Quotes with imitate

  • Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
  • Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

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  • James Baldwin Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Cato the Elder Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Igor Stravinsky A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • William Arthur Ward Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Eric Hoffer However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Carrie Fisher I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Lionel Trilling Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Philip Massinger Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.
    Philip Massinger
    English dramatist (1583 - 1640)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Eric Hoffer It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • William Penn Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Woody Allen Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Yogi Berra That's his style of hitting . If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.
    Yogi Berra
    American baseball player (1925 - 2015)
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  • Jean Claude Killy The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
    Jean Claude Killy
     
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  • John Milton The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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