Envy Quotes · Page 32

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

— Socrates

Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.

— Aeschylus

“The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful.”

— Mike Norton

Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.

— Ovid

Jealousy envy, please don't feel bad. This weed is mine get your own bag.

— Wiz Khalifa

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That feeling you get when you see someone you like with someone that doesn't deserve them.

— Jerett Parker

Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

— Honore de Balzac

“But envy is negative and outer-directed, not driven from within, and so I knew that it wouldn’t carry us very far down…

— Satya Nadella

Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on…

— Hosea Ballou

Don't envy those who make their wealth in an ungodly way. The wicked seem to prosper now and live without care but…

— T. B. Joshua

“Envy and malice are indefatigable. Where they have not invention enough to frame new slanders, or the slanders newly framed are found…

— Willard Sterne Randall

“You just know something is amiss, when you look at someone and long for something that is not yours or you cannot…

— Nadège Richards

Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said,…

— Douglas Coupland

Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

With vivid words your just conceptions grace, Much truth compressing in a narrow space; Then many shall peruse, but few complain, And…

— John Wolcot

“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

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion…

— Charles Alexander Eastman

The destructive fixation of the envious English-Canadian mind requires that the highest, happiest most agile flyers be laid low. [It is] a…

— Conrad Black

In the near future we will not be looking back at the early church with envy because of the great exploits of…

— Rick Joyner

All of us are prone to excuse our own mediocre performance. We blame our misfortunes, our disfigurements, our so-called handicaps. Victims of…

— Thomas S. Monson

Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced…

— Erich Fromm

The rich are the most discriminated-against minority in the world. Openly or covertly, everybody hates the rich because, openly or covertly, everybody…

— Tom Robbins

I don’t think I pity her. She doesn’t strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I…

— Henry James

I envy people who could just have one drink and not go look for cocaine afterwards.

— Felipe Esparza

Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of yours

— Anonymous

Most people want to see you to do better, but not doing better than them.

— London Mond

“Envy is often a clue that there is something latent in you that needs to be expressed.”

— Marie Forleo

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

— John S. Watson

More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“Anyone who interferes with the Personal Legend of another thing will never discover his own.”

— Paolo Coelho

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

“I once had a complete life - in love, in envy, in pains. Now, I was living a death. A peaceful, gorgeous,…

— Prashant Chopra

I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.

— George Payne Rainsford James

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

I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn't happen…

— Tom Stoppard