Top 359 Rival Quotes & Sayings

Fame is a jealous mistress And will brook no rival.

IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors.

Of course we have respect for the rival.

Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

There has to be everything, but above all respect. Sometimes you cross the barrier of respect for many things - because you do not want to let the rival be, for being the eternal rival.

For us, the BSP is like any other rival.

Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it offers a rival authority to the state; the family, because it means a rival loyalty to the state; and property, because it means material independence of the state.

Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.

Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!

There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in him, and to see only what is bad. There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good.

Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.

And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?

Lee is such a brilliant rival. I treasure the opportunities we have to play each other.

Getafe is an uncomfortable rival for Barca and for anyone. They are experts in winning second balls.

The good is the greatest rival of the best.

Its always good to go above a local rival.

Russell Defreitas plotted to commit a terrorist attack that he hoped would rival 9/11.

The United States is pushing as policy division of the world into rival currency camps - the dollar area on the one hand, and the Russia-Chinese-Shanghai Cooperation Organization group on the other, especially now that the IMF has changed its rules. People think that if there are rival currency groupings and national currencies are going bust, we might as well use gold as a safe haven.

In life, always choose a serious rival even if you know you have no chance to win, because a good rival is always a good teacher!

Bosh. I find a rival - but no, I won't flatter myself that Tecumseh Fox would consider himself a rival of Dol Bonner - I find an eminent detective in your apartment, and that alone is enough, without adding that he is concealed in your bedroom while I am discussing my business with you.

I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.

I am not a historian. I don't see what I do as being a rival to biography.

In any sport, you need a rival.

I am my own main rival.

Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.

To get past a rival you have to be smart.

No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

Dream the dreams of other men, you'll be no ones rival.

Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.

Few writers can rival Helen Fielding when it comes to fully capturing the modern woman.

There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace

You never forget when you beat - or when you lose - to your city rival.

...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

It's the rival that gives you the tempo depending on who is on the ball or who a pass is played to. That is the little secret.

Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.

We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.

Study the processes and methods of those who are better at it than you... there's someone who knows something you don't, who has honed a skill more than you have. Rival your rival.

There is more jealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. But in both cases there must be pretensions, or there will be no jealousy.

An official statement from Liverpool raised the spectre of a future where 'a club's rival can bring about a significant ban for a top player without anything beyond an accusation'. But on hearing this, many Manchester United fans would have been asking for a definition of the word 'rival'.

Atletico is a rival who will never give up.

No matter how strong the rival, the just will always win.

People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.

A Christian is one who rejoices in the superiority of a rival.

If anything can rival Venice in its beauty, it must be its reflection at sunset in the Grand Canal.

I think Gilbert Burns is going to become my greatest rival.

Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind.

I'm young enough not to be a rival to Mr. Basescu.

I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?

In particular, I argue that in both evolution and creation we have rival religious responses to a crisis of faith-rival stories of origins, rival judgments about he meaning of human life, rival sets of moral dictates, and above all what theologians call rival eschatologies-pictures of the future and of what lies ahead for humankind.

Bear patiently with a rival.

With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.

Life is art's rival and vice versa.

There is no describing the feeling of being mistreated by a successful rival in front of the woman you worship.