Men will imitate and admire his unmoved firmness, his inflexible conscience for the right; and yet his gentleness, as tender as a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The value of science to a republican people, the security it gives to liberty by enlightening the minds of its citizens, the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
I think what happens in the world, and I think it's part human nature and part programming, is we become an emulation… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
When emulation leads us to strive for self-elevation by merit alone, and not by belittling another, then it is one of the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“If you choose to be fearless, then be fearlessly authentic not an imitation of someone you envy.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Emulation has been termed a spur to virtue, and assumes to be a spur of gold. But it is a spur composed… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
I see someone play, or I listen to a record, and I think, "How did they make that sound?' It's not emulation;… — Keith Fullerton Whitman Copy Share Image
When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Like all Xhosa children, I acquired knowledge mainly through observation. We were meant to learn through imitation and emulation, not through questions.… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Imitate until you emulate; match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness. — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
