The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed—there's so little competition.

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.

Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any man or order of men.

I’m not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.

Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

The free flow of conflicting ideas and feelings is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.

True success, true wealth, does not come out of the barrel of a gun.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Never cross a man, not afraid to die.

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.