Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Great masters merit emulation, not worship.
But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first book which they read, some early conversation which they heard, or some accident which excited ardour and emulation.
A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.
ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
Biomimicry is … the conscious emulation of life’s genius.
Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.
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. In an industrial community this propensity for emulation expresses itself in pecuniary emulation; and this, so far as regards the Western civilized communities of the present, is virtually equivalent to saying that it expresses itself in some form of conspicuous waste.
True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor 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.
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.
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.
No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models from among the oppressors. The oppressed must be their own example in the struggle for their redemption (Freire, 1970, p. 54).
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
A people fired. . . with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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.
An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.
