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I'm into emulation, not imitation.
A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
Great masters merit emulation, not worship.
A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.
An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.
Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.
ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.
More lives are influenced by emulation than exhortation.
Biomimicry is … the conscious emulation of life’s genius.
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.
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.
Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.
True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to himself.
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.
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.
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.
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, propelled by fear, can be even more toxic than anger, because it involves the thought that other people enjoy the good things of life which the envier can't hope to attain through hard work and emulation.
The Dolphins' is my tribute to all those selfless mothers and women that I have ever come across, including my own mother, Indira. Some 75 per cent of mothers that I have seen are like that, all of them worthy of emulation.
It is of no consequence whether a man of genius have learned either art or science before twenty-five: all that is necessary, or even desirable, is that his powers should be unfolded, his emulation roused, and his habits conducted into a right channel.
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.
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.
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.
Unions, by and large, are democratic organizations with freely chosen leaders and policies determined by the membership. They concern themselves with individual dignity not only in their aims but in their method. We have no better example of what is worthy of emulation abroad than the workings of a good union.