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Hate not your enemies; love thy rivals, for this is the only way to convert them into your friends and your partners! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

He who is in love with himself has no rivals. — Benjamin Franklin

Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over all rival theories. — Richard Dawkins

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

I don't see any of my colleagues as rivals. I don't think our generation needs to do that. We are a chilled out lot, and we should all be happy. — Shahid Kapoor

Many today view love and doctrine as enemies, or at best as rivals. — Bobby Jamieson

In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself! — Erica Jong

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

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

Keep your friends close - and your rivals even closer. — Nelson Mandela

Lovers have an ineffable instinct which detects the presence of rivals. — Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling And Bulwer

The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Self-righteous and entitled but they swearin' on the bible that they love you when really they no different from your rivals. — Nicki Minaj

Paris Hilton isn't my rival. I met her one or two times and she's making out there's this big rivalry between us and there so isn't. — Mischa Barton

If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful. — Michael Porter

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop — Jose Marti

Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival. — Michel De Montaigne

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln BY DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN — Daniel H. Pink

No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival. — Honore De Balzac

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Calm down Weston. It was just a window. I wasn't aiming for your head. - Samuel — Angela Richardson

For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart. — Morton Feldman

We can be competitive and aim to destroy our opponent or competition, but we can still respect our rivals and even be friends. — Ben Tolosa

The Evejah tells us: When a man's purse is empty, his rivals grow bolder. — Peter V. Brett

Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

Just because you're rivals doesn't mean you have to be enemies. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

To be teammates in Formula One actually means you are first rivals, not really mates. — Asif Kapadia

To be converted to faith in Jesus Christ is to return to the worship of the true God, and to dethrone all rivals to his authority. — Graham Kendrick

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage. — Novalis

I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides. — Ehud Barak

If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals — C.S. Lewis

One in three all friends are:
Brothers in distress,
equals facing rivals,
free men - facing death! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Congratulations to one of my favorite opponents and greatest rivals on returning to the WWE. The Rock is the BEST promo man of all time ... — Chris Jericho

Take some time to sit down and figure out how your big rival is promoting their brand and plan something smarter and more creative for yours! — Barbara Corcoran

Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary. — Martin Luther King Jr.

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise. — Virgil Thomson

It was lovely to receive the affection from some of the supporters of our biggest rival, ... It doesn't happen to you very often in your career. — Ronaldinho

Concentrate ... for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul. — Orison Swett Marden

Success in business means doing things better than rivals, not just doing things well. — Phil Rosenzweig

Ambition is like love, impatient of both delays and rivals — Gautama Buddha

He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored. — John Irving

Products with higher user engagement have the potential to grow faster than their rivals. — Nir Eyal

It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many. — Edmund Burke

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place. — Criss Jami

Women do not disapprove their rivals; they hate them. — James Parton

The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville. — Kristi Yamaguchi

What poet would not grieve to see
His brother write as well as he?
But rather than they should excel,
He'd wish his rivals all in Hell. — Jonathan Swift

IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors. — Ambrose Bierce

Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives. — Richard Dawkins

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

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

Teachers are the worst. Just shameless about kicking off their rivals. — Anne Robinson

Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers. — Robert Anton Wilson

People tease me about knowing somehow that Obama would put Clinton into the cabinet, and everybody would talk about a team of rivals. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Winners aren't perfect. They made fewer mistakes than their rivals. — Morton Blackwell

Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival. — Arthur Desmond

The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all. — John Mearsheimer

Modeling is a tough job, your co-workers are your rivals, it really puts a damper on your perspective of other girls. — Adriana Lima

The good is the greatest rival of the best. — Nellie L. McClung

The natural hostility of beasts is laid aside when flying from pursuers; so also when danger is impending the enmity of rivals is ended. — J. K. Bharavi

Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone. — Lance Armstrong

Advantage lies in a capacity to predict the future before your rivals can. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation. — William Wordsworth

Advanced rivals. Nor was it a satisfactory solution to keep the masses in — George Orwell

If Christ be your one and only love, if your heart has cast out all rivals, you will not long lack the comfort of His presence. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

That's the thing about exes - for eternity you feel like rivals in a kind of happiness contest, and losing would be the epitome of tragedy. — Daria Snadowsky

How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival! — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Women are jealous of cigars ... they regard them as a strong rival. — William Makepeace Thackeray

(N)ever apportion blame. How can there be opponents or rivals or even "others" when there is no "self" in the first place? — Elif Shafak

The love of science to rival the love of woman, in its depth and absorbing energy. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I thought how wise he was to lure his rival out into the woods, where every fight's fair. — Peter Geye

Curse you Kakarrot! — Akira Toriyama

Whatever you say, sweetheart." He sent her a wink, a devilish one, the same one he no doubt used to sear the panties off his dates. — Jessica Lemmon

I just like that dynamic in relationships in movies where they're kind of lovers as rivals, you know? — Marc Webb

Compete, but not out of envy.
Contest, but not out of hostility.
Treat your rivals with respect;
treat your allies with honor. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart? — Pablo Casals

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals — Benjamin Franklin

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

When it comes to girl bands, we're all rivals. — Jenny Frost

I believed it would succeed. It was Polish Solidarity and its victory that put an end to the old era when what mattered were borders and rival blocs. — Lech Walesa

Dada cannot live in New York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival. — Man Ray

Golden rule of life: never underestimate your rivals. — Sid Waddell

A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. — William E. Gladstone

This would most effectively open them to the answers they needed, seeing us as allies in their search and not as rivals. — David Leigh

[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals. — Edward O. Wilson

Life is art's rival and vice versa. — Wyndham Lewis

Of two heroes, he who esteems his rivals the most is the greatest. — Laurent Angliviel De La Beaumelle

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. — Gautama Buddha

In arms and science tis the same Our rival's hurts create our fame. — Matt Prior

In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time. — Emile M. Cioran

I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals. — Dawn Fraser

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

The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades. — Ian Bremmer

I was too young, then, to know that dead lovers are the toughest rivals. — Gregory David Roberts

The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste. — Valentino Rossi

One of my favorite retailers has a release process that rivals a NASA launch sequence. — Michael T. Nygard

There is no describing the feeling of being mistreated by a successful rival in front of the woman you worship. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan