Top 68 Quotes About Emulation
#1. Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
Alexander Pope
#2. A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
Saul Bellow
#3. For it is disheartening to inspire in a man the desire, and to take away from him the hope, of emulation.
Seneca.
#4. Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.
Honore De Balzac
#5. The most effective way of learning is by observation and emulation.
Debasish Mridha
#6. Here will I stand till Caesar pass along,
And as a suitor will I give him this.
My heart laments the virtue cannot live
Out of the teeth of emulation.
If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayest live;
If not, the fates with traitors do contrive.
William Shakespeare
#7. Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous. As it can only be preserved among estimable persons, it forces us to resemble them. You find in friendship the surety of good counsel, the emulation of good example, sympathy in our griefs, succor in our distress.
Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles
#8. 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.
Abigail Adams
#9. 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
#10. And behind it all I saw the ineffable malignity of primordial necromancy, black and amorphous, and fumbling greedily after me in the darkness to choke out the spirit that had dared to mock it by emulation.
H.P. Lovecraft
#11. To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion? ... There is nobody - here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.
Virginia Woolf
#12. 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
#13. An emulation operating at a speed of ten thousand times that of a biological brain would be able to read a book in a few seconds and write a PhD thesis in an afternoon.
Nick Bostrom
#14. Great masters merit emulation, not worship.
Alan Cohen
#15. Therefore, we propose a rediscovery of Christology that includes a preoccupation with the example and teaching of Jesus for the purposes of emulation by his followers.
Michael Frost
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Envy is ashamed of itself. If it weren't hanging back, it would go all the way to emulation and love.
James Richardson
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.
Samuel Johnson
#22. 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).
Paulo Freire
#23. When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.
Horace Mann
#24. Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#25. Saul Bellow once said, 'A writer is a reader who has moved to emulation' - which I think is true. I just started writing and made that jump from reader to writer and learned how hard it was, but also how much fun it was - losing myself in these imaginary worlds.
Stewart O'Nan
#26. With these shreds They vented their complainings, which being answered And a petition granted them, a strange one, To break the heart of generosity, And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon, Shouting their emulation.
William Shakespeare
#27. 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
#28. As for the system of the Commune, which makes it impossible for a man to rise or fall, it is merely the old caste system revived; if it could be put into force, all industry would be disheartened, emulation would cease, and mankind would go to sleep.
William Winwood Reade
#29. Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
Honore De Balzac
#30. According to Aristotle, envy is pain for the presence of good things in others, whereas emulation is pain for their absence in us. This is a subtle but critical difference. Unlike envy, which is self-defeating, emulation is a good thing because it makes us take steps towards securing good things.
Neel Burton
#31. Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Samuel Johnson
#32. Many methods have been proposed by the emulation community in order to make the old games graphics be better displayed on modern video devices. These methods were created
Anonymous
#34. Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
Henry Fielding
#35. 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
#36. Praise begets emulation,
a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.
Horace Mann
#37. 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.
Keith Fullerton Whitman
#38. Experiments in digitizing and running neural wetware under emulation are well established; some radical libertarians claim that, as the technology matures, death with its draconian curtailment of property and voting rights will become the biggest civil rights issue of all.
Charles Stross
#40. Imitation is about copying. Emulation is when imitation goes one step further, breaking through into your own thing.
Austin Kleon
#41. 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.
Samuel Johnson
#42. Emulation is a sincere form of flattery, but individuality is the only form of immortality.
Corey Taylor
#43. The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
Jimmy Carter
#44. Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence
Fela Durotoye
#45. This was how he came to trust in the power of emulation; he believed that people could be conditioned to do the right thing by observing good leaders.
Nancy Isenberg
#46. Biomimicry is ... the conscious emulation of life's genius.
Janine Benyus
#47. 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
#48. 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.
Hannah More
#49. True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
Hosea Ballou
#50. Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.
Ouida
#51. Love is listening, Sometimes overcoming obstacles,
as well as being victorious when faced with emulation.
Monica Chrisandtras Hines
#53. 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
#54. Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.
Henry Fuseli
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. Everything that lifts people above their fellows arouses both emulation and jealousy.
Stacy Schiff
#59. My heart laments that virtue cannot live
Out of the teeth of emulation.
William Shakespeare
#60. More lives are influenced by emulation than exhortation.
Johnny Hunt
#61. 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
#62. Emulation without revelation is rarely profitable.
Kirby Clements
#63. ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
Ambrose Bierce
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#68. 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.
Shannon L. Alder
