Bitterness Envy Quotes

#1. And yet he was happier in his unused room simply because it was his, his possession. I thought with bitterness and envy, if one possesses a thing securely, one need never use it.

Graham Greene

#2. Beware of those who steer you away from your heart's true happiness. It would make them happy to see you steer yourself right next to them, sitting with both your hearts bitter.

Suzy Kassem

#3. The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future.
Cut loose the past; it is dead weight.
Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.

Stephen Baxter

#4. Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to be worshiped.

Suzy Kassem

#5. All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#6. happiness is that state wherein a person is flooded with positive energy and thus has no time and space for any sort of negativity, such as anger, sadness, envy, and bitterness, among other things.

Edgar J. Keyes

#7. We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers ... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness ...

Alain De Botton

#8. There is no disappointment so numbing ... as someone no better than you achieving more.

Joseph Heller

#9. Beware of those who are bitter, for they will never allow you to enjoy your fruit.

Suzy Kassem

#10. Watch out for those who celebrate your success with bitterness in their hearts! surely, they'll hail you for what you are, and hate you for what you have become.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#11. The real work was the identification of those aspects of yourself that led to what he called "the negative emotions" - anger, envy, bitterness, greed, cynicism, hatred and the like - things that poured hurt into an already overfull world.

Roland Merullo

#12. Most complain about dried up lawns; others envy a neighbor's green lawn, but winners learn from all lawns while cultivating their own.

Orrin Woodward

#13. Millions upon millions will attain your ceremony, but don't think all of them are in a ceremonius mood.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#14. Probably nothing in the experience of the rank and file of workers causes more bitterness and envy than the realization which comes sooner or later to many of them that they are "stuck" and can go no further.

Mary Barnett Gilson

#15. Any designer believes his gun is the best, and when its test performance is a bit less impressive compared to others, he feels bitterness and envy.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

#16. He who welcomes anger impairs himself.
He who harbors hate harms himself.
He who entertains envy consumes himself.
He who accommodates bitterness hurts himself.
He who cherishes greed injures himself.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration, hope, decency..the product of that struggle is the quality of your life and the nature of your soul.

Emma Forrest

#18. Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.

Hosea Ballou

#19. Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.

John Lancaster Spalding