quotes about Rivalry
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I'm gonna have to start winning some of the matches to call it a rivalry!
-- Andy Roddick -
Service rivalry leads to service pride, which is good for building morale and esprit.
-- Anthony Zinni -
The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.
-- Charles Horton Cooley -
I think we have no apologies to make. We were in a state of global rivalry with a global adversary.
-- Chester Crocker -
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I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don't knock another sister, ever. There's room for everybody on this planet; you don't have to be like anyone else.
-- Cyndi Lauper -
There are no frictions between us, there is only rivalry.
-- Edward VII -
The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead.
-- Fred ArmisenSource : "Fred Armisen On SNL’s ‘The Californians’ Sketch: ‘I’m So Glad Cities Have Personalities’" by Anna Almendrala, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19,2012.
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To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
-- Indira GandhiSource : "Selected speeches and writings of Indira Gandhi, September 1972-March 1977". Book by Indira Gandhi, 1984.
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Women do not disapprove their rivals; they hate them.
-- James PartonSource : James Parton (1868). “Smoking and Drinking”, p.32
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Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.
-- John George NicolaySource : John George Nicolay (2008). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History: Easyread Large Edition”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com
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It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works; they have eyes only for spots and blemishes.
-- Joseph AddisonSource : Joseph Addison (1761). “The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;”, p.63
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Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.
-- Louisa May Alcott -
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The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.
-- Luciano Pavarotti -
There is no rivalry between Google and traditional advertising.
-- Maurice Saatchi -
Great rivalries don't have to be built on hatred. They're built on respect, on a respect for excellence.
-- Mike Krzyzewski -
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Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.
-- Nicolas Chamfort -
Not everybody can like what I do, and if you feel that somebody is coming up closer to you and starting the rivalry and everything, you maybe change your position to him.
-- Novak Djokovic -
It is safer and wiser to cure unhealthy rivalry than to suppress it.
-- Obafemi Awolowo -
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Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.
-- Plutarch -
I don't feel rivalry. I'm the least competitive person you'll meet ever, to a fault.
-- Rob Corddry -
As far as I'm concerned I've never had a problem with anybody, no rivalry.
-- Soundarya -
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With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay -
I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
-- William Tecumseh Sherman -
I earned the name from the Greek god Zelos who is the god of rivalry.
-- Zelo -
My two daughters are now engaged in a scribbling rivalry.
-- Annie Duke -
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If you're opposites, you complement each other; you aren't jealous. Just annoyance and fighting, as opposed to rivalry.
-- Matthew Friedberger -
It's true that tribal rivalries have something to do with political instability. It's also true that those rivalries were exaggerated by colonialism. Colonialism essentially insulted the tribal territories, and as a result, nations came to be composed of an agglomeration of many tribes - 65 in Burkina Faso alone. The Mossi majority sees itself as the owner of Africa; others are just negotiators for representation. That is the way it is now, and it is the sole responsibility of colonialism.
-- Malidoma Patrice SomeSource : "VISIONS: Malidoma Some". Interview With D. Patrick Miller, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1995.