Envious Quote by Helmut Schoeck Download Open image “The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.” — Helmut Schoeck ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Envious Inspirational Jealousy Kindness Men
The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
A man needs the feelings of kindness to think great than thinking of the greatness to feel good. — Anuj Copy Share Image
Kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable and not kind; merciful, yet not… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
Poor human nature cannot do everything; and kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a… — Anonymous Copy Share
There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The envious are more likely to be mollified by seeing others deprived of some advantage than by gaining it for themselves. It is not… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him. — Helmut Schoeck Copy Share Image
Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious… — Helmut Schoeck Copy Share Image
We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all… — Helmut Schoeck Copy Share Image
Man's envy is at its most intense where all are almost equal; his calls for redistribution are loudest when there is virtually nothing to… — Helmut Schoeck Copy Share Image
The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself — Helmut Schoeck Copy Share Image
To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and has been… — Helmut Schoeck Copy Share Image
“The utopian desire for an egalitarian society cannot, however, have sprung from any other motive than that of an inability to come to terms… — Helmut Schoeck Copy Share Image
Let your love drive you mad, mad about life, mad about the smell of Jasmine. Mad about the painting that reminds you of one… — Melody Minagar Copy Share Image
Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
“There, display and extravagance, in dress, in furniture, in costly entertainments, are startling. They seem to push you back into a corner, like a… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things. — James Salter Copy Share Image
I made a decision to stop feeling envious of other people, to crack on with my life and stop comparing myself with others. — Jess Phillips Copy Share Image
Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Because I am a horrible flincher, contact lenses are not an option. I'm always envious of contact-wearers. There are endless reasons to take off… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I was in love with everything- I wanted to look with love at the angry people so that their eyes would be forced to… — Egon Schiele Copy Share Image
The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
