Envy Quotes

1097 Envy quotes by 766 unique authors

Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you… — Rumi
Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we… — Paul Ryan
Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals. — Jonathan Sacks
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly… — William Shatner
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. — Susan Sontag
I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others… — Sonia Sotomayor
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. — Baruch Spinoza
Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains. — Barbra Streisand
Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit. — Stendhal
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that. — Oliver Stone
When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad. — Tacitus
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous. — Rabindranath Tagore
The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build. — Margaret Thatcher
Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts. — Jean Vanier
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy. — Lope de Vega
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. — Gore Vidal
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. — Gore Vidal
Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy. — Simone Weil
I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on. — Rachel Weisz
I'm tired of liberals dividing this country up into little groups, setting them upon each other, breeding spite and envy, and then having the nerve… — Allen West
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher. — Oprah Winfrey
Envy is an insult to oneself. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive… — Fareed Zakaria
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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