Envy Quotes

1097 Envy quotes by 766 unique authors

When a jealous person sees signs of other people's success and good fortune, his heart is pierced with envy. But someone who has learned to… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Virtually all of life's ills boil down to mindlessness. If you can understand someone else's perspective, then there's no reason to be angry at them,… — Ellen Langer
Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice. — Thomas Sowell
Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to… — Gretchen Rubin
To help us bring benefit to others through our words and actions, it is useful to cultivate an attitude of sympathetic joy in others’ achievements… — Dalai Lama
Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along. — Mignon McLaughlin
Envy, like the worm, is always attracted to the fairest apple — Og Mandino
We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who… — Helmut Schoeck
Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy. — Herodotus
The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.' — Plato
Yet, when we must put aside our wrath, quench our envy, soften our anger, offer our prayers, and show a disposition which is reasonable, mild,… — Saint John Chrysostom
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Blessings come in packages of two. With every blessing is a test. So don't ever envy people who seem to have more than you. The… — Yasmin Mogahed
In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will… — James Bryce
He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God? — Swami Vivekananda
Let’s face it: There are people who won’t be happy when you get too blessed. There are people who feel threatened by your success. There… — Bo Sanchez
I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens. — Rumi
The only thing I envy in young people is their livers. — Brendan Behan
It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him. — Napoleon Hill
There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of… — Samuel Johnson
I've never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to year. I want… — Ray Bradbury
Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; - but the father, for love! — Octavius Winslow
Don't envy those who make their wealth in an ungodly way. The wicked SEEM to prosper now and live without a care but they will… — T. B. Joshua
The gaze that the colonized subject casts at the colonist's sector is a look of lust, a look of envy. Dreams of possession. Every type… — Frantz Fanon

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