Ambition Quote by Michel de Montaigne

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

All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced…

— Samuel Johnson

Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.

— Herodotus

Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in…

— Michel de Montaigne

Envy is human nature.

— Monica Bellucci

Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained, and the…

— Jeremy Collier

“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

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

— Frederick Buechner

Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Envy is like flame which scorches the wisdom of inner self. Envy reflects lack of belief in self. It will eat away your very…

— Anil Sinha

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

— Jonathan Edwards