Explore a collection of the most beloved and motivational quotes and sayings about Contest. Share these powerful messages with your loved ones on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or on your personal blog, and inspire the world with their wisdom. We've compiled the Top 100 Contest Quotes and Sayings from 98 influential authors, including Bikram Choudhury,Michael Winter,Katharine Hepburn,Richard M. Nixon,Anna Paquin, for you to enjoy and share.

Yoga competition is an old Indian tradition. By Bikram Choudhury Indian Yoga Tradition Competition

You can't go wrong with major life and death stories when it comes to a competition, so I thought I'd have a go at writing one. By Michael Winter Competition Wrong Major Life Death

I can't say I believe in prizes. I was a whiz in the three-legged race - that's something you CAN win. By Katharine Hepburn Prizes Race Win Whiz Threelegged

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody. By Richard M. Nixon Image Establish Winner Beat

I like a challenge. By Anna Paquin Challenge

It was a hole in one contest and I had a three. By Abe Lemons Hole Contest

Competition is enjoyable only when it is a means to perfect one's skills; when it becomes an end in itself, it ceases to be fun. By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Competition Skills Fun Enjoyable Perfect

Competition is for the competent. By Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Competition Competent

The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition. By Gerald Early Miss America Culture Ritual Vulgarity

You must do your damdest and win. By George S. Patton Win Damdest

The only person you should compete with is you. By Debasish Mridha Person Compete

Competitions are for horses, not artists. By Bela Bartok Competitions Horses Artists

I am a Body-for-LIFE Challenge 2000 Winner. "Winners finish and finishers win." By Robert Cheeke Challenge Winner Winners Win Finish

Sometimes ... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares? By Robert Genn Contests Competitions Comparison Thrive Cares

This is essentially a people's contest ... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders - to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all - to afford all, an unfettered start and a fair chance, in the race of life. By Abraham Lincoln Contest Essentially People Men Shoulders

But what kind of race is it, when the racers never let go of each other's hands, and the winner pulls the loser laughing over the finish line? By Orson Scott Card Hands Line Kind Race Racers

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate. By Eminem Contest Mate Conquest

I;m not going to compete with you. I'm better than you are at what I do. And you're better than I am at what you do. By Stieg Larsson Compete

I have a practice of really not talking about the competition. I'm from the old school. By Rush Limbaugh Competition Practice Talking School

I love to compete. That's the essence of who I am. By Tiger Woods Compete Love Essence

Life is always a competition. By James Marquess Life Competition

The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur. By Tracy Austin Amateur Prize Money Place

I'm not out here to win a beauty contest. By Kirk Gibson Contest Win Beauty

The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena. By Jefferson Davis Ended Contest Strife Arena Entered

I love a challenge. By Blake Lively Challenge Love

Sloane got strangely competitive when there were stuffed-animal prizes involved). By Morgan Matson Sloane Involved Strangely Competitive Stuffedanimal

Everyone likes a bit of competition. By Jamie Dornan Competition Bit

Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both. By William Cowper Involves Great Combatants Truth Contest

I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me ... By Abraham Lincoln Congress Successful Die Conquered Expires

What happened to the winner" Adina asked."She tripped.""And the first runner-up?"Miss Michigan cracked her knuckles. "She tripped, too. By Libba Bray Adina Miss Michigan Winner Asked

Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner. By H. Jackson Brown Jr. Grind Hanging Winner Longer Competition

I'm a big competitor. By Kevin Durant Competitor Big

Global competition is about winners and losers. By David Korten Global Losers Competition Winners

Competition reveals the competent. By Jeffrey Fry Competition Competent Reveals

You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy. By Shaun White Competition Thing Game Equation Happy

Miss Universe Contest Protest Haiku Fundamentalists protest Miss Universe contest.Go home, beat their wives. By Beryl Dov Universe Miss Protest Contest Haiku

Kids win this'n'that every day. Thousands of them. One out of a hundred fights professionally. One out of a thousand's worth watchin', one out of a million's worth coffee and doughnuts. By Abraham Polonsky Kids Win Day Worth Professionally

I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality. By Phyllis Diller Beauty Contest Congeniality Miss Hit

How would you compete against yourself? By Vinod Khosla Compete

I think the correct term for this was 'pissing contest', and though I was flattered, I didn't have time for it. By Kim Harrington Pissing Contest Flattered Correct Term

Be the competition you wish to see in the world. By Michael P. Naughton World Competition

I don't enter, I'm entered. It's up to someone else. It's up to them. By Albert Finney Enter Entered

Life is never a competition. By Lailah Gifty Akita Life Competition

In case you're wondering why Guy Fieri is here, he won a contest. By Mario Batali Guy Fieri Contest Case Wondering

I'm a prideful person when it comes to competition. By Ray Lewis Competition Prideful Person

I believe in competition. By Craig Benson Competition

I'm past competing in pissing contests. My jet stream is now more of a trickle. The only contest I'd win is the number of trips to the bathroom it takes to purge a 32oz soda. By Brian Maclearn Past Competing Pissing Soda Trickle

I'm about to enter a national ass-kicking contest. With no legs. And a massive ass. By Julia Louis-Dreyfus Contest Enter National Asskicking Legs

Life is not a competition. By Lailah Gifty Akita Life Competition

I really don't feel like I'm in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and grow. Get better all the time with these filmmaking tools. I don't expect perfection from myself. Just progress. By Angela Bettis Contest Feel Kind Grow Tools

Everybody has won, and all must have prizes. By Lewis Carroll Won Prizes

Take a risk, take a prize. By Carrie Fisher Risk Prize

WE WIN FABULOUS PRIZES By Rick Riordan Prizes Win Fabulous

I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I created the Queen of the Universe pageant, which is charity-based, to benefit UNESCO. For me, the most important thing is that contestants have a charity-based platform or charity ambition. By Joyce Giraud Girl Nerdy Voice Pageant Typical

I won the only duel I ever lost. By Patrick Rothfuss Lost Won Duel

Competition is about passion for perfection, and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest. By Mariah Nelson Passion Competition Perfection Quest People

I am not in competition with my peers; I am in competition with myself. By Don Dokken Competition Peers

Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest? By Lily Tomlin Universe Miss Contest Entire Intelligent

One of the golden rules of success is to treat everything like a competition. By Abdulazeez Henry Musa Competition Golden Rules Success Treat

I love the challenge. By Nancy Lopez Challenge Love

Winners choose to make the smartest sacrifice. By Kevin Abdulrahman Winners Sacrifice Choose Make Smartest

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin. By Roger Bannister English Run Margin Playing Rugby

Give me prize, save your praise. By Toba Beta Give Prize Save Praise

It was a competition in agony. Like rich women in posh restaurants ordering ever-smaller salads. By Zadie Smith Agony Competition Salads Rich Women

Competition is all in numbers; it's a numbers game, but I looked at it like it's a passion, and it's art. By Will Champlin Numbers Competition Game Passion Art

I won a dancing contest to get into wrestling. That involved fans voting. By Stacy Keibler Wrestling Won Dancing Contest Voting

A good competition for comedians would be where a comedian has a conversation and is then quizzed on what the other person says. By Dana Gould Good Competition Conversation Quizzed Person

For the loser now Will be later to win By Bob Dylan Win Loser

Look, I am very competitive. By Tony Blair Competitive

At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won. By Andre Boucourechliev Liszt Competition Block End Played

Life is not a test or a competition. We only compete with ourselves. By Chloe Thurlow Life Competition Test Compete

Take the competition seriously, but not yourself. By Richard Branson Competition

Anybody can win - unless there happens to be a second entry. By George Ade Win Entry

I am so not a pageant girl, but I signed up for the Miss Junior Florida contest because I thought it would be good experience. By Amanda Latona Miss Junior Florida Girl Experience

What I like best is the competition itself. By Elena Piskun Competition

A chess tournament disguised as a circus. By John Connally Circus Chess Tournament Disguised

From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition. By Scott Hamilton October March Competition Fall Lost

Pageants are already ridiculous and sad, I think. By Casey Wilson Pageants Sad Ridiculous

I have entered the New Yorker's Cartoon Caption Contest almost weekly virtually since it began and have never even been a finalist. I have done more writing for free for the New Yorker in the last five years than for anybody in the previous 40 years. It's not that I think my cartoon captions are better than anyone else's, although some weeks, understandably, I do. It's that just once I want to see one of my damn captions in the magazine that publishes the best cartoons in the world." - Roger Ebert (By the way, in 2011 Ebert finally won, after 107 tries.) By Bob Mankoff Yorker Contest Finalist Cartoon Captions

The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood? By Thomas Jefferson Contest Blood Liberty Earth Depending

Life is not a competition, it's a game. There are no winners or losers. We all end up dead. Thirdly, By Matthew Kimberley Life Competition Game Thirdly Losers

Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves. By Al Oerter Competition Form Test Medals Winner

I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions. By Oksana Baiul Exhibitions Compete Good Feeling Competitions

Challenge serves beautifully to introduce you to your best - and most brilliant - self. By Robin Sharma Challenge Brilliant Serves Beautifully Introduce

Ideally, Competition should be a wonderful vicious circle of being inspired and inspiring others to achieve excellence and being the best version of themselves. By Tina Sequeira Ideally Competition Wonderful Vicious Circle

Winners use words that say 'must' and 'will'. By Jordan Belfort Winners Words

Be the one you're competing against By Thabiso Monkoe Competing

The winner is just the loser who never gave up! By Mika. Winner Loser Gave

The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned. By Plato Crowned True Runner Finish Receives

One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy. By Bobby Flay Pursuit Trivial Dessert Ambitious Game

Winners are convinced they will finish first. The others hope to finish first. By Lanny Bassham Winners Finish Convinced Hope

Kids should be encouraged to compete. By Twyla Tharp Kids Compete Encouraged

The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition By W.chan Kim Beat Competition Stop

The winner gives up his chance to be a good sport. By Mason Cooley Sport Winner Chance Good

You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot. By Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Shot Outcome Competition Ready Accept

Having lost the training and rites that prepare a girl for becoming truly queenly, a mature woman, we have instead beauty-queen contests for five-year-olds. By Bill Plotkin Queenly Woman Lost Training Rites

To me, everything's competition. By Mickey Rourke Competition

The best way to compete is to get defeat. By Santosh Kalwar Defeat Compete

Competition is a sin. By John D. Rockefeller Competition Sin

You must practice the discipline of a champion before you win the actual contest. The appointment and opportunity must then come to confirm what you have already become. By Archibald Marwizi Contest Practice Discipline Champion Win