(156 quotes found)
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
Oscar Wilde
“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
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.”
Confucius
“I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.”
Mae West
“Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength”
Eric Hoffer
“It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.”
Yogi Berra
