gian Carlo Menotti

#50. Neither Europe nor the United States can afford to allow Xi's grandiose vision to materialize. And so they must allow Russia to compete with China for influence in its own backyard.

Anonymous

#51. That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them.

Vaclav Klaus

#52. Individuals who are obsessed with competing with themselves alone don't have time to compete with others and, most importantly, to judge others...

Assegid Habtewold

#53. I don't think any of us can compete with Cowell. He is the best at what he does.

Gary Barlow

#54. People in the music business say don't make too many records because they'll compete against one another.

Chick Corea

#55. I loved gymnastics. I was eager to compete. I was hungry to go out there and be the best in the world, and I had that determination.

Dominique Moceanu

#56. America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.

Mark McKinnon

#57. As long as I can compete, I won't quit. Reaching three-thousand is not the finish line as long as I can contribute.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#58. What happens if fully rational politicians compete for the support of irrational voters - specifically, voters with irrational beliefs about the effects of various policies? It is a recipe for mendacity.

Bryan Caplan

#59. Divisions compete for resources and sabotage each other to steal glory. Bosses pit their subordinates against one another so that no one can mount a coup.

Charles Duhigg

#60. A healthy workforce is essential to grow our state and compete in the global marketplace. These actions are important to improve the health security of Iowans by making healthcare more affordable and accessible.

Tom Vilsack

#61. The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain.

Ai Weiwei

#62. I look at the deejay thing as a tier thing. If I'm not going to compete on that level, I'm just going to do it as a hobby.

Talib Kweli

#63. We have to compete within ourselves relative to the determination it takes to be successful.

Nick Saban

#64. When we think about even the PC market and what is required in the student as well as in the consumer market, we want to be able to compete in the opening price point.

Satya Nadella

#65. I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.

Bette Davis

#66. You want to grow. To compete effectively - - even if you weren't going to grow, just to maintain your position - - you look at who you're competing with. And everyone you're competing with is changing to get better, sometimes dramatically.

Tim Finchem

#67. I enjoy the competition and the process of learning as we compete. The whole thing is just fascinating. I don't know what I'll do when I retire. When I go sailing, I look around ... anyone want to race? I just love competing as opposed to just going out and watching the sunset.

Larry Ellison

#68. By raising the minimum wage in California, 700,000 people are going to lose their jobs. There are a lot of opportunities for companies to prosper in Florida and compete here, and that's what I'm going after.

Rick Scott

#69. Apple and Samsung are selling in such high volumes, and they're vertically integrated more and more, that it's very, very hard for anyone to compete against Apple and Samsung in the high-volume part of the smartphone or tablet market.

John Sculley

#70. Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

Audre Lorde

#71. You make choices, as a young man. I knew I wanted to be an actor, so I pursued that, but the desire to compete still stayed with me.

Holt McCallany

#72. She had Nick Lachey's body, a deep voice, very small boobies, and a crew cut. It would have come as no surprise if she had walked into the backyard to compete in a rock-hurling competition after dinner.

Chelsea Handler

#73. I;m not going to compete with you. I'm better than you are at what I do. And you're better than I am at what you do.

Stieg Larsson

#74. The last sort of really low-key race I ran, I realized with about a hundred metres to go, that my heart just wasn't in it. I wasn't trying my hardest, I didn't care to compete against the girls I was up against. That spoke a lot about where my heart was taking me-which was off the track.

Cathy Freeman

#75. This law ... defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war.

Daniel Quinn

#76. I don't want to give anyone an edge in my mind. Every time I walk out on the court, I have to feel I'm the best so I can compete well. A lot of times, my chief rival is just me.

Venus Williams

#77. If I cry, it means I'm too weak to compete in this sport. That's bull.

Shawna Robinson

#78. I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.

Nancy Gibbs

#79. The new mystique is that women can have it all. There's a whole new generation of women today, flogging themselves to compete for success according to the male model - in a work world structured for men with wives to handle the details of life.

Betty Friedan

#80. India is scared of the competition ... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete.

Lee Kuan Yew

#81. If someone wears something you like, you make comments on it. And if someone wears something we don't like, we make comments on it, too. That's just what guys do, what teammates do. Besides that, we don't really compete in that space.

Dwyane Wade

#82. The two things I understand best are stand-up comedy and martial arts. And those things require an ultimate grasp of the truth. You have to be objective about your skills and abilities to compete in both.

Joe Rogan

#83. You don't compete with dollars, but you compete with ideas. Your only real borders are what you can imagine.

Marc Ecko

#84. If you choose a market that already exists, say, networking equipment, you have to compete with an established company like Cisco. Even if your product is marginally better, Cisco can fudge it and outsell you.

Douglas Leone

#85. Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.

Alberto Juantorena

#86. introverts like people they meet in friendly contexts; extroverts prefer those they compete with.

Susan Cain

#87. I'm not trying to compete with any other revival soul acts. It's just Leon Bridges, a kid from Fort Worth trying to be himself and give people hope. It's great music to dance to and just love.

Leon Bridges

#88. They wanted me to lead these young players, teach them the way to compete, when the only thing I should be worried about is how I'm performing in the game.

Ian Kinsler

#89. We know that education is everything to our children's future. We know that they will no longer just compete for good jobs with children from Indiana, but children from India and China and all over the world.

Barack Obama

#90. It has been a wonderful experience to compete in the Olympic Games and to bring home a gold medal. But since I have been a young lad, I have had my eyes on a different prize. You see, each one of us is in a greater race than any I have run in Paris, and this race ends when God gives out the medals.

Eric Liddell

#91. It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia.

John Malkovich

#92. If Reed wasn't planning on meeting me at the beach, I'd be rolling around naked in this bed with you in a heartbeat. I love surfing, but - " his gaze wandered over the thin sheet covering her body before he met her eyes again " - no wave could ever compete with you.

Lisa Kessler

#93. If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

Mary Douglas

#94. To achieve a higher consciousness, fill your heart with love and forget to judge, compete, or compare.

Debasish Mridha

#95. I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.

Vijender Singh

#96. Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur. Doing things differently and solving problems with new, innovative and fresh approaches are the very reason many start-ups are able to compete and sometimes outpace the established market leaders.

Richard Branson

#97. I like to be just an athlete, but if I go to competition and compete, I love to be a star, maybe.

Kim Yuna

#98. I thought ... I'll never compete with that. No matter how much pain I'm in.

Suzanne Collins

#99. Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because of who he was - it was because of who I am. It's true, though, that I felt I shouldn't compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died.

Kiki Smith

#100. But then I lock back in and I start thinking about how fun it is to compete during the playoffs and the first round, the second round, and Eastern Conference Finals. If I'm lucky enough to get here again, it will be fun to do it.

LeBron James