Quotes about Rivalry

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

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.

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.

Once said that his political adversary "dived down deeper into the sea of knowledge and came up drier than any other man he knew.

Those who strive are often watched by others who will take advantage of their defeat to benefit themselves.

Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

I have played my fair share of bad guys, or at least the nemesis.

The man you love to hate.

Every man's sword was against his fellow.

Every man's sword shall be against his brother.

Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.

His enemies shall lick the dust.