Envious Quotes

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If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and how… — Holbrook Jackson
Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing… — Diogenes
The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they… — Baltasar Gracian
The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill… — Charles Caleb Colton
Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what… — Arthur Schopenhauer
...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic. — Sonja Lyubomirsky
I have been envious of male characteristics, if not the men themselves. I'm jealous of the ease with which they seem to inhabit their professional… — Lena Dunham
You must acquire the trick of ignoring those who do not like you. In my experience, those who do not like you fall into two… — Unknown Author
The destructive fixation of the envious English-Canadian mind requires that the highest, happiest most agile flyers be laid low. [It is] a sadistic desire corroded… — Conrad Black
Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another. — Andy Stanley
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is… — W. Somerset Maugham
Anytime you feel jealous or envious, you reject your uniqueness. It's a criticism of God's plan for you. — Rick Warren
At my age I'm envious of a stiff wind. — Rodney Dangerfield
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness. — Bertrand Russell
Satan the envious said with a sigh: Christians know more about their hell than I — Alfred Kreymborg
The gaze that the colonized subject casts at the colonist's sector is a look of lust, a look of envy. Dreams of possession. Every type… — Frantz Fanon
The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself — Helmut Schoeck
I mean, that is a mop of real hair. He has hair like a 15-year-old ... and so, I have to acknowledge I am a… — Harry Reid
I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards -- When I find him to be envious, carping,… — Anthony Trollope

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