Envy Quotes · Page 25

If you are going to judge a book by its cover, don't be disappointed if the story tells a different tale.

— Kos

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

— Samuel Johnson

“Run along now while I show off my new acquisition. No one below has feathers. I’ll be the envy of hell.”

— Susan Ee

I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice

— Anonymous

Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

— Isaac Asimov

Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate.

— Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.

— Anonymous

It is sufficient for you that the one who envies you is distressed at the time of your joy.

— Uthman ibn Affan

“If you can't honestly support and be happy for others' success, you will block your own blessings because eventually envy and bitterness…

— Germany Kent

Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but…

— Bertrand Russell

People will talk about you when they envy you and the life you lead. Let them. You affected their life. Dont let…

— Anonymous

What we have, no one can break. What we have, no one can take. Because what we have others hate, and that's…

— Marquis Heath

“I envy you, your youth. Every woman is still a dream, a thing that can’t exist. Even when you touch her, a…

— Rasmenia Massoud

As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our…

— Laurie Helgoe

Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors. He has…

— Tamora Pierce

People seldom know the sacrifices you made to get where you are, yet they criticize you and envy you, instead of trying…

— Rashida Rowe

What is envy? It is nothing but passive jealousy. Maybe jealousy is too strong a phenomenon; envy is a little passive. The…

— Rajneesh

I don't really know what Americans are like. I've no idea. I know a few things about them. In my imagination, they…

— Sebastian Horsley

You are just jealous," Magnus remarked calmly. "Because you do not have the soul of a true artiste like myself." "Oh, I…

— Cassandra Clare

Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained,…

— Jeremy Collier

I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now. It's an old cliche, I…

— Jack Nicholson

I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're…

— David Benioff

Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred…

— Aristotle

Since when do we in America believe that our society is made up of two diametrically opposed classes - one rich, one…

— Ronald Reagan

Haters = [H]aving [A]nger [T]owards [E]veryone [R]eaching [S]uccess

— Raul Vasquez

“When I envied a man's spurs then they were indeed worth coveting.”

— Zane Grey

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

— Honore de Balzac

“Envy of others builds an insurmountable wall to our own success.”

— Mike Michalowicz

Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

— George Herbert

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

— Honore de Balzac

Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies. You must know this, Dumbledore.

— Voldemort

Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.

— Gustave Flaubert

Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.

— Peter Drucker

When you tell your friend who your crush is, and then they go and hookup with that person...

— Jazmin Garcia

I have a learning disability when it comes to languages, I envy actors like Prakash Raj and my kids who do it…

— Arvind Swami

Just for the record, I'm all that I can be, and I'll admit I'm appauled when you envy.

— Nicki Minaj

FACT: HATERS don't really hate you. They hate THEMSELVES because YOU are the reflection of what they wished to be.

— Anonymous

That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

— Rumi

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people…

— Roger Tory Peterson