Do Not Be Envious Quotes

#1. Based upon the tournament results and the formal propositions, four simple suggestions are offered for individual choice: do not be envious of the other player's success; do not be the first to defect; reciprocate both cooperation and defection; and do not be too clever.

Robert Axelrod

#2. Uplift & Inspire, do not be envious of others success. You are given the same hours in a day. Make it worthwhile! Instead of focusing on what someone else is doing, pay attention to how you're living and make the best of life

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#3. Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

Horace

#4. An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.

William Shakespeare

#5. The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

Oscar Wilde

#6. When we hesitate to change on time, we predispose ourselves to miss the boat that would take us to our envious future...

Assegid Habtewold

#7. People ask if I can get it up in the morning. I tell them are you kidding I'm envious of a stiff wind.

Rodney Dangerfield

#8. Abolishing centuries old traditions of the prosperous South, seemed to motivate their envious souls into annihilating what looked to the world, God's Heaven on Earth.

Max Connelly

#9. Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy.

Mason Cooley

#10. Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

Voltaire

#11. In wine is truth, and the truth had all come out, "that is, all the uncleanness of his coarse and envious heart"!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#12. Certainly people are always very envious of me. When I join a new theater company, the other actors look down the program, see my Return of the Jedi credit and say, 'Oh, you were part of Star Wars.' I smile and say, 'Yes, but only for twenty-six and a half seconds.'

Caroline Blakiston

#13. When equality is treated ... as an ideal, we begin to breed that stunted and envious sort of mind which hates all superiority. That mind is the special disease of democracy, as cruelty and servility are the special diseases of privileged societies. It will kill us all if it grows unchecked.

C.S. Lewis

#14. When everyone was falling in and out of love with some random guy they sat next to in history, I never felt swoony or envious. It seemed a waste. Guys, or at least the ones I'd met, didn't seem worth the bother.

Eileen Cook

#15. Directing a movie is the greatest job in the world. I could not be more envious of the guys who get to do it all the time.

Jason Bateman

#16. It was a great story and I admired her. And I also felt a little envious. Because that bloody tampon had been a secret weapon. And every woman had one. But only a woman like Debby would be brave enough to use it.

Augusten Burroughs

#17. Fire engine red paint job, big block V8 rumbling, the 1968 Ford Mustang elicited envious stares from nearly everyone it passed.

Andrew Clawson

#18. To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.

Jean Giraudoux

#19. I saw his eyes close and figured he'd probably be asleep immediately. I felt irrationally envious of him - someone who could just drift off, someone whose thoughts didn't keep him up. Someone like I'd once been.

Anonymous

#20. Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you're not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

Joyce Meyer

#21. Peleus acknowledged this. "Yet other boys will be envious that you have chosen such a one. What will you tell them?"
"I will tell them nothing." The answer came with no hesitation, clear and crisp. "It is not for them to say what I will do.

Madeline Miller

#22. The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.

Helmut Schoeck

#23. The true definition of a phony is a high flyer with low mileage; a person who offers a worldview from the comforts of his/her living room.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#24. Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much." Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your little is worse than the worst of my much, I will keep on doing so.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

#25. Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it,
feel it, and hate in silence.

Washington Allston

#26. I'm envious of how well he's engineered to survive, to conquer, to outlast apocalypse.

Karen Marie Moning

#27. How could we even begin to disarm greed and envy? Perhaps by being much less greedy and envious ourselves; perhaps by resisting the temptation of letting our luxuries become needs; and perhaps by even scrutinising our needs to see if they cannot be simplified and reduced.

Ernst F. Schumacher

#28. I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.

Chuck Klosterman

#29. The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.

John Lyly

#30. You must acquire the trick of ignoring those who do not like you. In my experience, those who do not like you fall into two categories: the stupid, and the envious. The stupid will like you in five years time, the envious never.

Stephen Jeffreys

#31. There is no worse discriminator than envy. No worse traitor than envy. Even those who are seemingly righteous, are brought down low by their envy. A true man will be known by his absence of envy. An evil man will be known by the presence of envy within him.

C. JoyBell C.

#32. It's silly to think the left eye would envy the right or that one foot would be jealous of the other, and yet so often it is the case.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#33. Never be envious of what someone else has.You don't know the price they paid to get it, and you don't know the price they are paying to keep it.

Stephan Labossiere

#34. At my age I'm envious of a stiff wind.

Rodney Dangerfield

#35. We've been pretty lucky we've played with Feeder, Hundred Reasons and Puddle of Mud, but I think the one we're most proud of is playing with The Deftones because when we were kids they were everyone's favourite band. I think all our mates were pretty envious.

Dave McPherson

#36. A hopeful life is a successful life. People who bury their hopes and crave for someone's success never know that their diamond is hidden as they envy other's silver!

Israelmore Ayivor

#37. The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

John Quincy Adams

#38. An envious heart can't be original.

Toba Beta

#39. Envy yearns to find flaws.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#40. If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.

Aiden Wilson Tozer