Defeat Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

— Ouida

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

— Honore de Balzac

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

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

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

— Ambrose Bierce

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

— Henry Fielding

Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.

— Willard Gaylin

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

— Alexander Pope

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

— Alexander Pope

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.

— Anonymous

I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair, ...

— Ian Mcewan

She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal…

— Anonymous