Envy Quotes · Page 28

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

— Germaine Greer

Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.

— David O. McKay

“Those who are critical don’t like being criticized, and those who are insensitive have a deficiency in their senses.”

— Suzy Kassem

It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above that.

— Hillman Curtis

“Democratic institutions strongly tend to promote the feeling of envy.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

— Nancy Friday

“we often envy our own abilities to escape -- as even in daydreams we find reason for an end." from Human Nature”

— Tarringo T. Vaughan

The thing that hurts the most is seeing him happy with another girl and wishing that it could have been you instead.

— Lisette Alfaro

He continues to give more than 100 per cent and his schoolboy-like enthusiasm for the game is something I envy and admire.…

— Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: "Nobody is going to occupy a place…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

the most censorious are generally the least judicious; who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man…

— Ellin Devis

“Every time someone in town wins a literary award, someone will protest — why him, not me, making a big Fuss? And…

— Mouloud Benzadi

Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Even if you assume that the whole economy would work better had we never had double taxation, having the envy and resentment…

— Charlie Munger

Sometimes I envy emotionless people but then I remember that life is short and awesome and you should feel everything as much…

— Anonymous

“Pen Is Envy, Aunt Lydia would say, quoting another Center motto, warning us away from such objects. And they were right, it…

— Margaret Atwood

“She was resilient A brave soldier when life tested her It didn't matter that she did strange things like stand tall under…

— M.J. Abraham

For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness,…

— Herman Melville

For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“How do you curb envy? First, stop comparing yourself to others. Second, find your “circle of competence” and fill it on your…

— Rolf Dobelli

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.[or you will create disappointment and envy, as every other person has…

— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

I'm afraid to walk in public, because people look at me. But I'm not going to stop. I'm afraid because if I…

— Steve Gleason

I don't think the role of style is different for a woman of any age. Style, to me, is about experimenting with…

— Elizabeth Heyert

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

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

— Samuel Johnson

The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]

— Moliere

Keep yourselves far from envy; because it eats up and takes away good actions, like a fire eats up and burns wood.

— Anonymous

Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?

— Bantu Holomisa

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking…

— Julian Fellowes

“Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”

— Markus Zusak

Despite some struggles of our own, Americas business and economic system remains the envy of much of the world.

— John S. Watson

There can be little doubt that many egalitarians are motivated at least partly by envy.

— Henry Hazlitt

Keep yourselves far from envy; it eateth up and taketh away good actions, like as fire eateth up and burneth wood

— Muhammad

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

— Plutarch

Envy Blowing out the other person's candle will not make your's shine better .

— Ritu Ghatourey

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People hate you for one of three reasons. They hate themselves, they want to be you, or they see you as a…

— Rashida Rowe

Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.

— Walter Savage Landor

Hatred always burns ourselves first before it reaches other people.

— Stevens Chen

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

— William Graham Sumner