Don't Be Envious Of Others Quotes

#1. I hope we can be happy where we are, be grateful for our blessings-now-here, accept the challenge that is ours and make the most of it, and don't be envious of others. God help us to be grateful.

Ezra Taft Benson

#2. If you learn to develop an abundant mentality you will not be envious of others, you will celebrate their successes, you share in their joys and pains; don't see life as a competition but a complimentary.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#3. I've got such an envious heart;
It sloshes and aches
when you touch her face,
and I don't know what to do with it,
other than to just
let
it
break.

Hayley Stumbo

#4. 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

#5. Envy is an envious person and truth they don't like to wear

Marcelle Hinkson

#6. But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes ... And we don't judge and we don't betray. We're not jealous. We're not envious. We're not even weary, which is a danger also as kids. They have to learn a certain amount of awareness.

Colin Farrell

#7. It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.

John Darnielle

#8. True friends are very transparent to each other, they don't have hidden agenda and they are not envious of each other's achievements.

Euginia Herlihy

#9. It's amazing how many times we need to go against our survival instincts to survive.

Susan Ee

#10. Us colored folks is too envious of one 'nother. Dat's how come us don't git no further than us do. Us talks about de white man keepin' us down! Shucks! He don't have tuh. Us keeps our own selves down.

Zora Neale Hurston

#11. I'm from Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It's right outside Detroit. The suburbs. I was always very heavily involved in theater back then. I was always in drama club or forensics. Anything that you could do that had some performing, I was doing it.

Paul Feig

#12. A part of me is always envious of people who live in the present and are sustained by a sense of spontaneity. Even dogs have that capacity: they're always wanting to participate in something, and I don't often have that element in me.

Peter Shaffer

#13. Being able to live without having to be defined by your skin color is the hallmark of privilege.

Luvvie Ajayi

#14. It's bad enough to love someone who don't love you, but to have them told of it is perfectly awful. It makes me wild just to think of it. Ah, Fan, I'm getting so ill tempered and envious and wicked, I don't know what will happen to me. - Polly

Louisa May Alcott

#15. Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.

Penn Jillette

#16. I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am.

James McAvoy

#17. I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.

Ron Howard

#18. Complaining or picketing will not solve a problem but understanding will.

Debasish Mridha

#19. Don't be envious of the runner in the lane next to you; just focus on finishing your race.

Rick Warren

#20. I don't care for success. The ideas sitting in my head are annoyed by, and envious of, that which I've already written.

Anton Chekhov

#21. There was no point in tears outliving eyes, so she let them fall.

Sarah Winman

#22. My first business was a retro-gaming site where you'd go and play all these cool old-school games. It was a good idea but ahead of its time.

Nick Woodman

#23. 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 one's glasses during the day and, as I have grown older, what I don't see has become increasingly pronounced.

Sloane Crosley

#24. Don't waste your time being envious of what you don't have or who you want to be. Instead, focus on what you do have and who you can become.

April Mae Monterrosa

#25. I don't think there are many kids who sit around and want to be actors. I don't think there are many kids who want to sit around and want to be senators. But so many of us want to be athletes, so we're envious of them and we put them up on that pedestal.

Frank Deford

#26. When I would see my friends with their kids, I was envious that you can use children to get out of just about anything. If you don't feel like going to a dinner party, you could say, 'My kid's sick. I can't make it.' Who's gonna argue with you?

Kevin Nealon

#27. The paradise offered by the culture industry is the same old drudgery. Both escape and elopement are pre-designed to lead back to the starting point. Pleasure promotes the resignation which it ought to help to forget.

Theodor W. Adorno

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

Assegid Habtewold

#29. 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

#30. Without the concentration of the mind and the will, performance would not result.

Roger Bannister