Competition Quotes

Competition in business is a blessing, for without it, we wouldn't be motivated to improve.

If the reason of your sleeplessness is competition, then you will make a successful businessman.

We all judge. But when I realize that judgmental thoughts and actions are merely my primitive nature trying to "protect" me from being one-upped or making sure I am not one-upped, it makes it easier to laugh at my silliness. �

Charles F. Glassman

I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change what the sane will not. This is the paradox of philosophers---trying to understand mass delusion among great people that have faith and knowledge, yet they can’t graduate from their institutions of religious theology to apply the knowledge they have gained for the shifting of Zion---- from words to action; from comfort to uncomfortable; from self serving to self giving; from competition to supporting; to tradition to unity; from bias to acceptance; from me to us.

Shannon L. Alder

When the fuel is dried up in a vehicle, it stops driving automatically. You are a vehicle in the spiritual and the physical world, so you need some oil for alacrity, in order to get to your destination. The greater the quantity of your oil, the more you cover the distance, and the more you cover the distance, the closer you get to your success.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Women aren't my competition because male attention and sexual objectification are not prizes for me.

Miya Yamanouchi

Your child is least interested in what the report card says. All that matters to him / her is what you say on seeing the report card.

A deceitful man will go as far as to trample all over a woman’s reputation and spirit, in order to prove to his ex-love that he was faithful. The irony, is he is still in love with his ex and the new woman in his life doesn’t even realize it.

Shannon L. Alder

My artificial creations will be better than nature's natural creations.

God gave us ground we created a city, God gave us time we need to create a future.

When it comes to creating things, I compete with nature not with men.

Most people are about as happy as their self confidence will allow them to be.

Shannon L. Alder

It is not a person or situation that affects your life; it is the meaning you give to that person or situation, which influences your emotions and actions. Your choice is to change the meaning you gave it or to change your response, in order to create the outcome you want.

Shannon L. Alder

Runner up is champion of the losers.

The secret to unseating great power, is not to move the other direction, but to compete directly against their goals.

Complements from your companion will do you no good, but if you get complements from your competitors it means you are really doing good.

To be a champion, compete; to be a great champion, compete with the best; but to be the greatest champion, compete with yourself.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is foolish for the moon to compete with the sun for the spotlight.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

Shannon L. Alder

FORKED BRANCHESWe grew up on the same street,You and me.We went to the same schools,Rode the same bus,Had the same friends,And even shared spaghettiWith each other's families.And though our roots belong toThe same tree,Our branches have grownIn different directions.Our tree,Now resembles a thousandOther treesIn a sea of a trillionOther treesWith parallel destiniesAnd similar dreams.You cannot envy the branchThat grows biggerFrom the same seed,And you cannotBlame it on the sun's direction.But you still compare us,As if we're still those twoKids at the parkSlurping down slushies andEating ice cream. Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun (2010)

Competition in business is a blessing, for without it, we wouldn’t be motivated to improve.

Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A Rival Can Become an Important Ally If WE Find A Common Ground

Izey Victoria Odiase