Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Our infrastructure in America, once the envy of the world, is losing its battle against time, growth, weather, and wear. — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter. — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
“We simply cannot put a man into a crucible to see if he will give off unmistakable green fumes of envy.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
If you want to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fear. — Glenn Clark Copy Share Image
He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What a lovely place this world would be if only people would feel affection for everyone else, and all the ugliness of… — Sayo Masuda Copy Share Image
Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“Don't envy those who seems having everything, they don't really have everything. They have what they want and live the life they… — Ann Marie Aguilar Copy Share Image
“Beware of those who steer you away from your heart’s true happiness. It would make them happy to see you steer yourself… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves.… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
The idea that the object of constitutions is not to confirm the predominance of any interest, but to prevent it; to preserve… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Envy, my children, follows pride; whoever is envious is proud. See, envy comes to us from Hell; the devils having sinned through… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
Where is your heart? Is your heart with God? Is it with your own ego or your lust? Is it with your… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
I will tell you a little secret about archaeologists, dear Reader. They all pretend t be very high-minded. They claim that their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I cannot overstate how much a generous spirit contributes to good luck. Look at the luckiest people around you, the ones you… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Be wary of friends—they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical.… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“An envy of that one consummate part Swept me, who mock. Whether I laugh or weep, Some inner silences are at my… — Leonie Adams Copy Share Image
The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy. — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If envy were tangible and had a shape it would be the shape of a boomerang. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy. — Giannina Braschi Copy Share Image
Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Hating on me? Girl, Im mad friendly. Like Fat Joe said, Jealous ones still envy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image