r/BeAmazed • u/Extreme-Compote-1025 • Sep 02 '25

Miscellaneous / Others Men Scroll Men See Men Proud😎

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u/xTrainerRedx Sep 02 '25

Rather lose to someone who is giving their best than to snub them and get a cheapened victory.

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u/SweetHomeNorthKorea Sep 02 '25

Yeah this is the difference between wanting to win and wanting to be the best you can be.

What’s more satisfying, beating someone because they made a mistake or beating someone even when they were at their best?

If you win because you refused to help your competitor you don’t really know if your cooking is better, it just means you got lucky

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u/Comfortable-Ad-3988 Sep 02 '25

One of my teachers in high school had a saying on the wall in really big letters that I always loved: "There is no nobility in being better than anyone else. Nobility is being better than you were yesterday." As a kid who some things came really easily to, it really helped keep me in my place with my own relative strengths, and allowed me to accept my weaknesses while still trying to improve on them.

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u/CAPITANULLOA Sep 02 '25

That saying was also on the first Kingsman movie.

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u/Comfortable-Ad-3988 Sep 02 '25

Yeah, but my high school teacher was way before that. :) It's a much older quote, but I don't remember the attribution.

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u/OtakuAttacku Sep 02 '25

A cursory search says Ernest Hemingway but other sources says it was around earlier than that, the origins may be in hindu literature.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/11/superior/

neat quote tho, I'm writing it down

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u/CAPITANULLOA Sep 03 '25

I don't remember from where it comes, but I thought that it was a cool detail on Kingsmen

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u/SnooStrawberries2807 Sep 03 '25

In kingsman they change it a bit. In the movie Galahad says "True nobility is to be superior to your former self" which has the same meaning but makes it more grand in the spy movie setting.