Quotes About Competition With Friends

#1. I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends.

Jim Henson

#2. There's too much of everything - too many bands, too many albums, too much information all the time. You're seeing fewer album releases treated as big events, because of the influx. It's almost a "here this week, forgotten next week" thing.

Matt Smith

#3. For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the members of the federal legislature will be likely to attach themselves too much to local objects.

James Madison

#4. Instead of playing to win, I was playing not to lose. It reminds me of the story I once heard about two friends being chased by a bear, when one turned to the other and said, I just realized that I don't need to outrun the bear; I only need to outrun you.

Sean Covey

#5. Bill Maher and I are on against each other, and we're friends. He can do my show any time he wants, and I've done Politically Incorrect several times. There's no reason to think competition has to be adversarial.

Jay Leno

#6. A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition.

Lily Collins

#7. I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

Edna O'Brien

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

Jesse Owens

#9. When I worked as a programmer, that meant eight straight hours of programming without interruption. That was a good day. In contrast, if I was interrupted with questions, process, or - heaven forbid - meetings, I felt bad.

Eric Ries

#10. 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

#11. We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

Abraham Lincoln

#12. Everyone comes back. It makes no difference how far we wander, we always have our country, our land, in our souls and our minds.

Ruben Blades

#13. I think it's okay to feel jealous, but it's how you deal with it that's the important thing. You have to be happy for your friends when they do well because you want them to do well. It's not a competition.

Carrie Underwood

#14. Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attention.

Andrew Carnegie

#15. We can be competitive and aim to destroy our opponent or competition, but we can still respect our rivals and even be friends.

Ben Tolosa

#16. Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion-I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.

Diane Sawyer

#17. Apparitions are often confused with hauntings. The difference is that apparitions are "live" (intelligent consciousness) and hauntings are "recordings.

Loyd Auerbach

#18. I play football in training all the time with my male friends, who are also professionals. But playing together in competition? I just don't see it. We have the ability, we have the technique, we have the tactical understanding, but there are physical limitations. You can't get away from that.

Marta

#19. Baseball's postseason shifts from game to game because of starting pitchers and the geography of the ballparks.

George Vecsey

#20. A house in the country is not the same as a country house.

Gertrude Stein

#21. I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.

Florence Welch

#22. I can feel every Shifter's emotions except Daniel's - the only one whose heart I long to know.

Rachel Hawthorne

#23. All close friendships are marked with competition. Our earliest tests are against our siblings and playmates, and some of that rivalry endures amongst friends into adulthood. Like dogs play fighting, you learn not to bite hard.

Christopher Bollen

#24. Start each day off on the right foot.

Joe Vitale

#25. Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.

Nelson Mandela

#26. I don't want to be in competition with anyone. I'm friends with women I work with and I applaud any success they have in their careers. And I'm not just saying that because it sounds good, I genuinely want people to do well and have success.

Charissa Thompson