It’s important to get comfortable with our competitive feelings because we can be much more proactive in becoming the best version of ourselves. Inspirational competition quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.
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Most Famous Competition Quotes
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity. – Nancy Pearcey
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. – Confucius
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it. – Walt Disney
Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people. – DAVID SARNOFF
The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give. – Howard Cosell
You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that. – Michael Jordan
Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. – Henry Clay
I’m not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance. – Celine Dion
It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life. – LYMAN ABBOTT
Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose. – Baltasar Gracian
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights. – Shannon L. Alder
Life is a competition not with others, but with ourselves. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives; each day to master some weakness of yesterday; each day to repair a mistake; each day to surpass ourselves. – David B. Haight
Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone. – Lance Armstrong
Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t. – Malcolm X
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. – Indira Gandhi
Taste the relish to be found in competition — in having to put forth the best within you to match the deeds of risk-taking, hard-working competitors. – HENRY J. KAISER
Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people. – David Sarnoff
A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition. – James Cash Penney
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. – Indira Gandhi
No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal. – Bonnie Blair
If you can’t win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record. – EVAN ESAR
The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort. – Colin Powell
The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away. – Walter Wriston
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war. – NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. – Herbert Hoover
When a man can do better than everyone else in the same walk, he does not make any very painful exertions to outdo himself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends. – WILLIAM HAZLITT
All you have to do is play better than the other guy and things go well. If you don’t play better than the other players then somebody takes your place. – Bill Parcels
I’m not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance. – Celine Dion
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself. – Washington Allston
When a man can do better than everyone else in the same walk, he does not make any very painful exertions to outdo himself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends. – William Hazlitt
Healthy competition keeps you alert–keeps you driven: You’ll notice things that you might not have noticed before. When everyone else is in gear, there’s not time for you to sit in neutral. – PHIL MARTIN
Competition is a rude yet effective motivation. – Toba Beta
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. – Oprah Winfrey
Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you’ll be sick. – George Leonard
The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition. – W. CHAN KIM & RENEE MAUBORGNE
Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity. – Daniel Burrus
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do. – A. J. Kitt
You’ll never learn a thing from a competitor weaker than you. – Harvey Mackay
If you’re able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence. – Barbara Cook
When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men. – Eric Hoffer
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. – Napoleon Bonaparte
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace. – Ovid
Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one. – Bill Bradley
Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind. – Willard Beecher
Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you. – Henry J. Kaiser
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else. – William Saroyan
Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you. – Henry J. Kaiser
Free competition is worth more to society than it costs. – OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. – Herbert Hoover
Life is not a competition. No one has to lose for someone else to win. A true blessing blesses everyone. – DONNA GODDARD
This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth. – JANE ADDAMS
