Quotes about Rivalry
You know my powers, my dear Watson, and yet at the end of three months I was forced to confess that I had at last met an antagonist who was my intellectual equal.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness.
- Charles Spurgeon
Once said that his political adversary "dived down deeper into the sea of knowledge and came up drier than any other man he knew.
- Abraham Lincoln
Those who strive are often watched by others who will take advantage of their defeat to benefit themselves.
- Aesop
Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.
- Elbert Hubbard
I have played my fair share of bad guys, or at least the nemesis.
- Eric Johnson
Finishing in the top four for Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Man United was easier before, but now it's getting much more difficult with the emergence of teams like Manchester City.
- Sam Allardyce
The man you love to hate.
- Anonymous
Every man's sword was against his fellow.
- Anonymous
Every man's sword shall be against his brother.
- Anonymous
Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
- Anonymous
His enemies shall lick the dust.
- Anonymous