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Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice. -- Ouida
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. -- Henry Fielding
Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living. -- Henry Fuseli
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice. -- Honore de Balzac
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation. -- Jimmy Carter
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. -- Samuel Johnson
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous. He strives to excel, but it is by raising himself, not by depressing others. -- Jeremy Collier
I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest. -- Joseph Lancaster
ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity. -- Ambrose Bierce
Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation. -- Friedrich Schiller
Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy. -- Honore de Balzac
Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to himself. -- Ken Danby
I'm into emulation, not imitation. -- Chuck Inglish
Great masters merit emulation, not worship. -- Alan Cohen
An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation. -- William Shakespeare
Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students. -- Horace Mann
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. -- Alexander Pope
Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly. -- Samuel Johnson
When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect. -- Horace Mann
Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification. -- Sydney Thompson Dobell
There is a strange impulse in many to protect Bible characters and to use them as inspiration... as if sanctification happens as a result of emulation. -- Tullian Tchividjian
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. -- Samuel Johnson
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. -- Samuel Johnson
Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced. -- Joseph Hall
Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him. -- Thomas Hobbes
Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy. -- Quintilian
Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such. -- Anna Letitia Barbauld
Like all Xhosa children, I acquired knowledge mainly through observation. We were meant to learn through imitation and emulation, not through questions. When I first visited the homes of whites, I was often dumbfounded by the number and nature of questions that children asked of their parents-and their parents' unfailing willingness to answer them. In my household, questions were considered a nuisance; adults imparted information as they considered necessary. -- Nelson Mandela
A writer is a reader moved to emulation. -- Saul Bellow
More lives are influenced by emulation than exhortation. -- Johnny Hunt
Biomimicry is "¦ the conscious emulation of life's genius. -- Janine Benyus
A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation. -- William Maxwell
Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence -- Tara Fela-Durotoye
True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation. -- Hosea Ballou
Envy is ashamed of itself. If it weren't hanging back, it would go all the way to emulation and love. -- James Richardson
Leadership is an art expressed by the demonstration of characters worthy of immitation, emulation and inspiration. It is neither a title nor a postion. -- Israelmore Ayivor
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. -- Thorstein Veblen
As a nation, we will only become the shining light to the world with the emergence of more and more role models worthy of emulation by all -- Fela Durotoye
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. -- Thomas Jefferson
Tremendous indeed is the occult influence of sex-love upon the evolution of organic life. Love and glory, fidelity, emulation, resolution, beauty, strength, and courage are directly inspired by sex-passions. -- Arthur Desmond
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. -- June Jordan
My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole man. ... Where are the life-size-or even pint-size-Benjamin Franklins of today? -- Isidor Isaac Rabi
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. -- Alicia Keys
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. -- Christopher Hitchens

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