Envy Quotes
1097 Envy quotes by 766 unique authors
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Blessed loves! how happy they have made us on the earth; what will they be when they have deepened through ages, with no alloy of…
— Randolph Sinks Foster
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No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at…
— Alain de Botton
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Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.
— Paul David Tripp
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Envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness.
— Bertrand Russell
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Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of Heavens. So it…
— C.S. Lewis
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It is the free spirited men and women that we most admire and often envy - those individuals who dare to be themselves.
— Kevyn Aucoin
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What a lovely place this world would be if only people would feel affection for everyone else, and all the ugliness of the human heart…
— Sayo Masuda
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Don't envy the harvest of the rich. Envy their planting.
— Bo Sanchez
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The idea of caring is that someone is making money faster [than you are] is one of the deadly sins. Envy is a really stupid…
— Charlie Munger
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School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural…
— Jules Henry
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Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned
— Roger Waters
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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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Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness.
— Bahá'u'lláh
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Did you not look upon the world this morning and imagine it as the boy might see it? And did you not recognize the mist…
— Jamie O'Neill
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The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God
— Jerry Bridges
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No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or hesitation, depression or…
— Widad Akrawi
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Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.
— Billy Graham
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Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces of humankind. What…
— David Gemmell
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Envy is when you resent God's goodness in other people's lives and ignore God's goodness in your own life.
— Craig Groeschel
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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
— Alexander Pope
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It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning.
— Neale Donald Walsch
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I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in…
— John Ruskin
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Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.
— Thurgood Marshall
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The Devil endeavours by every means to keep men in error, in the enticement of the passions, in darkness of mind and heart; in pride,…
— John of Kronstadt
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