Envy Quotes

1097 Envy quotes by 766 unique authors

I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through. — Paul Simon
"There aint nothin gonna stop me so just envy it" — Lil Wayne
No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed. — Tupac Shakur
Congratulations is the civility of envy. — Ambrose Bierce
That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to… — Ben Jonson
If you don't like me, why do you waste your time making fun of me? — Chad Anderson
When people don't want the best for you, they are not the best for you. — Gayle King
Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy… — Ephrem the Syrian
I do not envy the owners of very large gardens. The garden should fit its owner or his or her tastes, just as one's clothes… — Gertrude Jekyll
I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends. — James Boswell
Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with others in community, and from… — Charles R. Swindoll
Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself.... — Unknown Author
Drop jealousy and envy, for they make you ugly. Be loving, be accepting, and most of all... be happy just the way you are. — Leon Brown
Young girls envy the life yall leading, never satisfied with a nice calm evening — Drake
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. — Max Beerbohm
She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young… — Doris Lessing
The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed. — Eric Hoffer
This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high. — Abraham Cowley
When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people. — Seneca the Younger
Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success — Matthieu Ricard
The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which is kind, meek,… — Howard W. Hunter
Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility , because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist. — Rajneesh
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of. — Henry Fielding
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot.… — John Donne

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