Rival Quotes

“Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.”
― Dennis E. Adonis

“... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Not everyone knows what it is to have your father’s rival’s penis inches from your nose.”
― Ian McEwan, Nutshell

“The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.”
― Joseph McCabe, The Existence Of God

“When gorillas smell danger, they run around and call out to the rest of the primates in the jungle to warn them something evil is coming. And when one of their own dies, they mourn for days while beating themselves up in sadness for failing to save that gorilla, even if the cause of death was natural. And when one colony is mourning, their chilling echoes migrate to other colonies — and those neighbors, even if they are territorial rivals, will also grieve with them. When faced with a common danger, rivals turn into allies. And when faced with death, the loss of just one gorilla becomes the loss of the entire jungle.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Harvey, Harvey, Harvey, I always wanted to be a hero in my life but i knew people won't let me to be a hero they only let you to be a villain, you know a villain, with a knife because these cheap maggots always want you to hurt them, hurt them badly." the joker said angrily.”
― Neymat Khan

“If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“The strong overcome their opponents, the mighty crush them, the shrewd outwit them, the cowardly hide from them, but the enlightened transcend them.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Survival in scarcity dictates nastiness with a rival clan, but also dictates goodness towards our own clan whose support is vital to acquire or defend the necessary scarcities.

Man’s nastiness or goodness is not his fault or merit;
They both create the vital coping mechanism to his environment of scarcity.”
― Haroutioun Bochnakian, The Human Consensus and The Ultimate Project Of Humanity

“When Peter made mistakes, Wendy cheered for him anyway. One afternoon he beat her and everyone else in a race organized by Slightly. She only laughed and squeezed his wrist with easy affection and told him how fast he was. She was so undeterred by losing that it made the boys wonder if winning was exactly what they’d thought it was or if in England it was different.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“Traditional competition forces us to take on an attitude of winning. A worthy rival inspires us to take an attitude of improvement. The former focuses our attention on the outcome, the latter focuses our attention on process.”
― Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game

“If the reason of your sleeplessness is competition, then you will make a successful businessman.”
― Amit Kalantri

“That's why he hates you, because you didn't suffer when he tried to punish you.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“I think I'll wear the Chian outfit,' he said to his body servant standing waiting for orders. Many men in Marius's position would have lain back in the bath water and demanded that they be scrubbed, scraped, and massaged by slaves, but Gaius Marius preferred to do his own dirty work, even now. Mind you, at forty-seven he was still a fine figure of a man. Nothing to be ashamed of about his physique! No matter how ostensibly inert his days might be, he got in a fair amount of exercise, worked with the dumbbells and the closhes, swam if he could several times across the Tiber in the reach called the Trigarium, then ran all the way back from the far perimeter of the Campus Martius to his house on the flanks of the Capitoline Arx. His hair was getting a bit thin on top, but he still had enough dark brown curls to brush forward into a respectable coiffure. There. That would have to do. A beauty he had never been, never would be. A good face - even an impressive one - but no rival for Gaius Julius Caesar's!”
― Colleen McCullough, The First Man in Rome

“Accordingly, the loss of the beloved one through a rival, or through death, is the greatest pain of all to those passionately in love; just because it is of a transcendental nature, since it affects him not merely as an individual, but also assails him in his essentia aeterna, in the life of the species, in whose special will and service he was here called. This is why jealousy is so tormenting and bitter, and the giving up of the loved one the greatest of all sacrifices.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays of Schopenhauer

“The heart of the jealous knows the best and the most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections. Fancy gallops to take part in that duel, unconstrained by any certain articulation of the laws of that unseen game.”
― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

“I never expected to feel better. I just wanted them to feel worse.”
― Penelope Douglas, Rival

“In life, always choose a serious rival even if you know you have no chance to win, because a good rival is always a good teacher!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The worst weapon of your enemy, rival, competitor, distractor is creating self-doubt in you and/or your team. They cannot win you without first destroying your self-worth.”
― Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership

“She hated his need to always win and he hated her coldness during their arguments. They fought about the exact color of the sky and which path they should take on a hunt. They disagreed passionately about whose fish was the best tasting. They could work up extreme hatred for each other at a moment's notice.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“Cuando decidía contestar, ojos se encontraban, y su sonrisa se reflejaba a veces en los labios de su rival. Iba haciéndose progresivamente más fuerte la creencia de que aquella situación era una cortina —casi una broma— y ocultaba algo real, que ambos deseaban”
― E.M. Forster

“If there is one thing I can promise, that I can guarantee, it is not that I can protect my other allies from the same fate as Sage, it is not that I will not lose battles in the war, it is not that there will be times that will try my determination, it is this: I am the Pauraque’s rival. And I shall be the one to watch her fall.”
― Hannah E. O'Neal, the Pauraque's Game

“An athlete with a running nose and a running stomach is fortunate. If he combines these ‘runnings’ with a pair of running legs, he is set to run to infinity with the speed of light. He has no rival.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“An image of Charlotte hung permanently in Robin's head these days, like a shadowy portrait she'd never wanted hung . . . Last night, though, that image had become stark and fixed: a darkly romantic vision of a lost and dying love, breathing her final words in Strike's ear as she lay among the trees.”
― Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood

“The rival of truth; in fact, is own suicide, but evidently, what seems the truth is not the truth; it is only a trick and in that displays the dance of the defeat”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“The more you socialize, more you increase your exposure of being vulnerable to give up vital information to your rivals.”
― Himangshu Shekhar

“The more you socialize, the more you increase your exposure of being vulnerable to give up vital information to your rivals.”
― Himangshu Shekhar

“Partnership as a keyword in Islam carries a negative connotation when associated with Allah since any partnership implies another outside of Allah as a rival.”
― Nakhati Jon, Searching Below the Surface: A Deeper Look at Covenant and Contract