Ability Quote by Dalai Lama

“Envy is the root of all negativity. To eliminate envy is to achieve peace in both spirituality and in the physical world.”

— Rahim Mawji

“Envy is an indispensable member of our society and somewhat a loyal friend of our society; its fruits can be sweeter or bitter; it…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

— Plutarch

If we can manage to refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious attention to…

— Dalai Lama

I am firmly convinced, as I have already said, that to effect any great social improvement, it is sympathy rather than self-interest, the sense…

— Henry George

Human beings are not intrinsically selfish, which isolates us from others. We are essentially social animals who depend on others to meet our needs.…

— Dalai Lama

“Envy is resentment of good things that happen to other people. Jealousy increases the importance of the person we wish belonged only to us.…

— Carlos Fuentes

Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness;…

— Jeremy Collier

When you strive for your own happiness, it inspires others to strive for their happiness. When you envy others happiness, it denies you of…

— Nicholas Zounis

Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

— Frederick Buechner

First of all, merely by living a simple life with a heart dedicated to overcoming self-cherishing, we automatically benefit others.

— Thubten Yeshe

Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.

— Jonathan Edwards