Envious Quotes
166 quotes by 139 authors
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As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself
— Lloyd Bridges
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Certainly people are always very envious of me. When I join a new theater company, the other actors look down the program, see my Return…
— Unknown Author
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Comparing [our] blessings [with others] is almost certain to drive out joy. We cannot be grateful and envious at the same time. If we truly…
— Quentin L. Cook
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Victims may be defensive, submissive, over-accommodating to others, passive-aggressive in conflict, dependent on others for self-worth, overly sensitive, even manipulative. They're often angry, resentful, and…
— David Emerald Womeldorff
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There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it…
— William Hazlitt
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Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets seem able to…
— Julian Barnes
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Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy. You can’t…
— Bel Kaufman
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Envy, my children, follows pride; whoever is envious is proud. See, envy comes to us from Hell; the devils having sinned through pride, sinned also…
— John Vianney
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The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
— Socrates
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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 in the other…
— M. J. Ryan
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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore. I look at…
— Martha Graham
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I was in love with everything- I wanted to look with love at the angry people so that their eyes would be forced to respond;…
— Egon Schiele
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Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.
— Young Jeezy
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I hate climbers like Royal Robbins who are so superior. He doesn’t mean to be, he just is. He’s methodic, scientific, capable, and so competent…
— Warren G. Harding
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Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don't be envious, be honest with…
— Bernard Baruch
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A person influenced by circumstances can become viciously envious or affectionately kind. Our company and our surroundings have a crucial effect on our consciousness. How…
— Radhanath Swami
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Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is the the soul with its…
— Michael Leunig
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The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is…
— Zhuangzi
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Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things.
— James Salter
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