To worry about differences in earned incomes simply because some persons earn more than other persons is to wallow in envy. And… — Donald J. Boudreaux Copy Share Image
The cheap but simple human emotion of envy is the driving force of all socialism, of all anti-capitalist philosophy. It is the… — Andrew Joseph Galambos Copy Share Image
Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
My conscience is my crown,Contented thoughts my rest;My heart is happy in itself,My bliss is in my breast.Enough I reckon wealth;A mean… — Robert Southwell Copy Share Image
“Someone's great blessing has sprung from a pain that you may not be able to endure. So, envy not the blessings they… — J.S. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
“It was amazing to see the actual moment when Denny the boy became Denny the man. I admit that I had a… — Karen Harrington Copy Share Image
Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses. The welfare of the… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin,… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What is envy? It is nothing but passive jealousy. Maybe jealousy is too strong a phenomenon; envy is a little passive. The… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You are just jealous," Magnus remarked calmly. "Because you do not have the soul of a true artiste like myself." "Oh, I… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If someone is leaving you behind, and you are becoming jealous and embittered, keep praying that he may have success in the… — William Law Copy Share Image
Envy is like flame which scorches the wisdom of inner self. Envy reflects lack of belief in self. It will eat away… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot… — John Donne Copy Share Image
What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends,… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Lucian's father had warned him to fear idle men. Without the pride gained from a good day's work, they were left to… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
There are only two reasons why people gossip about you; it's either you are better than them or they like you but… — Tshepo Koos Maluleke Copy Share Image
On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Even if the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, keep to your own side; it's where you belong.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud, and softens the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which… — Rumi Copy Share Image
When the enemies' land force is once conquered and expelled from the continent, our Marine will rise as if by enchantment and… — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Blessed loves! how happy they have made us on the earth; what will they be when they have deepened through ages, with… — Randolph Sinks Foster Copy Share Image
“Into the wind we vary, Our hearts free of youth, Mold me into envy, If I can’t have your muse; Under toe,… — Adrianna Stepiano Copy Share Image
No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“Travel always excited her--the strong and unfamiliar smells, the movement, the anxiety of arrival and departure times, she shouting of conductors, the… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
“Talent breeds resentment; brilliance attracts envy. Lesser souls seek comfort in bringing down those who are admitted into the company of gods.… — Eva Stachniak Copy Share Image
Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people,… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
