Ambition Quote by Honore de Balzac

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

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

— Ouida

If you're opposites, you complement each other; you aren't jealous. Just annoyance and fighting, as opposed to rivalry.

— Matthew Friedberger

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Could rivalry be a productive system?

— Sara Genn

I actually do not really like rivalry, but this world full of it.

— Reny

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

Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.

— Anonymous

Rivals are not your enemies; for they are the people who tend to seek to surpass each other helping each others by trying their…

— Anonymous

Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.

— Louisa May Alcott

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

— Ambrose Bierce