Emulation Quotes

Biomimicry is … the conscious emulation of life’s genius.

When emulation leads us to strive for self-elevation by merit alone, and not by belittling another, then it is one of the grandest possible incentives to action.

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.

Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.

Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification.

An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.

A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.

Great masters merit emulation, not worship.

Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to himself.

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions;
envy is only moved to malice.

If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.

True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.

When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that you may be fired with emulation; but when you feel dissatisfied with your circumstances, look down on those beneath you, that you may learn contentment.

More lives are influenced by emulation than exhortation.

A writer is a reader moved to emulation.

I think what happens in the world, and I think it's part human nature and part programming, is we become an emulation of what we see. We become clones of each other.

Nothing is so contagious as example;
never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like.
We imitate good actions through emulation,
and had ones through a malignity in our nature,
which shame conceals,
and example sets at liberty.