For all the unkind things said about envy, it would only be fair to acknowledge that not all envy is destructive. If… — Sidney Greenberg Copy Share Image
I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle;… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Because of this basin of repentance and knowledge of God, which has been ordained for the transgression of God's people, as Isaiah… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
Drop jealousy and envy, for they make you ugly. Be loving, be accepting, and most of all... be happy just the way… — Anonymous 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
After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Don’t ever allow your haters to plant a seed of hate in you; your haters only exhibit the fruits of hatred in… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt. — Lucretius 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
Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Righteousness is a fuel that, when it has some pitch in it of ambitious rivalry and the damper's left open to envy's… — Ardyth Kennelly Copy Share Image
From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient. From their endless rough-housing with each other,… — Adele Faber Copy Share Image
“I thought of what pride would look like, a jowly old guy in a smoking jacket. Vanity was a tall, beautiful woman… — Holly Cupala Copy Share Image
Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
It was time to expect more of myself. Yet as I thought about happiness, I kept running up against paradoxes. I wanted… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
One of the deadliest poisons a person can consume in their lifetime is the poison of jealousy. Jealousy opens flood gate of… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
