Envy Quotes

1097 Envy quotes by 766 unique authors

Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original… — Thomas Brooks
Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who… — Ivan Turgenev
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none… — Epictetus
Not praising the deserving prevents envy. — Laozi
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes… — J F C Fuller
God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality. — Jacques Rigaut
A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry… — Thomas Traherne
The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with… — Antoine Rivarol
There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need. — Regina Brett
We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next. — Alain de Botton
A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of… — Eric Hoffer
The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it… — Jennifer Haigh
Jealousy is the fire of envy that seeks to destroy another's beauty, rather than to create its own. — Wes Fesler
God being infinite beauty, the soul united to Christ draws upon himself the admiring and tender gaze of the Angels, who, were they capable of… — Pope Pius X
Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy. — Hakim Bey
The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the… — John Berger
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society ... recognises nothing except the power to acquire ...… — John Berger
Remembrance of our kiss brings not your lips nor mine to mind. The flesh can only envy consumption so divine. — Vanna Bonta
Can the real Constitution be restored? Probably not. Too many Americans depend on government money under programs the Constitution doesn't authorize, and money talks with… — Joseph Sobran
Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, 'Which one, Hades?' — Gina Barreca
It is unethical not to know. It is unethical not to think. It is unethical not to love. It is unethical not to live an… — Yasuhiko Kimura
Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health,… — Jean de la Bruyere

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