Envy Quotes

1097 Envy quotes by 766 unique authors

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy. — Denis Waitley
The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it… — Truman Capote
He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
We are all here now and we have to solve our differences and live together as Australians... I will use the title you have honoured… — Lowitja O'Donoghue
If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is… — William Faulkner
I don't really understand what a dictator is, but on the other hand I sometimes, in a nice way, envy myself," he said. "I am… — Alexander Lukashenko
Some fans keep booing and whistling at me because I'm handsome, rich and a great player. They envy me. — Cristiano Ronaldo
Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of… — Charles Caleb Colton
Envy is the basis of democracy. — Bertrand Russell
As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy. — Robert Kuttner
A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had… — Marcus Buckingham
Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well… — Diana Peterfreund
I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with… — Sherwood Anderson
It's said that prayer can move mountains. Well, it's certainly moved the hearts and minds of Americans in their times of trial and helped them… — Ronald Reagan
It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and made it the… — Ronald Reagan
Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities, and to see… — Alexander Hamilton
The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead. — Nikita Khrushchev
Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge. — Iris Murdoch
As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our own company, a… — Laurie Helgoe
Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of… — Georges Bernanos
Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him. — Unknown Author
The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. — John Berger
Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums. — Samuel Johnson
All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by… — Samuel Johnson
Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did… — Samuel Johnson

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