My conscience is my crown,Contented thoughts my rest;My heart is happy in itself,My bliss is in my breast.Enough I reckon wealth;A mean… — Robert Southwell Copy Share Image
Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
The cheap but simple human emotion of envy is the driving force of all socialism, of all anti-capitalist philosophy. It is the… — Andrew Joseph Galambos Copy Share Image
Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
“Someone's great blessing has sprung from a pain that you may not be able to endure. So, envy not the blessings they… — J.S. Wolfe Copy Share Image
If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
“Talent breeds resentment; brilliance attracts envy. Lesser souls seek comfort in bringing down those who are admitted into the company of gods.… — Eva Stachniak Copy Share Image
Under the influence of collectivist ideologies, many politicians and journalists are ever eager to strike at successful entrepreneurs who earn much more… — Hans F. Sennholz 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
Short-term performance envy causes many of the shortcomings that lock most investors into a perpetual cycle of underachievement. Watch your competitors not… — Seth Klarman 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
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
Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people,… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
I don't really understand what a dictator is, but on the other hand I sometimes, in a nice way, envy myself," he… — Alexander Lukashenko Copy Share Image
RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud, and softens the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When the enemies' land force is once conquered and expelled from the continent, our Marine will rise as if by enchantment and… — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Blessed loves! how happy they have made us on the earth; what will they be when they have deepened through ages, with… — Randolph Sinks Foster Copy Share Image
No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
“Into the wind we vary, Our hearts free of youth, Mold me into envy, If I can’t have your muse; Under toe,… — Adrianna Stepiano Copy Share Image
“Travel always excited her--the strong and unfamiliar smells, the movement, the anxiety of arrival and departure times, she shouting of conductors, the… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“If you could know how happy I am, as Jesus' little spouse. No one…could I envy, because I am enjoying my complete… — Brian Kolodiejchuk Copy Share Image
“Though every city shall he hunt her down, Until he shall driven her back to Hell, There from whence envy first did… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
You will find that women who are pregnant often don't want to be and women who aren't desperately envy those who are.… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“Envy is awful. Unlike jealousy, which comes from the threat of losing what you cherish, envy is a dark desire for things… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
My wife Helen is Cornish and both sides of her family are Cornish going back at least a dozen generations. And I… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
“Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices I had decided upon, there is always left a trace of envy for… — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr," remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. "It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
