Emulation Quotes

32 quotes by 27 authors

Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. — Alexander Pope
Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of… — Walter J. Phillips
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. — Samuel Johnson
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… — Joseph Lancaster
A writer is a reader moved to emulation. — Saul Bellow
A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will… — Abigail Adams
The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spiritâ€”for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and… — John Steinbeck
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 the soldier's which… — William Shakespeare
A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation. — William Maxwell
To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?â€¦There is nobodyâ€”here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition… — Virginia Woolf
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… — Paulo Freire
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… — Tullian Tchividjian

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