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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“And so when you see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see one whose name is famous in… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“He made a blushing cital of himself, And chid his truant youth with such a grace As if he mastered there a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but "older," if… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or… — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
...but when The Spirit speaks,—or beauty from the sky Descends into my being,—when I hear The storm-hymns of the mighty ocean roll,… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I shake my head in unfortunate assent...in any life age and stage to this necessary truth one must be able to maintain… — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
As an amateur, you may envy the professional, wishing you could combine business with pleasure into a kind of full-time hobby, using… — Michael Langford 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
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
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
To worry about differences in earned incomes simply because some persons earn more than other persons is to wallow in envy. And… — Donald J. Boudreaux Copy Share Image
Man's envy is at its most intense where all are almost equal; his calls for redistribution are loudest when there is virtually… — Helmut Schoeck 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
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
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
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
Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
And okay, fine. If you have to kiss her, you have to kiss her. And believe me, I do not envy you.… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Looking at what others have that I don't, can make me ungrateful, but looking at what I have that they don't, should… — Mufti Ismail Menk Copy Share Image
My brother, do men grieve over the fight of cats and dogs? So the jealousy, envy, and elbowing of common men should… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Lucian's father had warned him to fear idle men. Without the pride gained from a good day's work, they were left to… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
There are only two reasons why people gossip about you; it's either you are better than them or they like you but… — Tshepo Koos Maluleke Copy Share Image
What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends,… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“Even if the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, keep to your own side; it's where you belong.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“It was amazing to see the actual moment when Denny the boy became Denny the man. I admit that I had a… — Karen Harrington Copy Share Image
