Envious Quotes

166 quotes by 139 authors

Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy. — Mason Cooley
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to… — Horatio Nelson
Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to… — Helmut Schoeck
I know that I have a lot of friends who are envious of me. But if there is something to be gained, obviously something else… — Minzy
Not necessarily reputation, rank, societal position or status,but the happiness and enjoyment that a person pretends or fakes to derive with his possessed money or… — Unknown Author
The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a… — Jean Giraudoux
Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind,… — Criss Jami
The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests. — Breyten Breytenbach
It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books.… — Garrett Hedlund
I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits. — Howard Hodgkin
I wouldn't wear turtlenecks. That I'm not envious of. But who knows? I might sneak out a few things and hope and pray that no… — Simon Helberg
The reason why we often get poor advice is that it's hard to find a person who always has our best interest at heart, isn't… — David J. Lieberman
The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your… — Desmond Tutu
The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants. — Horace
The envious will die, but envy never. — Moliere
For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting… — William Shakespeare
Love rejoices in good wherever it finds it; envy is pained by good, and the sight of the happiness of others hurts the eyes and… — Lawrence G. Lovasik
The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes. — Helmut Schoeck

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