Envy Quotes

Work hard to discover your gift and you will never envy or hate another human being who is manifesting theirs.

Let’s face it: There are people who won’t be happy when you get too blessed. There are people who feel threatened by your success. There are people who, out of envy, will just not like you anymore.

No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.

Don't envy the harvest of the rich. Envy their planting.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.

Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.

Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

It is sufficient for you that the one who envies you is distressed at the time of your joy.

Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.

Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish

If the Angels could envy, they would envy us for Holy Communion.

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.

Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Don't envy those who make their wealth in an ungodly way. The wicked SEEM to prosper now and live without a care but they will spend eternity in terror and despair.

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

The world says: "You have needs - satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.

If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.

We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.

Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with a real sense of being mutually indispensable, with sudden peaks of solidarity in spite of envy, jealousy and the whole inevitable cohort of bad feelings.

No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.

As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our own company, a quality that extroverts often envy. We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves.

We have more experience of movement and more capacity for it than of feeling and thought... We know much more about movement than we do about anger, love, envy or even thought. It is relatively easy to learn to recognize the quality of movement than the quality of other factors.

How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess,
to deny what we do not understand,
and to insult what we envy!

I do not envy the owners of very large gardens. The garden should fit its owner or his or her tastes, just as one's clothes do; it should be neither too large nor too small, but just comfortable.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

A full scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes...could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well as untold numbers elsewhere. And the survivors-as Chairman Khrushchev warned the Communist Chinese, `the survivors would envy the dead.' For they would inherit a world so devastated by explosions and poison and fire that today we cannot conceive of its horrors.

There is no tradition more worth of envy, no institution worthy of such loyalty, as the University of Georgia.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance!

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.

Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.

I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot of contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not?