Rivalry Quotes

“Flipendo! ... Keep up, old man.
Harry: We're the same age, Draco.
Draco: I wear it better.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two

“Love is close to hate when it comes to sisters. You're as close as two humans can be. You came from the same womb. The same background. Even if you're poles apart, mentally. That's why it hurts so much when your sister is unkind. It's as though part of you is turning against yourself.”
― Jane Corry

“People who take you for granted would be mad at those who regard you as something.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“Your wit never ceases to underwhelm me.”
― A.E. Kirk, Midnight Poison

“When two persons are too close, they fall apart.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“Female competition is when you are with a guy you like and you look around, see that you're the prettiest girl in the vicinity and feel a huge sense of relief that there's no one to take the attention away from you. (Female competition is a result of women feeling like their greatest sense of self worth , identity and influence comes from their sexual appeal to men. Many women don't even realise they are feeling this way and it's a subconscious thing, but they notice themselves getting jealous when they see other women who they think men would find sexually appealing.)”
― Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

“Where envy is unavoidable it must be used as a stimulus to one’s own efforts, not to the thwarting of the efforts of rivals.”
― Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

“At the root of every form of ungodliness, injustice, nepotism, selfishness, every rivalry and competitive jealousy, is the monster called greed.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“Adopt as your ambition the creation of a world in which those who work against you see the light and wake up and succeed, so that the better at which you are aiming can encompass them, too.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Anger, resentment, jealousy, desire for revenge, lust, greed, antagonisms, and rivalries are the obvious signs that I have left home. And that happens quite easily. When I pay careful attention to what goes on in my mind from moment to moment, I come to the disconcerting discovery that there are very few moments during the day when I am really free from these dark emotions, passions and feelings.

Constantly falling back into an old trap, before I am even fully aware of it, I find myself wondering why someone hurt me, rejected me, or didn't pay attention to me. Without realizing it, I find myself brooding about someone else's success, my own loneliness, and the way the world abuses me. Despite my conscious intentions, I often catch myself daydreaming about becoming rich, powerful, and very famous. All of these mental games reveal to me the fragility of my faith that I am the Beloved One on whom God's favor rests. I am so afraid of being disliked, blamed, put aside, passed over, ignored, persecuted, and killed, that I am constantly developing strategies to defend myself and thereby assure myself of the love I think I need and deserve. And in so doing I move far away from my father's home and choose to dwell in a "distant country.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

“I am apt to think she was too artful to rail at me, but rather pretended to have a kindness for me, and like Iago gave, as she saw occasion, wounds in the dark.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“Female competition is when you are with a guy you like and you look around, see a girl who is prettier than you standing nearby, and think to yourself: "I wish she wasn't here." -This is what happens when you attach your identity and sense of worth to the amount of male attention you receive.”
― Miya Yamanouchi , Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

“Violence is formed by the scarcity of nature, and will stay with us as long as we live in scarcity.”
― Haroutioun Bochnakian, The Human Consensus and The Ultimate Project Of Humanity

“When the boy was grown and out hunting, the goddess brought Callisto before him, intending to have him shoot his mother, in ignorance, of course. But Zeus snatched the bear away and placed her among the stars, where she is called the Great Bear. Later, her son Arcas was placed beside her and called the Lesser Bear. Hera, enraged at this honor to her rival, persuaded the God of the Sea to forbid the Bears to descend into the ocean like the other stars. They alone of the constellations never set below the horizon.”
― Edith Hamilton, Mythology

“You have to make your peace with Kaden, and he with you. You are not on opposite sides anymore. Do you understand?”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Beauty of Darkness

“You are a worthy competitor, the best rival I ever encountered, it is an honour to be your opponent, you are better than me at many things, but you cannot beat me at politeness.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“I have always wanted to kill you, all my life led to that blow. Jealousy and hatred compose my earliest memories. I have killed you every day in my thoughts.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

“Hook's fingers always twitched when he spoke of Pan. It turned him dark and antsy, and his jaw clenched and unclenched. It was an old grudge, and Smee still didn't understand where it had begun. All he knew was that Hook was stuck on it: he sometimes repeated a conversation over and over again, that he imagined he was having with Peter.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“He never unbends to Paul completely anyway. I detect just the faintest air of condescension when they’re together, the natural conviction of superiority that it seems a man of six foot three can’t help feeling over a man just five foot seven and a half.”
― Sinclair Ross, As for Me and My House

“Show to others that rivalry is the passion you should have, and you will be able to transform them and yourself as their faces shines for you.”
― Alan Maiccon

“Understand the nuances of rivalry can help extend your career. It doesn’t mean you’ll be holding hands across the finish line. It means their presence makes you better, faster, stronger. Because of them, you’ll find out exactly what you are made of.”
― Leena Patel, Raise Your Innovation IQ: 21 Ways to Think Differently During Times of Change

“Understanding the nuances of rivalry can help extend your career. It doesn’t mean you’ll be holding hands across the finish line. It means their presence makes you better, faster, stronger. Because of them, you’ll find out exactly what you are made of.”
― Leena Patel, Raise Your Innovation IQ: 21 Ways to Think Differently During Times of Change

“பகை மட்டும்தான் அளவற்ற வெறிகொண்டு மனதை இயக்கும் ஆற்றல் கொண்டது.”
― Su. Venkatesan, வீரயுக நாயகன் வேள்பாரி, முதல் தொகுதி

“பகைமை கொண்டு இயங்குபவன் விரைவில் வலிமை இழப்பான். பகை, சினத்தை மட்டுமே வளர்த்தெடுக்கும். போருக்கு தேவை சினமன்று. ஆனால், இதைத் தவிர மற்ற எல்லாவற்றையும் பகை பின்னுக்குத் தள்ளிவிடும்.”
― Su. Venkatesan, வீரயுக நாயகன் வேள்பாரி, முதல் தொகுதி

“But the most lasting rivalry between American landmasses is the one between the northern United States (really the northeastern United States) and the southern United States (really Texas, Alabama, South Carolina, all of Louisiana except New Orleans, and the whitest, most strip-mally regions of Florida). Although the north and south fought a war 150 years ago in order to determine which region's values were going to wind up guiding this nation forward, north vs. south has subsequently played out largely in our elections and pop culture.”
― Steven Hyden, Your Favorite Band is Killing Me

“Disdain is only as intense as similarity.”
― Mark Helprin, Freddy and Fredericka

“All the carriages filed out in single file but in a fashion that seemed to mean that they were competing against each other. The only sound that could be heard for a while was the pounding of the horses’ hooves and the squeal and groan of the wheels against the road. Their hooves kicked up dirt, creating a storm of dust.
Once the miniature storm and the sound of galloping horses subsided, I could only see one last person. He glared up at me and mouthed, “Next time.” Christopher dug his boots into Dawn’s muscled flank. She reared up and broke into a gallop through the sparse forest, heading for escape. The last trace of them was the particles of floating dust, bright like floating fire.”
― Erica Sehyun Song, Thorns in the Shadow

“All close friendships are marked with competition. Our earliest tests are against our siblings and playmates, and some of that rivalry endures amongst friends into adulthood. Like dogs play fighting, you learn not to bite hard.”
― Christopher Bollen

“Finally his thumbing rewarded him with what he was seeking.
Veronese... Veronese... of course! As he'd told Genevieve, he'd seen a Veronese painting when he'd visited Italy. Memorably because he'd found it erotic: Venus and Mars again, and this time Venus was not wearing a shred, and Mars was kneeling, getting ready to, as he'd inappropriately shared with Genevieve, give Venus a pleasuring.
"Genevieve loves a particular 'kind' of painter..." Harry began in a lecturing tone.
"She likes light and a grace of line, mythological subjects rich in subtext. She believes Botticelli is not rated highly enough as a painter. I happen to agree. I've seen his 'Venus and Mars' and I am quite moved by his use of mythological subjects. Very sensual."
Harry looked thunderstruck.
Hmm. The duke didn't know why he should feel authentically pleased by the fact that Genevieve had entrusted him with a confidence she hadn't yet confided in Harry.
"She hadn't shared that particular insight with you about Botticelli, Osborne? Perhaps it's a new one. One she's had only recently.”
― Julie Anne Long, What I Did for a Duke

“Ferdinando [King of Naples] resolv’d, in good Earnest, to try how to compromise the Affair of the Castles; being persuaded, that that when this Obstacle was remov'd, Matters would easily return into the fame peaceable Channel. But by removing the Causes, the Effects that sprung from them are not always remov'd. For, as it frequently happens, that Resolutions taken out of Fear seldom appear sufficient to the Fearful.”
― Francesco Guicciardini, The History of Italy