#competition

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#authors #competition #dead #envy #living

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#criminal #life #nothing #rather #than

We built that into a wholesale business that became, really, one of the largest companies in the United States. We had success in building new markets, opening markets for competition, and that takes a personal toll. ↗

— Jeffrey Skilling

#building #built #business #companies #competition

I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#basketball #chapter #closing #competition #i

There's always competition out there. That's what makes life exciting. ↗

— Carolyn Murphy

#competition #exciting #life #makes #out

The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches. ↗

— Michel Patini

#competition #entire #european #every #finals

At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won. ↗

— Andre Boucourechliev

#competition #concerto #end #felt #head

Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy. ↗

— Marshall Field

#cannot #competition #destroy #goodwill #only

With competition everyone has to try harder. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#everyone #harder #try

There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#competitions #ever #first #fleming #i