Top 1200 Competitive Spirit Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.

I am competitive because it is fun, a mentality thing, and it is something you have to be in this job.

I don't like conflicts. I'm not a competitive person at heart. To be in the middle of turmoil is boring.

I'm open to the gifts of the Spirit. The real healings are so beautiful I hate to see it blasphemed by fakes who merchandise the gifts. Bethel Church and HRock Church now charge thousands of dollars to teach the gifts of the Spirit in contrast to the Apostle Peter who rebuked Simon for offering money for it.

We all have different styles, so it's part of the game trying to be competitive and compete and be determined.

At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.

If you observe children with sufficient objectivity as they grow into the world, then you will perceive that children's temporal bodies are still not fully connected with the spirit-soul. The task of education, understood in a spiritual sense, is to bring the soul-spirit into harmony with the temporal body.

Emotional labor is available to all of us, but it is rarely exploited as a competitive advantage.

I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.

Any spirit that permits compromise with the world is a false spirit. Any religious movement that imitates the world in any of its manifestations is false to the cross of Christ and on the side of the devil.

Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.

It is a misfortune, inseparable from human affairs, that public measures are rarely investigated with that spirit of moderation which is essential to a just estimate of their real tendency to advance or obstruct the public good; and that this spirit is more apt to be diminished than prompted, by those occasions which require an unusual exercise of it.

A little competitive side of me just doesn't want to come dead last.

To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in the first place. A revelation of the Holy Spirit in one glorious flash of inward illumination would teach you more of Jesus than five years in a theological seminary.

Empowering people turns Wal-Mart's culture into a competitive advantage.

He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty out of ugliness. He can transform a sin-blistered man into a paragon of virtue. The Spirit changes people. The Author of life is also the Transformer of life.

If my spirit is down, then so are the physical and mental levels. That's always been the case. When I'm motivated, my body feels great and I'm ready and excited to go. When I get burned out, I feel it in all three categories - mind, body and spirit. I'm aware and in touch with all three categories.

Well-trained and dedicated employees are the only sustainable source of competitive strength.

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

Because peace is a fruit of the Spirit, we are dependent upon the Spirit's work in our lives to produce the desire and the means to pursue peace. But we are also responsible to use the means He has given us and to take all practical steps to attain both peace within and peace with others.

Low-wage jobs have gone offshore. We need to innovate to stay competitive.

If you are not playing in your position in a league as competitive as England then it is difficult.

As a driver, your target is always to be with the most competitive team possible.

If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.

Being the competitive guy that I am, I can't get into individual battles like I have.

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

After I got done playing basketball, I needed a competitive outlet.

I am way too competitive! I get so crazy that I don't even care.

I haven't worked with people who are jealous or competitive. That's a particularly deadly attitude to have when you're working on a film.

If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.

I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.

Our civilization cannot survive materially unless it is redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the Spirit of Christ, and being made free and happy by practices which spring out of that spirit. Only thus can discontent be driven out and all shadows lifted from the road ahead.

When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in the creative spirit. We're helping ourselves stay in touch with that spirit, too. It's the things we play withand the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.

I'm freakishly competitive, so I set a date to achieve a certain weight or fitness.

I might be needy, competitive and desperate but it's far better than being wet.

Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.

I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.

My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me in spirit always. I have lived with her spirit guiding me every day and she is with me now as I write this letter, and helps me to do as I am now doing.

Only the Holy Spirit can purify the intellect, for unless a greater power comes and overthrows the despoiler, what he has taken captive will never be set free (cf. Lk. 11:21-22). In every way, therefore, and especially through peace of soul, we must make ourselves a dwelling-place for the Holy Spirit.

Everything has to be within the rules, but the physical side in England is why it's such a competitive league.

It's a huge competitive advantage to see in real time what's happening with your data.

If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.

I am very competitive - with myself and everybody else. I'm petty, too.

The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit.

I am quite competitive. In stupid things like card games.

Life and perfection, joy and repose and whatever all the senses desire, lie in the distinguishing spirit, and from it they have everything that they have. Even if the organs lose in power and the life in them decreases in activity, it does not decrease in the distinguishing spirit, from which they receive the same life, when the fault or infirmity is removed.

When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... It's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.

There's nothing pretty about competitive eating. It might be uncouth, but it is fun, and it is lighthearted.

I think I can be competitive. Heck, anybody who can walk to the first tee here has a chance.

For us to stay competitive, we're transforming our services business to be reliable and flexible.

If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer, the genius of the whole system, the nature of just and constitutional laws, and above all the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America, a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it.

I think the spirit survives when we die, and nothing is wasted in nature and just as our material body disintegrates and becomes something else in the soil. The spirit becomes something else, reunites with a spiritual force that is out there in the universe. Not as individuals but as part of this spirituality.

The thing about hockey for me is I'm really competitive and I like to have fun.

I'm a competitive player, a fighter, and I always try to improve what I think needs improving.

We're going to continue to look for ways that we can make our state competitive.

The greatest competitive advantage in the modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.

In many countries, IT is a pillar of growth and attracts a lot more competitive talent.

To gain the competitive edge, companies must master the ability to innovate.

It is the Spirit of Christ in us that will draw satan's fire. The people of the world will not much care what we believe and they will stare vacantly at our religious forms, but there is one thing they will never forgive us-the presence of God's Spirit in our hearts. They may not know the cause of that strange feeling of antagonism which rises within them, but it will be nonetheless real and dangerous. satan will never cease to make war on the Man-child, and the soul in which dwells the Spirit of Christ will continue to be the target for his attacks.