“If you choose to be fearless, then be fearlessly authentic not an imitation of someone you envy.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“emulation is a sincere form of flattery, but individuality is the only form of immortality.” — Corey Taylor 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
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of… — Christopher Hitchens 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
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
Tremendous indeed is the occult influence of sex-love upon the evolution of organic life. Love and glory, fidelity, emulation, resolution, beauty, strength,… — Arthur Desmond Copy Share Image
With these shreds They vented their complainings, which being answered And a petition granted them, a strange one, To break the heart… — William Shakespeare 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
News at Work is a vivid, inside look at the collision of print journalism and electronic media. Based on close access to… — Walter W. Powell 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
A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general… — John Adams Copy Share Image
As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are… — Thomas S. Monson 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
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
As an advocate of birth control I wish to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“Their regard may be mutually useful, since much is to be expected from emulation where nothing is to be feared from envy.… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
