Competitive Quotes

“If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“Every flower blooms at its own pace.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shrinks. The same way you hold a candle close to you, keep all your plans, aspirations, projects, and dreams close to you too. Do not share your plans or goals until you complete them, because as you hold your candle away from you — envy, jealousy, and resentment may put out your flame before it grows.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“It is very normal for one ugly weed to not want to stand alone.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Female competition is when you are with a guy you like and you look around, see that you're the prettiest girl in the vicinity and feel a huge sense of relief that there's no one to take the attention away from you. (Female competition is a result of women feeling like their greatest sense of self worth , identity and influence comes from their sexual appeal to men. Many women don't even realise they are feeling this way and it's a subconscious thing, but they notice themselves getting jealous when they see other women who they think men would find sexually appealing.)”
― Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

“Perhaps if I had said to myself, at any moment in the race, I am being competitive. I want to win and I care, I might’ve begun to find the whole competition boring. My competitiveness was like a kite I was refusing to pull down from the sky and examine. I think this increased its power over me. I rode with a mysterious compulsion, not knowing where it came from.”
― Lara Prior-Palmer, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

“If You Want To Reach An Agreement, Move From a Competitive Mindset to A Cooperative One”
― Ludovic Tendron, The Master Key: Unlock Your Influence and Succeed in Negotiation

“You have to be competitive to be relevant”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Lesson learned - in doing business, do not COMPETE but be COMPETITIVE.”
― Diana Valerio

“As a woman, dating a man who is in competition with you is one of the worst mistakes that you can make. Your life force will be depleted and this will show in all areas of your life. Be careful.”
― Robin S. Baker

“Read voraciously. Read and get jealous. Get competitive. Read like a student. Read critically and generously." —Judy Clain, vice president and editor in chief of @littlebrown”
― Judy Clain

“Now and then, always be cutthroat or you'll be brushed aside.”
― SoulWanderer_

“That guy's got a degree in 'Fuck Fox0r”
― Aaron Kyle Andresen

“There are four components of Winning that determine how you’ll manage your fears and doubts and make that leap, or if you’ll make it at all. Talent. Intelligence. Competitiveness. Resilience.”
― Tim S. Grover, Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness

“I usually hear people say be in competition with others but yourself. I say, stay competitive as your competitors will bring competition to you regardless.”
― Oscar Bimpong

“We are living in a competitive world and have to perform better than others to achieve success. We also believe that it is success that brings happiness. We assume that if we can take care of success then success, itself, will take care of happiness. Therefore, people keep chasing success all through their lives as they consider happiness to be its by-product.”
― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness

“Ať se vám to líbí nebo ne, život je jako sport, život je jako hra. Kdokoli se od takové pravdy odvrací, kdokoli prostě odmítne hrát, zůstane stát za postranní čarou, a to jsem nechtěl. Víc než cokoli jeného jsem přesně tohle nechtěl.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“People talk about a 'winners mentality' because a winner has something that others lack, a special brain that takes for granted that it was born to be heroic. When a game comes down to the last decisive seconds, the winner bangs his stick down on the ice and yells to his teammates to pass to him, because a winner doesn't ask for the puck, he demands it. When thousands of spectators stand up and roar, most people become uncertain and back away, but the winner steps up.”
― Fredrick Backman

“The thought of "cheating" to win will never even cross a true competitive player's mind. For the true win, the competitive player will accept defeat. The cheater already accepted defeat for the false win.”
― ijie

“Horses have competition, humans have revolution.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Giants in Jeans Sonnet 36

Time and tide rule the coward,
While the valiant makes their own time.
Take it slow and be the flow,
Leave the racing to the boneless slime.
Those who say that competition is good,
Are but primitives whose religion is dollar.
A world founded on soulless competition,
Will never be free from societal disorder.
Have some regard for the worth of life,
Dishonor it not by treating as NASCAR.
Feel, think and behave as a human being,
Not as a preprogrammed teleprompter.
The rivers and birds fear no competition,
Yet without them the world cannot function.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Competitive sports can bring out the best in people. Instead of playing small, they overcome their self-doubts and fears. They let their light shine. They find courage, which is the opposite of discourage, and tap into their reservoir of potential. Reflect a moment. Can you remember a time when you were a hero, when you showed heart, courage, and fearlessness that maybe you didn’t think you had?”
― Gary Mack, Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence

“Competitions are for horses, not heroes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“What is success? Is it winning a race, or is it having a really strong relationship with a partner, or seeing our daughter laugh with happiness? Is it achieving something in my career? Is it achieving balance? Is it getting 8 hours sleep? I’m slowly working out what success is for me, because previously it was winning a race. I’m trying to see success through a slightly different lens rather than always see it through satisfying my competitive streak and position in a race. Success and happiness aren’t one and the same. What’s important to me right now is the pursuit of happiness.”
― Chrissie Wellington

“Their friendship doesn't undermine their competitiveness, and competing against each other doesn't put pressure on their friendship, they insist. It makes them better runners. "I feel much stronger having Kara there," Flanagan says. "I feel invincible, like I've got a Secret Weapon that all those other athletes who have to train alone don't have. It's like I've got extra ammo, in a way.”
― Anonymous

“I did my research and got courageous enough to ask for a competitive rate. That meant I had more money to build a safety net for myself.”
― Amy Purdy, On My Own Two Feet: The Journey from Losing My Legs to Learning the Dance of Life

“Businessmen and corporations must develop good competitive strategies to survive, and find cooperative opportunities to grow the pie.”
― Avinash K. Dixit, The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life

“It's only the savages who boast about healthy competition. Competition is but fodder for division and self-obsession.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“With proper support, resources, and guidance, eSports has the potential to revolutionize education and prepare students for success in the digital age.”
― Hemdan M. Aly

“Den Dhur stared out through the viewport and considered whether the relief from boredom offered by challenging Thi Xon Yimmon to a game of dejarik was worth the extreme humiliation that would inevitably follow.”
― Michael Reaves, The Last Jedi