William Hazlitt Quotes About Competition

Quotes about: Competition

• When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends.

  William Hazlitt

  Competition, Progress, Doe

• Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.

  William Hazlitt

  Passion, Reflection, Men

• Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.

  William Hazlitt

  Running, Stupidity, Competition

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1467, Delphi Classics

• Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.

  William Hazlitt

  Competition, Triumph, Advantage

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.525

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