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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals. -- Benjamin Franklin
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. -- Fulton J. Sheen
I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals. -- Hermann Maier
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise. -- Virgil Thomson
Modeling is a tough job, your co-workers are your rivals, it really puts a damper on your perspective of other girls. -- Adriana Lima
Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals. -- E. O. Wilson
One I'm deeply into is Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals." I was the only person in the US who hadn't read it. -- Dave Barry
If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals -- C. S. Lewis
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Don't divide the world into 'them' and 'us.' Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours. -- Donald Rumsfeld
I'm reading "Team of Rivals'' I'll probably ending up reading a bunch of books about the Civil War. But I think my all-time favorite book about the war is the novel, "The Killer Angels'' by Michael Shaara. -- Dave Barry
Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals is instructive in painting a realistic portrayal of Lincoln and his methods for accomplishing his objectives. In fact, many good political biographies are useful in learning about power, strategy, and decision-making. -- Jeffrey Pfeffer
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. -- Thomas Huxley
Simple yet succinct, Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals exposes the idols of modernity and provides the biblical arsenal needed for their complete destruction. Trevin Wax provides medicine for the heart in this short, powerful study. Read it and be blessed. -- Daniel L. Akin
Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in Team of Rivals, he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious. -- Douglas Wilder
Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious. -- Douglas Wilder
Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one. -- Dennis Bergkamp
Work until your idols become your rivals -- G-Dragon
When it comes to girl bands, we're all rivals. -- Jenny Frost
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. -- Gautama Buddha
...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise -- David Fairchild
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives. -- Richard Dawkins
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed. -- Christopher Hampton
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory. -- Salman Rushdie
The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections. -- Djuna Barnes
The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High. -- Charles Spurgeon
Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline which rivals and even betters Tokyo. -- Paul Oakenfold
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. -- Robert Anton Wilson
There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The successful one has this over his rivals: he knows where he is going. -- Mark Cane
Golden rule of life: never underestimate your rivals. -- Sid Waddell
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart? -- Pablo Casals
The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste. -- Valentino Rossi
People tease me about knowing somehow that Obama would put Clinton into the cabinet, and everybody would talk about a team of rivals. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going. -- Mark Caine
Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals. -- Barton Gellman
Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over the whole range of human activities - that constitutes its most decisive superiority over any of its rivals. -- Paul Johnson
Theosophy tries to bridge the gulf between Buddhism and Christianity by pointing to the fundamental spiritual truths on which both religions are built, and by winning people to regard the Buddha and the Christ as fellow-laborers, and not as rivals. -- Annie Besant
Dior makes the best lip glosses going. I'm nuts about them, especially the clear one with the silver sparkles. I got addicted to DiorShow Mascara, too. It makes you look like you're wearing false eyelashes. It's the only one that rivals Maybelline. -- Sharon Stone
Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation. -- Alcee Hastings
Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps. -- Carl Honore
Some of the fans here were not too sure about their club signing a player from their biggest rivals. Fortunately, we had a great season and won the League title for the first time in four years. Now, I think, everyone can say it was good business. -- Luis Figo
It's not good to focus on one person or two persons about being your rivals. The important thing is just to train hard and be ready for the competition and to prepare for the races so that in case of anything that comes out, you are able to handle it. -- David Rudisha
The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more naturally gifted than me - either with their mental machines or their bodies. But I have believed in my training, my approach to learning, and my ability to rise to the challenge under pressure. -- Joshua Waitzkin
The energy of college football rivals that of a live performance for me. I am an extremely analytical guy and predicting these games is right up my alley, especially with a little luck thrown in. It is even more fun when I am winning and I have to say, I have fared quite well in my predictions. -- Rodney Atkins
Women do not disapprove their rivals; they hate them. -- James Parton
He who is in love with himself has no rivals. -- Benjamin Franklin
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Winners aren't perfect. They made fewer mistakes than their rivals. -- Morton Blackwell
He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored. -- John Irving
Teachers are the worst. Just shameless about kicking off their rivals. -- Anne Robinson
Lovers have an ineffable instinct which detects the presence of rivals. -- Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer
Unfortunately, I've been fighting injuries recently more than facing rivals in the ring. -- Vitali Klitschko
I never single out any one competitor. I treat all my rivals equally. -- Usain Bolt
Of two heroes, he who esteems his rivals the most is the greatest. -- Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle
Products with higher user engagement have the potential to grow faster than their rivals. -- Nir Eyal
Success in business means doing things better than rivals, not just doing things well. -- Phil Rosenzweig
I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides. -- Ehud Barak
I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals. -- Dawn Fraser
I'm looking to get in the best shape possible for London and not worrying about rivals. -- Dayron Robles
In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself. -- Franz Stampfl
The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville. -- Kristi Yamaguchi
He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
I just like that dynamic in relationships in movies where they're kind of lovers as rivals, you know? -- Marc Webb
Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I'm in good form there are chances that rivals will worry more about you more than you about them. -- Dayron Robles
England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe. -- Albert Bushnell Hart
The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste. -- Valentino Rossi
Self-righteous and entitled but they swearin' on the bible that they love you when really they no different from your rivals. -- Nicki Minaj
We will always meet rivals in everything we do, but the most dangerous are those we believe to be our friends. -- Paulo Coelho
Hate not your enemies; love thy rivals, for this is the only way to convert them into your friends and your partners! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
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. -- Michael Porter
Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result. -- Jean-Marie Le Pen
The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all. -- John Mearsheimer
Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone. -- Lance Armstrong
If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place. -- Criss Jami
I will always remember and we must all remember that Democrats are our political rivals, not our enemies, and they deserve our respect. -- Ken Mehlman
The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades. -- Ian Bremmer
The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended. -- J. K. Bharavi
In a way it's the emotional feeling that you get in a good rock song or folk song, there's just nothing that rivals that. -- Bryce Dessner
Congratulations to one of my favorite opponents and greatest rivals on returning to the WWE. The Rock is the BEST promo man of all time... -- Chris Jericho
In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment. -- Charles Darwin
Of course, rivals do affect athletes mentally, but if you are competing with top-notch athletes, you will push each other, you will encourage each other. -- Liu Xiang
William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland. -- Kenneth Tynan
To be converted to faith in Jesus Christ is to return to the worship of the true God, and to dethrone all rivals to his authority. -- Graham Kendrick
Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals. -- Charles Caleb Colton
What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he? But rather than they should excel, He'd wish his rivals all in Hell. -- Jonathan Swift
Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up and devoured those of the Egyptians. -- Joseph Addison
Even while we hate, we still have that deep unusual compassion for our rivals, and they hate it when they realize that we are feeling sorry for them. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
The Australian Open attracts one of the most competitive line-ups in the world and I'm looking forward to putting the heat on some of my old on-court rivals. -- Mark Philippoussis
I gave (my drivers) three things: a sense of optimism, a creative environment, and the ultimate motivator-competition. By competing with each other in-house, we wound up beating our rivals. -- Enzo Ferrari
Scotland and England may sometimes be rivals, but by geography, we are also neighbours. By history, allies. By economics, partners. And by fate and fortune, comrades, friends and family. -- Douglas Alexander
I don't see any of my colleagues as rivals. I don't think our generation needs to do that. We are a chilled out lot, and we should all be happy. -- Shahid Kapoor
Men may be rivals, opponents in their fortunes, and yet be friends in their hearts and fair towards each other's worth; but woman, the instant she is rivaled, becomes unjust. -- Jane Welsh Carlyle
When currying favor with Washington is seen as a much easier way to make money, businesses inevitably begin to compete with rivals in securing government largess, rather than in winning customers. -- Charles Koch
The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual one that happened in the 1400s. -- Daryl Hall
I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy. -- Chris Cleave
It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
My title rivals are behind me but at the moment I am not thinking about that. My target is to finish on the podium and then well see where everybody else is. -- Valentino Garavani
We have set out to promote the work of community and faith-based charities. Government cannot be replaced by charities, but it can welcome them as partners instead of resenting them as rivals. -- George W. Bush
We may be of the same family, but that is the very reason why we are not friends, for we are rivals for the throne. What quarrels are worse than family quarrels? -- Philippa Gregory
One cannot fail to observe a crushing irony: the gospel of relativistic tolerance is perhaps the most â??evangelisticâ? movement in Western culture at the moment, demanding assent and brooking no rivals. -- D. A. Carson
We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us as rivals and trespassers. But we always look for allies when we hate. -- Eric Hoffer
I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay. -- Garry Kasparov
Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her. -- Bernhard von Bulow
Surviving the first round is never my aim. Ideally, I'd be in one group with Brazil, Argentina and Germany. Then I'd have lost two rivals after the first round. That's how I think. Idealisitic. -- Johan Cruijff
Letting the greens dictate your energy choices, whether it's halting the XL Pipeline or fracking in New York, isn't just bad economics. It can also leave your rivals and enemies controlling your energy destiny. -- Arthur L. Herman
Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
You're offering a great service. People are tuning in. So continue to find great people, continue to do what you're doing. And do it better than your rivals. I know that's easier said than done... -- Richard Branson
No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each purple gorge is reflected with a vividness that rivals the original. -- Herbert Hoover

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