The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it.… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
These golden matters Of Gyges and his treasuries Are no concern of mine. Jealousy has no power over me, Nor do I… — Archilochus Copy Share Image
Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
America is a global leader on clean air progress and carbon dioxide reductions, and we are the envy of the world when… — Andrew R. Wheeler Copy Share Image
Why wouldn't you want to be the envy of your neighbors by being so good and so generous and so smart in… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Oppressed cultures often envy those which are not, or oppressed individuals do, and sometimes those which - and who - are not… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
I think when someone blindly projects and it's showing up in the form of envy or hate - and I actually think… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
We can understand that the Fathers of the Church in the East wanted Apocalypse left out of the New Testament. But like… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“These days, I am very glad to be a mortal, and to only have to endure this life once. These days, I… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
The Wickans know that the gift of power is never free. They know enough not to envy the chosen among them, for… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
I have performed my duty to my God, my country, and my family. I have nothing to fear in approaching death. To… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
“I might have been different, I might have been as good as you - wiser - almost stainless. I envy your peace… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“RELATIVITY HELPS US make decisions in life. But it can also make us downright miserable. Why? Because jealousy and envy spring from… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
For years I looked at the Iranians with envy - not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
The first thing the male establishment wants to control is uterus and birth. You might call it womb envy. But even worse… — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that.… — Adam Scott Copy Share Image
Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
O frost bitten blossoms, That are unfolding your wings From out the envious black branches. Bloom quickly and make much of the… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“If an American worker saw you driving a Cadillac, he worked to. earn enough to buy one for himself; the English worker,… — Elizabeth Powers Copy Share Image
I was different unique and always happy. At school this attracted playground harassment. Nowadays, while I remain effervescent, quicker to perceive enmity… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Especially when I'm heckled, that's a sticky situation because I don't defuse it... I really envy guys who have a grittier onstage… — Josh Gondelman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
People will talk about you when they envy you and the life you lead. Let them. You affected their life. Dont let… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't envy these kids these days. Between Instagram and Twitter... the easiest thing is just take your phone off the hook,… — Chris Mullin Copy Share Image
“Jealousy was essentially "I want what you have," while envy was "I want what you have, but I also want to take… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The difference between your enemies and your friends your enemies envy you because ur completing your friends envy u because ur succeeding — Terri B Copy Share Image
The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
