Envy Quotes · Page 21

People hate you for one of three reasons. They hate themselves, they want to be you, or they see you as a…

— Rashida Rowe

Envy Blowing out the other person's candle will not make your's shine better .

— Ritu Ghatourey

Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.

— Walter Savage Landor

Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

— Eckhart Tolle

In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.

— Christopher Lee

“Envy isn’t always green; it’s often black and white!" (On book reviews - from an article written in 2013)”

— Eric J. Gates

Haters need to remember that before they start talking shit and pointing fingers, three fingers are pointed back at them.

— Sammy Todd

The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.

— Ludwig von Mises

“Envy: Instead of focusing on your own goals, your goal becomes throwing off the rails other people’s goals and at the end…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

When you make it a strong habit not to take anything personally, you avoid many upsets in your life. Your anger, jealousy,…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy us for two things: one is the receiving of Holy Communion, and…

— Anonymous

I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the…

— Woody Allen

It is my greatest wish to enable our people to live with nothing to envy at the earliest possible date, and it…

— Kim Jong Il

So there I was, with the two hottest girls on campus, having lunch. I was "the man", the envy of every other…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I actually envy actors who have a persona: 'This is the way I am. This is the part I play.' And do…

— John C. Reilly

I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who do not write for money.…

— Anonymous

What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

“It's easy to complain about your life - how tough it is, how unfair it is, how stressful it is, how everyone…

— Kevin Hart - I Can't Make This Up

If you walk on sunlight, bathe in moonlight, breathe in a golden air and exhale a Midas' touch; mark my words, those…

— Anonymous

“Though I have said that I envy the normal man to the point of exasperation, yet I would not care to be…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is…

— Ray Bradbury

“The ultimate goal of the arriviste’s aspirations is not to acquire a thing of value, but to be more highly esteemed than…

— Max Scheler

We all want to be stars. The idea of being revered and envied must be encoded somewhere deep in our DNA. So…

— Tonya Hurley

But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.

— Joseph Priestley

That which belongs to others pleases us most, while that which belongs to us is most valued by others.

— Vikrant Parsai

The biggest obstacle to our happiness is under valuing what we have, and over valuing what others have.

— Anonymous

A beautiful woman peers out her window, as full of envy as the harridan who peers up at her from the street.

— Mason Cooley

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

— Joe Orton

That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.

— Kurt Vonnegut

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

— Emile M. Cioran

I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it.

— John Lanchester

I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.

— Thomas Browne

Friends talk, friends envy, friends hate, and at the same time friends wish they were to be you.

— Adaeze Agbai

I have friends who write all the time, and I envy them terribly.

— Michael McDonald

When I see you my heart melts but then I see you with her and my heart hardens into stone...

— Zatese Banks

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

— Honore de Balzac

We are the envy of Europe and in a few years time we are going to be one of the top countries…

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

If you have a wealth of satisfaction, I have the right to envy you because you are real rich.

— Mak_786