Rivals But Friends Quotes

#1. Keep your friends close - and your rivals even closer.

Nelson Mandela

#2. There must always be those with the fire of rebellion in their blood! There must always be those who will dare to fight an unbeatable enemy! Only thus can the race of man remain strong and fearless!

Stan Lee

#3. One in three all friends are:
Brothers in distress,
equals facing rivals,
free men - facing death!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. There is the little matter of disposal of droppings in which the cat is far ahead of its rivals. The dog is somehow thrilled by what he or any of his friends have produced, hates to leave it, adores smelling it, and sometimes eats it.

Paul Gallico

#5. We Nigerians must reclaim our sovereignty, our civic entitlements.

Wole Soyinka

#6. A fully functioning employee with a healthy self-image is money in the bank.

Marilyn Ferguson

#7. It is within the police power of the state to prohibit public use of fighting words that create a danger of breach of the peace, but simply to prohibit public use of fighting words is too broad. Those words may sometimes be used in situations where there is no danger.

Ithiel De Sola Pool

#8. ;I always enjoy the retelling,;

Karen Tayleur

#9. We may be of the same family, but that is the very reason why we are not friends, for we are rivals for the throne. What quarrels are worse than family quarrels?

Philippa Gregory

#10. If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.

Nelson DeMille

#11. 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

#12. People now have been conditioned to believe they should only buy one song at a time, that nobody can make an entire record that would merit you paying, you know, $7, $8, $10 when CDs in the '90s were $18, $19 and people bought millions and millions and millions of them.

Brian McKnight

#13. 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

#14. Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.

Sia Furler

#15. 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

#16. One of the big challenges for our party is to demonstrate to people that we have an agenda for economic prosperity and that we can be trusted with their money.

Birch Bayh

#17. 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

#18. Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty.

Lise Meitner

#19. 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

#20. He who understands baboons would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.

Charles Darwin

#21. We will always meet rivals in everything we do, but the most dangerous are those we believe to be our friends.

Paulo Coelho

#22. Congratulations, you've just been promoted!

Christopher Paolini