Emulation adds its spur. [ Lucan ]

Emulation lays up a grudge. [ Proverb ]

Emulation begets emulation. [ Proverb ]

There is emulation even in vice. [ Eugene Sue ]

Emulation and imitation are of twin birth. [ Charles Buxton ]

Keeps mankind sweet by action; without that
The world would be a filthy settled mud. [ Crown ]

It is no shame to follow the better precedent. [ Ben Jonson ]

They threw their caps
As they would hang them on the horns of the moon,
Shouting their emulation. [ William Shakespeare ]

An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation. [ William Shakespeare ]

Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition. [ Beaconsfield ]

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice. [ Ouida ]

Emulation is lively and generous, envy base and .malicious. [ Proverb ]

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

Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation. [ Schiller ]

Worth begets in base minds envy, but in brave souls emulation. [ Proverb ]

Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living. [ Fuseli ]

There is a long and wearisome step between admiration and imitation. [ Richter ]

Those fair ideas to my aid I'll call, and emulate my great original. [ Dryden ]

My heart laments that virtue cannot live out of the teeth of emulation. [ William Shakespeare ]

Praise begets emulation, - a goodly seed to sow among youthful students. [ Horace Mann ]

Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, is emulation in the learned or brave. [ Pope ]

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

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

Restraint of discipline, emulation, examples of virtue and of justice, form the education of the world. [ Burke ]

Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy. [ Balzac ]

How many languish in obscurity, who would become great if emulation and encouragement incited them to exertion! [ Fenelon ]

It is scarce possible at once to admire and excel an author, as water rises no higher than the reservoir it falls from. [ Bacon ]

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect. [ Horace Mann ]

Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification. [ Sydney Dobell ]

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exert herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes, that she may have another by a defeat. [ Colton ]

Does the man live who has not felt this spur to action, in a more or less generous spirit? Emulation lives so near to envy that it is sometimes difficult to establish the boundary-lines. [ Henry Giles ]

Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced. [ Bishop Hall ]

Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous. He strives to excel, but it is by raising himself, not by depressing others. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous; as it can only be preserved among esteemable persons, it forces us to resemble them; you find in friendship the surety of good counsel, the emulation of good example, sympathy in our griefs, and succor in our distress. [ Mme. de Lambert ]

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 to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him. [ Thomas Hobbes ]