Rivals Quotes

Work until your idols become your rivals

...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise

No matter how strong the rival, the just will always win.

I never single out any one competitor. I treat all my rivals equally.

When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.

If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.

Winners aren't perfect. They made fewer mistakes than their rivals.

Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.

I have always challenged myself and it's also important to learn from the rivals. Every rider has his own style, and you have to count on some elements that cannot be changed. On the contrary, the bike or the tires can change and it's important to adapt yourself. It's up to the rider to understand what he can change and how much he can adapt.

Dada cannot live in New York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival.

The ideal revolutionary command should effectively direct all planning and implementation. It must not allow the growth of any other rival center of power. There must be one command pooling and directing the subsequent governmental departments, including the armed forces.

Dream the dreams of other men, you'll be no ones rival.

I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.

Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal.

The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

I can say that Thiago Silva has no rival in his position. He is by far the best defender in the world. It’s a compliment for me to be compared to him.

After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and everyone - is fair game.

He who is in love with himself has no rivals.

Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched them grow back lost arms. On this day, this awful birthday of otherness, my rival, somebody else, I flung the starfish against a stone. Let it perish.

She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if you don't you must still please-in order to avoid having one.

There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace

Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.

There is no describing the feeling of being mistreated by a successful rival in front of the woman you worship.

But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.

A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.

In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler believed that his great-power rivals would be easy to exploit and isolate because each had little interest in fighting Germany and instead was determined to get someone else to assume the burden. He guessed right.

As a dancer I couldn't outdance Ginger Rogers or Eleanor Powell. As a singer I'm no rival to Doris Day. As an actress I don't take myself seriously...I'm the girl the truck drivers love.

The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all.

Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over all rival theories.

The very large units of production and exchange have access to credit on a large scale, sometimes without any cover at all, merely upon the prospect of their success, and always upon terms far easier than are open to their smaller rivals. It is perhaps on this line of easier credit that large capital today does most harm to small capital, drives it out and ruins it.

Fame is a jealous mistress And will brook no rival.

Don't divide the world into "them" and "us."

A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right.

Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.

Products with higher user engagement have the potential to grow faster than their rivals.

It was lovely to receive the affection from some of the supporters of our biggest rival, ... It doesn't happen to you very often in your career.

I just like that dynamic in relationships in movies where they're kind of lovers as rivals, you know?

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them

Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.