Envy Quotes

1097 Envy quotes by 766 unique authors

There is no tradition more worth of envy, no institution worthy of such loyalty, as the University of Georgia. — Unknown Author
I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong. — Salman Rushdie
If you envy me whatever modicom of success that I enjoy, you must also envy me my time, my labour, my finance, my anxiety, my… — Don King
In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little. — Lloyd Alexander
Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and… — Edward Abbey
Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism. — Martin Amis
I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the organized hustles. — Woody Allen
Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to… — Erich Fromm
If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit above justice... in… — Thucydides
I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die,… — Saul Bellow
In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy. — Giovanni Boccaccio
Ah, if only there were two of me, she thought, one who spoke and the other who listened, one who lived and one who watched,… — Simone de Beauvoir
[Providences] often puzzle and entangle our thoughts, but bring them to the Word, and your duty will be quickly manifested. "Until I went into the… — John Flavel
Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego. — Eckhart Tolle
The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger. — Thomas a Kempis
Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them. — Jennifer James
Envy, my children, follows pride; whoever is envious is proud. See, envy comes to us from Hell; the devils having sinned through pride, sinned also… — John Vianney
Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to pride, to envy,… — Unknown Author
To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to… — Virginia Woolf
No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us… — Seneca the Younger
Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy. — Isaac Asimov
Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. — Ayn Rand
Such is the state of every age, every sex, and every condition: all have their cares, either from nature or from folly; and whoever, therefore,… — Samuel Johnson
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. — Gautama Buddha
A man shall never be enriched by envy. — Thomas Draxe

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