Emulation quotes
22 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition."
"An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation."
"Great masters merit emulation, not worship."
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"Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students."
"Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice."
"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."
"A writer is a reader moved to emulation."
"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."
"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."
