Competing Quotes

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
Marilyn Monroe

Life, Men, Business

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.
Bill Cosby

School, Start, Show

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

May, Learned, Training

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.
Bill Gates

Food, Moving, Energy

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
Thomas Sowell

Speak, Against, Themselves

As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.
Morihei Ueshiba

Good, Yourself, Heart

Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.
Ayrton Senna

Life, Everything, Else

Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
E. O. Wilson

Selfish, Win, Between

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.
Lance Armstrong

Country, Tough, Around

I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.
Lil Wayne

Best, Everything, Trying

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
E. O. Wilson

Strength, Against, Religious

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?
J. C. Watts

Government, Cannot, Used

These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.
Billy Corgan

What is the point of competing for a trophy if everyone gets a trophy?
Glenn Beck

Everyone, Point, Trophy

American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.
Camille Paglia

Power, History, War

We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!
Margaret J. Wheatley

War, Experience, Real

No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.
Victoria Principal

Work, Interested, Harder

I love competing.
Maria Sharapova

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.
Vera Wang

Life, Success, Learn

I think when you talk about competing against others, the problem is that you refer to something that's been done already and try to beat it.
Shigeru Miyamoto

Done, Try, Others

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.
Sarah Palin

Politics, Good, Game

The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.
Jon Meacham

Life, Power, American

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.
Major Owens

Time, Busy, Compassion

I loved competing and winning and also wanted to continue my career for the fans, knowing they were there for me and enjoyed watching me fight.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Fight, Winning, Career

I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Romantic, Football, Night

Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.
Haile Gebrselassie

Country, Sometimes, Difficult

We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.
Eric Liu

Politics, Positive, Bad

You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.
Richard Roeper

Yourself, Find, Against

I've never had a teammate competing with me my whole life.
Shawn Johnson

Life, Whole, Teammate

I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.
Wilma Rudolph

Freedom, Feeling, Person

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