Top 100 Life Competition Quotes
#1. In economic life competition is never completely lacking, but hardly ever is it perfect.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
#2. It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.
Lyman Abbott
#3. I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.
Maria Sharapova
#4. There's enough pressure in life without seeking competition. That makes it double pressure.
Frank Bruno
#5. Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?
Paul J. Zak
#6. Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Bertrand Russell
#7. Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.
Toba Beta
#8. When you compete, you gain more than you lose, even when you lose.
Aaron Lauritsen
#9. political life came to be dominated by a pattern of interest-group politics that the era's political scientists came to call "pluralist," a form of democracy marked more by competition among organizations and lobbyists than by a sense of the public interest.
Ira Katznelson
#10. Take life step by step, pace by pace, slowly slowly, and leave the competition to others.
Eddie Redmayne
#11. I think everyone needs competition in life, whether it be myself, you, the President.
Charles Tillman
#12. Stand up! Don't ever give up on this bitchy life.
Feel afraid is okay, but don't avoid competition.
You've done that thing even since you're a sperm.
You accept this and you are the surviving winner.
Toba Beta
#13. My entire life, I've never been able to understand the concept of not being happy or excited when others were successful or had something good happen to them. It quite honestly is a concept that I cannot grasp.
Dan Pearce
#14. Collaboration is far more powerful than competition. Do not think that only if you are pushed to the wall, you will do your best.
Jaggi Vasudev
#17. 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
#18. On ambition, goal setting and competition - it doesn't matter if you lose, but you can't win if you don't play the game.
Aaron Lauritsen
#20. Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers
Charles Handy
#21. Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, [and] portrays life as a meaningless competition among organisms that exist only to survive and reproduce.
Philip Johnson
#22. The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#23. Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good, it reflects a distorted vision of life. The root of the martial arts is not there.
Taisen Deshimaru
#24. Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.
Haruki Murakami
#25. Skateboarding has nothing to do with competition or sport. It has to do with trying to stay as immature as you can for the rest of your life. It's kind of a lame thing to say, but it really is.
Lance Mountain
#26. Life is competitive; clothes gird us for the competition.
Edith Head
#27. Alice wondered if her mother was aware that she wasn't the only one in town who'd come down with a bad case of Blueberry Fever.
Sarah Weeks
#29. I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life ... and that's gotten stronger as I've gotten older. I've always felt if I don't just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to - work harder than anybody else.
Ryan Reynolds
#30. When men do not know their assignment on earth they kill themselves psychologically and emotionally, wallowing in different careers and meddling in dreams of others. They become restless and engage in unhealthy competition - living unfulfilled lives
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#31. Life is not a competition.
There is enough work for everybody.
Find your passion and fulfill it.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#32. The road to the heart is not a long, linear path, but this turning. There is no race or competition, just me and God going deeper, carving a canyon to the soul.
Anna White
#33. This is my religion - we're all animals, perfect animals created in the infinite image and imagination of nature. It's a life not without pain and competition and suffering, but it can be a life of dignity and mutual respect.
David Duchovny
#34. I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.
Sanford I. Weill
#35. For most Olympic athletes, their training is their hardest challenge and where they push themselves to the limit. For Paralympians, training and competition is an escape from the hardships and struggles of their everyday life. That is the difference.
Giles Duley
#36. I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
Walt Disney
#37. Life is full of drama, competition, difficulties, and God knows what else. But that shouldn't rule out the love, happiness and joy we feel by being around the things we love and the people who love us.
Zainab T. Khan
#39. According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.
Hannah Arendt
#41. Now the struggle for life is so sharp, competition is so severe, that few men can succeed who carry a useless burden. The businessmen of our country are compelled to lead temperate lives, otherwise their credit is gone.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#42. In real life, it is very important to be able to see a tiny difference between need for speed or just want to overtake.
Toba Beta
#43. I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.
Katarina Witt
#44. In business, politics and in life in general competition means the survival of the fittest
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#45. Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.
Benjamin Franklin
#46. He was working that charm right now on the trainer who kneeled before him and touched his thigh as though it were the thigh of David, Michelangelo's glorious statue come to life right here on court.
A.G. Starling
#47. I want a life of good sport, good people and the competition that goes with it.
Randy Lerner
#48. Those who participate in [sabbath] break the anxiety cycle. They are invited to awareness that life does not consist in frantic production and consumption that reduces everyone else to threat and competition.
Walter Brueggemann
#49. There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.
Bruce Lipton
#50. When you move into a spiritual approach to life you begin to see yourself as connected to everyone and everything, and competition is replaced by something called cooperation.
Wayne Dyer
#51. Life on earth is hard. Competition for the necessities of life is fierce. How ridiculous to believe that the law of harsh survival would not be true elsewhere, or that it would be negated by the progress of technology in an advanced civilization ...
Greg Bear
#52. The fact of the matter is that I've enjoyed the competition in life and the business of life; I've enjoyed all that goes with it.
William Schreyer
#53. There is competition in Zen. Let's not be ridiculous. There is competition in everything in life; being a winner in Zen means, competing and winning in the world of enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz
#54. I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition.
Shannon L. Alder
#55. Life is not a competition, it's a game. There are no winners or losers. We all end up dead. Thirdly,
Matthew Kimberley
#56. My strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.
Jason Mraz
#57. And when the end comes, we shall see the end. We shall see and understand how we started better. We shall see those who started well and those who ended well. When the end comes, we shall surely see the end!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#58. While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students.
Douglass North
#61. Your desires are immense, almost infinite. Because of your desires life becomes a competition, and wherever there is competition, there is anxiety and angst; and at the end everybody is aware deep down there is death.
Rajneesh
#62. Competition will always place your life in the hands of others, while initiative gives you the freedom to choose your own destiny ...
Og Mandino
#63. Life had become some kind of profound competition, where my emotional loss was substituted by my professional success. I became a part of what they call the rat race.
Saurbh Katyal
#64. I live for competition. It makes my life complete.
Hope Solo
#65. Loving behavior contributes to the group at the expense of the individual. Competition contributes to the survival of the individual at the expense of the group. In the garden of life, some people are more like flowers, and other people are more like weeds.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#66. If you learn to develop an abundant mentality you will not be envious of others, you will celebrate their successes, you share in their joys and pains; don't see life as a competition but a complimentary.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#67. The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy.
Ludwig Boltzmann
#68. I guess these days this is a politically charged statement, but it seems to me manifestly true: You make nothing alone. Human beings are not mere competitors, and human life is not merely competition. We are collaborators. To be human is to catch the falling person.
John Green
#70. You know you are truly alive, when you care for every living thing. One day soon, it will be the norm to view others not as competition, but gifts to share this gorgeous planet with, and we will not be able to imagine the loss of but one.
Tom Althouse
#71. There is worldly life where there is competition and where there is no competition, there is 'Gnan', (true) Knowledge.
Dada Bhagwan
#72. Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.
William Hazlitt
#73. The dreams we had of finding meaning and fulfillment through our jobs have faded into the reality of professional politics, burnout, boredom and intense competition.
Vicki Robin
#74. Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#75. 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
#76. Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.
Michael Shurtleff
#78. Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniencys and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to be rejected not with Reluctance but with Pleasure.
George Mason
#79. If there be no eternal life, still the enjoyment of spiritual thoughts as ideals is keener and makes a man happier, whilst the foolery of materialism leads to competition and undue ambition and ultimate death, individual and national.
Swami Vivekananda
#80. There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.
Randeep Hooda
#82. Our competition in life is solely with our old self.
Boyd K. Packer
#83. Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.
Hugh Nibley
#84. COMPETITOR is one who can steal a few deals, but, the pinch of which, A VISIONARY Never feels ... !
Sujit Lalwani
#85. We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.
Thomas Carlyle
#86. I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.
Judith Jamison
#87. When you move your focus from competition to contribution life becomes a celebration. Never try to defeat people, just win their hearts.
Gautama Buddha
#88. The best way to proceed with a shared endeavor is to think of yourself as your only competition
Anamika Mishra
#89. Life IS a competition. ALWAYS. No matter whether any of us want it to be or not!
Sahara Sanders
#90. Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.
John Ruskin
#91. If you just can't get rid of envy, then start creating a life, so that if you saw yourself from afar, you'd be envious of you.
Charles F. Glassman
#92. If I looked at every other girl in the entertainment industry as competition, my life would be really lonely. I wouldn't have some of the coolest friends that I'm so glad I've gotten to know.
Taylor Swift
#93. How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.
Parker J. Palmer
#94. Most of social media is simply a popularity contest. Well, I'm not here for the competition; I have important business and words of depth to change the course. So, while you follow the path of the ignorant, the rest of us will celebrate truth and the higher path.
Dara Reidyr
#95. Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?
Norah Vincent
#96. You have to compete in life because if you don't have no competition - no competition, no spirit, you know, you'll fall under the slightest struggle ...
Mike Tyson
#97. The trouble arises from the generally received philosophy of life, according to which life is a contest, a competition, in which respect is to be a ccorded to the victor. This view leads to an undue cultivation of the will at the expense of the senses and the intellect.
Bertrand Russell
#99. Art is the essence of life in creative form. If you want to compete, run a damn race. If you truly want to create essence, you need to leave competition out of it. 2014
Jenna Cornell
#100. You can't go wrong with major life and death stories when it comes to a competition, so I thought I'd have a go at writing one.
Michael Winter
