Ability Quote by Thomas Hobbes

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

— Honore de Balzac

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

— Ouida

Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification.

— Sydney Thompson Dobell

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Envy, propelled by fear, can be even more toxic than anger, because it involves the thought that other people enjoy the good things of…

— Martha Nussbaum

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

— Ambrose Bierce

Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

— Alexander Pope

Emulation has been termed a spur to virtue, and assumes to be a spur of gold. But it is a spur composed of baser…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

— Jodi Picoult

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

— Abraham Verghese

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

— Frederick Buechner

“Envy comes from wanting something that isn't yours, but grief comes from losing something you've already had.”

— Jodi Picoult