Emulation famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.
-- Henry Fuseli -
True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
-- Hosea Ballou -
My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole man. ... Where are the life-size-or even pint-size-Benjamin Franklins of today?
-- Isidor Isaac Rabi -
Biomimicry is … the conscious emulation of life’s genius.
-- Janine Benyus -
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 -
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 motives proper.
-- Thorstein Veblen -
A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.
-- William Maxwell