By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else! — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the system that has enabled greatness and made America the envy of the world. — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
I am the joy of those who love me, The sorrow of those who hate me! And the occupation of those who… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Disgust is often more deeply buried than envy and anger, but it compounds and intensifies the other negative emotions. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“One look into your beautiful eyes, and my self-loathing soul felt envy. I had become vulnerable that instant...helpless, wanting, hating, resenting, loathing...”… — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Newton found that a star, examined through a glass tarnished by smoke, was diminished into a speck of light. But no smoke… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
My own interest is the responsibility of people to be responsible for their own lives and, with their neighbors, for their public… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes… — Robert Sheaffer Copy Share Image
In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Rena noticed me watching it pass. 'You think they don't got problem?' Rena said. 'Everybody got problem. You got me, they got… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I had achieved so much success in my career and then had this spectacular fall from grace that left me unemployed and… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
One of my struggles is that I'm a glutton. There's always those very simple, long, old-ass things, but they're very real to… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
