Emulation Quotes
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.
Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification.
Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.
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.
Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.
In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.
Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to himself.
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.
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.
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.
More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation. There is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one center.
I see someone play, or I listen to a record, and I think, "How did they make that sound?' It's not emulation; it's more building a vocabulary that can be called up at a moment's notice.
In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of envy can lead to emulation and ambition and have positive consequences.
True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
There really is no sense in pretending to be normal. Just be you because the moment you do, weirder things happen. Crazy comes back into fashion and every woman has to go out and find her some.
If you choose to be fearless, then be fearlessly authentic not an imitation of someone you envy.
Leadership is an art expressed by the demonstration of characters worthy of immitation, emulation and inspiration. It is neither a title nor a postion.
Is not the true respect and worship of God the exercising of our power in such a way that we are also respected?
Keep those that influence you for the better close and never give them a reason to keep you far away.