Envy Quotes · Page 37

“...envy is the one deadly sin that no American can ever admit to...”

— Michael Gruber

My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.

— William Shakespeare

I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.

— Aimee Mann

Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.

— Bill Watterson

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

— Francis Bacon

As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy.

— Masiela Lusha

IF ENVY DESIRE TO BE YOUR BEST FRIEND THEN YOU SHOULD DESIRE TO BE HER WORST ENEMY.

— CORNELIUS IBIOLORUNDUN

We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.

— Alain de Botton

When you strive for your own happiness, it inspires others to strive for their happiness. When you envy others happiness, it denies…

— Nicholas Zounis

“Envy is the most futile of emotions. Sometimes, you are envying an idea you have about someone, but you’re actually envying fiction.”

— Carol Mason

Jealousy is sometimes the reason why a relationship gets complicated. But don't you know that being jealous is very important? Because being…

— Anonymous

We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy…

— Marco Rubio

So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it…

— Ray Bradbury

“Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in…

— Kamand Kojouri

Don't be envious of people with the perfect life, try to sacrifice your time as individuals towards achieving the best life you…

— Kemmy Nola

“Envy is not a trait worth cultivating. Every successful life has an untold story. Instead, let passion drive you to succeed at…

— Ojingiri Hannah

“You can feel anything. All is free for you to feel. But I guarantee you that if you allow yourself to feel…

— C. JoyBell C

“Don't envy results, seek to know the process. Don't want a man's glory till you hear his story. Sometimes what you see…

— Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

Certainly, envy is no monopoly of the poor; it makes itself felt in all sections of society; it haunts the court, the…

— Henry Parry Liddon

“As Nietzsche noted in Daybreak: When some men fail to accomplish what they desire to do they exclaim angrily, “May the whole…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the…

— Wes Jackson

I often envy a filmmaker or a playwright or an author where people are like, "Yeah, I sat down every night and…

— Dan Deacon

“To show you what you would not otherwise believe,' Locke said. 'Envy. Fear. Anger. Jealousy. They're all spices.' He laughed at my…

— Holly Black

Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him…

— Thomas Hobbes

Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue

— Anonymous

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

— George Herbert

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

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

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Peter Drucker

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

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

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Susan Ee