Top 100 Quotes About Rivals
#1. Many today view love and doctrine as enemies, or at best as rivals.
Bobby Jamieson
#2. The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.
Ian Bremmer
#3. We all know how ruthlessly these American millionaires crush their rivals as they climb to power.
Elizabeth Peters
#4. Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her.
Bernhard Von Bulow
#5. Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.
Alcee Hastings
#6. Theosophy tries to bridge the gulf between Buddhism and Christianity by pointing to the fundamental spiritual truths on which both religions are built, and by winning people to regard the Buddha and the Christ as fellow-laborers, and not as rivals.
Annie Besant
#7. (N)ever apportion blame. How can there be opponents or rivals or even "others" when there is no "self" in the first place?
Elif Shafak
#8. Robert Trivers argues, for instance, that people who can believe their own lies turn out to be the best liars of all - and an ability to deceive rivals has obvious advantages in the state of nature.
Sam Harris
#9. Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
Pablo Casals
#10. [E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
Edward O. Wilson
#11. The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.
Charles Caleb Colton
#12. Ambition is like love, impatient of both delays and rivals
Gautama Buddha
#13. Revenge writing is a female genre. Men who have been left by women or made cuckolds by rivals either lick their wounds in humiliated silence or start the Trojan Wars. Having no other power or public voice, the betrayed woman reaches for her pen.
Frances Wilson
#14. No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each purple gorge is reflected with a vividness that rivals the original.
Herbert Hoover
#15. It is only with government help - in the form of subsidies, restrictions on potential rivals, and the like - that business can "exploit" the public in any meaningful sense. That
Thomas E. Woods Jr.
#16. I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy.
Chris Cleave
#17. Gates and Allen's use of Harvard's lab space would return to haunt them over the years, as their rivals suggested time and again that Microsoft played a rigged business game,
Linsey McGoey
#18. Perhaps the gods will surprise us and it will be neither."
"A true tragedy."
"Of epic proportions."
"Two longstanding rivals."
"And only one robe to bear."
"Who will win?" Darren's tone was wry. "The handsome prince?"
I grinned. "Or his valiant betrothed?
Rachel E. Carter
#19. In a way it's the emotional feeling that you get in a good rock song or folk song, there's just nothing that rivals that.
Bryce Dessner
#20. This would most effectively open them to the answers they needed, seeing us as allies in their search and not as rivals.
David Leigh
#21. So many terrible things are done for love," Mab's voice said. "For love will men mutilate themselves and murder rivals. For love will even a peaceful man go to war. For love, man will destroy himself, and that right willingly.
Jim Butcher
#22. So much for the crusade against drugs ... all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest dealer in addictive and lethal substances on the planet, waging war on all rivals, whether they take the form of the Thai domestic tobacco industry or the Colombian cocaine cartels.
Alexander Cockburn
#23. The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual one that happened in the 1400s.
Daryl Hall
#24. Where envy is unavoidable it must be used as a stimulus to one's own efforts, not to the thwarting of the efforts of rivals.
Bertrand Russell
#25. To be teammates in Formula One actually means you are first rivals, not really mates.
Asif Kapadia
#26. Far from being parasitic exploiters of the workers, most businessmen were innovators looking to outwit their rivals, by doing things better or cheaper, and in doing so they inevitably brought improvements to the living standards of consumers. Most
Matt Ridley
#27. Golden rule of life: never underestimate your rivals.
Sid Waddell
#28. There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.
A.J. Ayer
#29. We will always meet rivals in everything we do, but the most dangerous are those we believe to be our friends.
Paulo Coelho
#30. He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#31. attacker. The tusks on a hippo too are formidable weapons that are used to good effect against rivals, or as a threat display (their characteristic open-mouthed yawn). All tusks are in fact elongated
Patrick Brakspear
#32. In order to conquer the world of economics with his new theory, it was critical for Keynes to destroy his rivals within Cambridge itself. In his mind, he who controlled Cambridge controlled the world.
Murray Rothbard
#33. We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us as rivals and trespassers. But we always look for allies when we hate.
Eric Hoffer
#34. If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.
Criss Jami
#35. Men may be rivals, opponents in their fortunes, and yet be friends in their hearts and fair towards each other's worth; but woman, the instant she is rivaled, becomes unjust.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
#36. The Evejah tells us: When a man's purse is empty, his rivals grow bolder.
Peter V. Brett
#37. It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#38. Don't cease till your rivals turn to allies, failures to lessons; your liabilities to assets, pains to joy. You're able to finish the race!
Assegid Habtewold
#39. I will always remember and we must all remember that Democrats are our political rivals, not our enemies, and they deserve our respect.
Ken Mehlman
#40. The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#41. A civilization that forsakes its women in any regard or manner does so at its peril. It is only half a civilization, half empty, and it will fall to the cultures and economies of FULL rivals.
William L.J. Galaini
#42. Rivals accused Whitney of being overrated; bloggers accused her of being lucky. What she was, mainly, was right.
Michael Lewis
#43. Throughout history, adultery has had few rivals as a cause of murder and human misery. The reason we tend to resemble our mates is that many of us are looking for someone who reminds us of our parent or sibling of the opposite sex, who in turn resembles us.
Jared Diamond
#44. We don't have a single big advantage," he once told an old adversary, publisher Tim O'Reilly, back when they were arguing over Amazon protecting its patented 1-Click ordering method from rivals like Barnes & Noble. "So we have to weave a rope of many small advantages.
Brad Stone
#45. One other thing, Lestrade," he added, turning round at the door: "'Rache,' is the German for 'revenge;' so don't lose your time looking for Miss Rachel." With which Parthian shot he walked away, leaving the two rivals open-mouthed behind him.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#46. Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#47. He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#48. I'm looking to get in the best shape possible for London and not worrying about rivals.
Dayron Robles
#49. He was so pleasant that his fellow writers, his rivals and contemporaries, forgave him even the fact that he was a gentleman.
W. Somerset Maugham
#50. Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals is instructive in painting a realistic portrayal of Lincoln and his methods for accomplishing his objectives. In fact, many good political biographies are useful in learning about power, strategy, and decision-making.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#51. Our instinctive apparatus consists of two parts- the one tending to further our own life and that of our descendants, the other tending to thwart the lives of supposed rivals.
Bertrand Russell
#52. A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.
Vladimir Nabokov
#53. Winners aren't perfect. They made fewer mistakes than their rivals.
Morton Blackwell
#54. In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler believed that his great-power rivals would be easy to exploit and isolate because each had little interest in fighting Germany and instead was determined to get someone else to assume the burden. He guessed right.
John Mearsheimer
#55. The Lord Jesus Christ is in a class all by Himself; there are no competitors, no rivals; He is unique. He is Lord of all. He is King of kings, Lord of lords, the image of the invisible God. He is Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the Preeminent One.
David Jeremiah
#56. We have set out to promote the work of community and faith-based charities. Government cannot be replaced by charities, but it can welcome them as partners instead of resenting them as rivals.
George W. Bush
#57. Scotland and England may sometimes be rivals, but by geography, we are also neighbours. By history, allies. By economics, partners. And by fate and fortune, comrades, friends and family.
Douglas Alexander
#58. The economy is now consuming the planet's available resources on a scale that rivals their supply while releasing its waste products back into the environment on a scale that greatly affects the major biogeophysical cycles of the planet.
James Gustave Speth
#60. Surviving the first round is never my aim. Ideally, I'd be in one group with Brazil, Argentina and Germany. Then I'd have lost two rivals after the first round. That's how I think. Idealisitic.
Johan Cruijff
#61. Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals.
Charles Caleb Colton
#62. An artist, however modest, is always willing to hear himself preferred to his rivals, and tries only to see that justice is done them.
Marcel Proust
#63. So few people who do porn for so many years make it when matriculating back into the real world. The recidivism rate for porn performers rivals that among career criminals for the same basic reason. It's all they know.
Tyler Knight
#65. When currying favor with Washington is seen as a much easier way to make money, businesses inevitably begin to compete with rivals in securing government largess, rather than in winning customers.
Charles Koch
#66. If Christ be your one and only love, if your heart has cast out all rivals, you will not long lack the comfort of His presence.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#67. And the issue is never the merits of the evidence but always the jealous rivalry of the contestants to see which would be the official light unto the world. Right down to the present day we have been the spectators of a foolish contest between equally vain and bigoted rivals.
Hugh Nibley
#68. Women do not disapprove their rivals; they hate them.
James Parton
#69. Bezos believed that high margins justified rivals' investments in research and development and attracted more competition, while low margins attracted customers and were more defensible.
Brad Stone
#70. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln BY DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN
Daniel H. Pink
#72. There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.
Mark Caine
#73. Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praisefrom your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before.
Samuel Beckett
#74. Don't divide the world into 'them' and 'us.' Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours.
Donald Rumsfeld
#75. The first law of business: Make the rules or your rivals will
G.Richard Shell
#76. The energy of college football rivals that of a live performance for me. I am an extremely analytical guy and predicting these games is right up my alley, especially with a little luck thrown in. It is even more fun when I am winning and I have to say, I have fared quite well in my predictions.
Rodney Atkins
#77. Hate not your enemies; love thy rivals, for this is the only way to convert them into your friends and your partners!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#78. Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Gautama Buddha
#79. We are only human when we are part of a community ... I tried to isolate you, but it could not be done. I surrounded you with hostility; you took most of your enemies and rivals and made friends of them ... You were a part of them; they carried you inside them all their lives.
Orson Scott Card
#80. It is said that the best horses lose when they compete with slower ones and win against better rivals. Undercompensation from the absence of a stressor,inverse hormesis, absence of challenge, degrades the best of the best.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#81. Inside a firm, people become obsessed with their competitors for career advancement. Then the firms themselves become obsessed with their competitors in the marketplace. Amid all the human drama, people lose sight of what matters and focus on their rivals instead.
Peter Thiel
#82. In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.
Hesiod
#83. Congratulations to one of my favorite opponents and greatest rivals on returning to the WWE. The Rock is the BEST promo man of all time ...
Chris Jericho
#84. In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
Charles Darwin
#85. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#86. That's the thing about exes - for eternity you feel like rivals in a kind of happiness contest, and losing would be the epitome of tragedy.
Daria Snadowsky
#87. My title rivals are behind me but at the moment I am not thinking about that. My target is to finish on the podium and then well see where everybody else is.
Valentino Garavani
#88. I just like that dynamic in relationships in movies where they're kind of lovers as rivals, you know?
Marc Webb
#89. People tease me about knowing somehow that Obama would put Clinton into the cabinet, and everybody would talk about a team of rivals.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#90. People really want to set up these rivalries because there's a lot of vampire books out there. People want to believe we're all fierce rivals, and really there's just so much camaraderie with authors. Everyone kind of boosts each other.
Richelle Mead
#91. If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.
Michael Porter
#92. William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland.
Kenneth Tynan
#93. Eventually we will learn that the loss of indivisible love is another of our necessary losses, that loving extends beyond the mother-child pair, that most of the love we receive in this world is love we will have to share
and that sharing begins at home, with our sibling rivals.
Judith Viorst
#94. Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
Carl Honore
#95. The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.
Valentino Rossi
#96. We have a God-given commission, but it is not a commission to be self-righteous know-it-alls- quite the contrary. Our work in God's world begins with the acknowledgment that we are not God, and that our most bitter rivals are made in God's image.
John C. Danforth
#97. Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one.
Dennis Bergkamp
#98. Compete, but not out of envy.
Contest, but not out of hostility.
Treat your rivals with respect;
treat your allies with honor.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#99. Work until your idols become your rivals
G-Dragon
#100. Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
Salman Rushdie
