Rivalry Quotes - Page 2

• We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.

  Rose Macaulay

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

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• There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Two, Competition, Stronger

  Speech at Islamia College for women, March 25, 1940.

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• And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.

  John Ruskin

  Pride, Done

  "The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallizaion".

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• 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

  Military, Want, Accepting

  William Tecumseh Sherman, Brooks D. Simpson, Jean Vance Berlin (1999). “Sherman's Civil War: selected correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865”, The University of North Carolina Press

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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

  Jealous, Fighting, Annoyance

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.

  Khalil Gibran

  Music, Oneness, Soul

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.

  Elizabeth Fishel

  Friendship, Competition, Gold

  Elizabeth Fishel (1997). “Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties”, Red Wheel

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• Rivalry doesn't help anybody.

  Peter Jackson

  Helping

  "Peter Jackson: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 11, 2009.

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• Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.

  Peter Thiel

  Past, Opportunity, Causes

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.33, Crown Business

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• Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

  James Mark Baldwin

  Ideas, Feelings, Balance

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of psychology”

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• I think we have no apologies to make. We were in a state of global rivalry with a global adversary.

  Chester Crocker

  Apology, Thinking, States

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• It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.

  George Eliot

  Sex, Inferiority, Facts

  George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.353

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• Women do not disapprove their rivals; they hate them.

  James Parton

  Hate, Rivals

  James Parton (1868). “Smoking and Drinking”, p.32

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• If one must be rejected, one succeed, make him my lord within whose faithful breast is fixed my image, and who loves me best.

  John Dryden

  Faithful, Succeed, Lord

  John Dryden (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.13

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• The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic air, a much more bracing rivalry.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Ambition, Air, Adventurous

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• The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.

  Charles Trevelyan

  Class, Hatred, Today

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• In modern times we are often encouraged to protect our ego-force and individuality by securing a private world in which to develop our unique artistic voice. Many artists find themselves solo-paddling along a private and unchallenging river... Could rivalry be a productive system?

  Sara Genn

  Artist, Unique, Voice

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• I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.

  Patti Davis

  Brother, Sibling, America

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• We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.

  Peter De Vries

  Love, Brother, Sibling

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• Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people, to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since we are united by the same language, the same blood and the same visions.

  Alexander the Great

  Brother, Fighting, Fate

  "Historiae Alexandri Magni (Histories of Alexander the Great)". Book by Quintus Curtius Rufus, 2005.

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• One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

  Henry Adams

  Friendship, True Friend, Two

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

  Joseph Addison

  Greatness, Age, Matter

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1873). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.425

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• Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.

  Gretchen Wilson

  Daughter, Mother, Mother And Daughter

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• every one of us possesses a gene predisposing us toward rivalry, competition, and fits of envy with any past, present, or future siblings.

  Linda Sunshine

  Sibling, Past, Envy

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• When I looked at the state of women's MMA, what I saw was that it was missing rivalries or anything theatrical about it. Everybody was trying to be Miss America, unwilling to go under any kind of criticism, and taking the safe answers. I thought I needed to do whatever I could to get attention.

  Ronda Rousey

  Mma, America, Missing

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