Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“It’s OK to be envious – but only of the person you aspire to become.” — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
When you make your mark in the world, watch out for the envious with erasers. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. — Antisthenes Copy Share Image
If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an… — William Petty Copy Share Image
I was a kid when the Tamagotchi craze hit, and I was always envious of my friends and cousins who got to… — Sarah Jeong Copy Share Image
...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
Anytime you feel jealous or envious, you reject your uniqueness. It's a criticism of God's plan for you. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It is the habit of the envious man to absolve himself of public wrongs with his own personal grievances.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“The way you think about yourself determines your reality. You are not being hurt by the way people think about you. Many… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if… — Horace Copy Share Image
Because I am a horrible flincher, contact lenses are not an option. I'm always envious of contact-wearers. There are endless reasons to… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Certainly people are always very envious of me. When I join a new theater company, the other actors look down the program,… — Caroline Blakiston Copy Share Image
I look at so many people's feeds like, 'God, your life is so cool. Like, I want to do that! Why don't… — Carly Chaikin Copy Share Image
No author, I think, is deserving of much censure for vanity if, taking down one of his ten-year-old books, he exclaims: "Great… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Once she was standing by her locker and her puka shells broke and scattered and she made a joke about it but… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
For my omniscience paid I toll In infinite remorse of soul. All sin was of my sinning, all Atoning mine, and mine… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“I really believe that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000… — Michael Collins Copy Share Image
Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Here's a practice for dealing with envy...each time you find yourself envious of someone...ask yourself, "What is there that I am noticing… — M. J. Ryan Copy Share Image
