Adapted Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

— Alexander Pope

“Their regard may be mutually useful, since much is to be expected from emulation where nothing is to be feared from envy. I”

— Fanny Burney

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.

— Samuel Johnson

As an advocate of birth control I wish to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,'…

— Margaret Sanger

Praise begets emulation,--a goodly seed to sow among youthful students.

— Horace Mann

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…

— Thorstein Veblen

An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.

— William Shakespeare

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

— Honore de Balzac

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

Emulation, even in brutes, is sensitively "nervous." See the tremor of the thoroughbred racer before he starts. The dray-horse does not tremble, but he…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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…

— Thomas Hobbes

No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models…

— Paulo Freire