Envious Quotes

166 Envious quotes by 139 unique authors

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
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
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
The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor. — Socrates
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things. — James Salter
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

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