The only person you should ever compete with is yourself. You can't hope for a fairer match.
And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater. - William Shakespeare
There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in his soul with outward beauty of form, corresponding and harmonizing with the former, because the same great pattern enters both. - Plato
I think a servant of the enemy would look fairer and feel fouler. -Frodo Baggins - J.R.R. Tolkien
I think a servant of the enemy would look fairer and feel fouler. - Frodo Baggins
Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. - Christopher Marlowe
He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven. - Oscar Wilde
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. - William Goodman