Quotes about people achieving success through competition

Competition is something of great significance in human life. [India] Premchand: "The Devout Sujan"

The survival of all things depends on the competition of natural forces, and emotions themselves are living natural forces. [UK] Pope: "Treatise of Man"

Noble competition is the source of all excellence. [UK] Hume: "On the Rise and Progress of Art and Science"

Every day of life is spent in victory and defeat, and everything appears in the form of competition. Every day is a struggle to win the competition, or at least not lose to the other side. Therefore, if you slack off for one day, you will fall behind and fail. Life is so grim. [Japan] Osomatsu Blog: "The Autobiography of the Devil Osomatsu"

Like every other animal, the reason why humans have been able to progress to such a high level is undoubtedly through the struggle for survival caused by rapid proliferation. Completed; if human beings want to progress to higher places, I am afraid that they must continue to fight fiercely. Otherwise mankind will sink into laziness, and those with higher talents will have no greater success in the struggles of life than those with less talents. Therefore, although the natural rate of human increase can cause many obvious evils, there is no way to greatly reduce it. All men should take part in open competition; no law or custom should prevent the most talented from achieving the greatest success and raising the greatest number of offspring. [UK] Darwin: "The Descent of Man and Sexual Selection"

Don't compete with people who have nothing to lose. [Spain] Gracian: "The Art of Being in the World"

Competition is a trouble that a person wants to have what others have. [Greece] Zeno, quoted from "The Sayings and Actions of Famous Philosophers" by Laertius

The competition for life possesses all living things and maintains their activities. [Germany] Schopenhauer: "Two Fundamental Questions of Ethics"

Although many forms of competition give rise to strong objections, I think they play an essential role in promoting necessary efforts. plays a minor role and, in some areas, provides a relatively harmless outlet for impulses that might otherwise lead to war. [UK] Russell: "Authority and the Individual"

The development of economy and technology has greatly strengthened the competition for survival and seriously damaged the free development of individuals. However, the development of technology means that individuals must perform less and less labor to meet social needs, and planned division of labor has become an increasingly urgent need, and this division of labor will ensure individual material life. This security coupled with the free time and energy at the individual's disposal can be used to develop his personality. In this way society can be restored and healthy, and we can hope that future historians will explain the current symptoms of social ill health as infantile diseases of ambitious humanity, caused solely by the too rapid advancement of civilization. [Germany] Albert Einstein: "My World View"

No matter how big or small, no one is high or low, they all survive in competition. When there is no opposite, people will even create one to compete with it. [Japan] Osomatsu Blog: "The Autobiography of the Devil Osomatsu"

Competition and jealousy are mutually exclusive. The competitive spirit of wanting to be better than those who are better than oneself, not wanting to be bettered by people at the same level, and not wanting to lose to people who are lower than oneself are all closely related to jealousy. [Japan] Takeshi Takeshi: "The Psychology of Jealousy"

Being competitive is nothing but the desire we have for something. The reason is that we imagine that other people like me also have the same characteristics. The same desire. [Netherlands] Spinoza: "Ethics"

For a mean-minded person, he is the slave of jealousy; for a learned and temperamental person, jealousy turns into competitiveness . [UK] Pope: "On Mankind"

It is called feeling sad because a competitor succeeds in wealth, fame or other good things, and at the same time strives to improve oneself in an attempt to match or surpass the opponent. envy. [UK] Hobbes: "Leviathan"

Competitiveness, or to put it mildly, is the desire to be praised and respected, which is deeply rooted in human nature. Without this mental stimulus, human cooperation would be entirely impossible; and a man's desire to obtain the approval of his fellows must be one of the greatest restraints upon him in society. But in this complex emotion, constructive and destructive forces are closely intertwined. The desire to be praised and praised is originally a healthy motivation; but if you require others to admit that you are smarter, stronger, or more intelligent than your peers or classmates, it will easily lead to a self-centered attitude psychologically. It is harmful to both individuals and society. [Germany] Einstein: "Later Years"

I do not think that ordinary people can be happy without competition, because competition has always been, even from the beginning of mankind, a stimulus to most intense activities . We should therefore not seek to eliminate competition, but only to try to give it forms that are not too harmful. Primitive competition was a conflict that would kill another man, his wife, and children; modern competition in the form of war still takes this form.

But competition in the form of sports, literature, and art, as well as in constitutional politics, is rarely harmful and provides a perfectly adequate diversion for our various competitive instincts. The problem here is not that these forms of competition are evil, but that they occupy too little a role in the lives of ordinary men and women. [UK] Russell: "Authority and the Personality"

A gentleman has nothing to fight for. [China] Confucius: "The Analects of Confucius"

There is no progress without struggle. [USA] Douglas: "To Garrett Smith"

A husband cannot fight with him, so no one in the world can fight with him. The ancient saying that the song is complete is not true! It is true and complete.

[China] Lao Dan: "Tao Te Ching"