Top 100 Never Envy Quotes
#1. I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
J. Paul Getty
#2. I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself.
Napoleon Hill
#3. Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is
where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge.
Robert C. Shannon
#4. The idea of caring is that someone is making money faster [than you are] is one of the deadly sins. Envy is a really stupid sin because it's the only one you could never possibly have any fun at. There's a lot of pain and no fun. Why would you want to get on that trolley?
Charlie Munger
#5. Oh, miraculous chameleon, science, who can reverse your doctrine hourly and never shake our faith! What cult ever battered by this world of doubt can help but envy you?
Ada Palmer
#6. 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
#7. It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above that.
Hillman Curtis
#8. People used to envy me my inspiration. I hate inspiration. It takes you over completely. I could never wait until it passed and I got rid of it.
Henry Miller
#9. 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
#10. I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#11. Young girls envy the life yall leading, never satisfied with a nice calm evening
Drake
#12. Clouds buzz by, unaware of the scary world below them. I envy them. I envy the easy way that they live and die. They never have to worry about tomorrow and what horrors or death it might bring.
Dannielle Wicks
#13. I don't believe that there is a human creature in his senses, arrived to maturity, that at some time or other has not been carried away by this passion (sc. envy) in good earnest; yet I never met with any one who dared own he was guilty of it but in jest.
Bernard De Mandeville
#14. I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame
John Adams
#15. Envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are.
Margaret Of Valois
#16. So the point of my keeping a notebook has never been, nor is it now, to have an accurate factual record of what I have been doing or thinking. That would be a different impulse entirely, an instinct for reality which I sometimes envy but do not possess.
Joan Didion
#17. Your skill can never buy you love. It may win you admiration and envy, but never love. If that was what you were after, you have wasted your time.
Patricia St. John
#18. We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#19. Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Dorothy Parker
#20. He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God?
Swami Vivekananda
#21. A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed.
H.L. Mencken
#22. The envious will die, but envy never.
Moliere
#23. If you are stealing people's thunder just by being around and standing there; you really can't expect people to like you. People want their own thunder to be heard loud and wide, not yours! Swans should never despair over ducks not liking them.
C. JoyBell C.
#24. Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
Francis Beaumont
#25. People often speak of hell, not wanting to go there, avoiding it..etc. I never had that problem because hell is a state of mind. Look around you; rape, murder, wars, hatred, envy ... my friend; you're already there!!
Sandra Chami Kassis
#26. I never wished I'd been a man. I always felt like a woman and wanted to be a woman. I wanted to be fulfilled professionally and personally, as a woman. There are some who might say I had penis envy, but I only had penis admiration.
Bette Davis
#27. Never show how smart you are, dears, or someone will envy you.
Elizabeth Moon
#28. 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
#29. We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.'
Marco Rubio
#30. Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.
Kahlil Gibran
#31. What has worked for America is not caring about how the rich are doing, or the politics of envy. What's worked for America is growth. Growth is the reason why I had a very nice middle class upbringing with parents who never went to college.
Anthony Scaramucci
#32. There isn't a king or a merchant prince in the whole world that I envy, for I always knew I was born to be a child of destiny and that I was never meant to wring my living from detestable, low, degrading, mean and ordinary kinds of business.
John Cheever
#33. Jealousy is a bitch nigga trait never truss a man who always ask what u make
Blanco Vandam
#34. Dead men may envy living mites in cheese,
Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys,
And subdivide, and never come to death.
Wilfred Owen
#35. Even if you assume that the whole economy would work better had we never had double taxation, having the envy and resentment of the richest paying low or no taxes screams of injustice. You have to have a fair system.
Charlie Munger
#36. Cease from envy, prejudice and unhealthy competitiveness. Never abandon your own mission and brand to pursue the seemingly exciting mission or vision of another.
Archibald Marwizi
#37. When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.
Nancy Friday
#38. We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep!
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
#39. These days, I am very glad to be a mortal, and to only have to endure this life once. These days, I don't envy you at all."
"And before?"
It was her turn to stare toward the horizon. "I used to wish I had a chance to see it all- and hated that I never would.
Sarah J. Maas
#40. When I woke in the dark I was smiling - it's a happy thing to brace for a visit from old friend Envy who then for some reason never shows up.
Leif Enger
#41. Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.
Mike Norton
#42. Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the first time, an experience you could never have again?
Jack Finney
#43. I can't make you understand
because you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of
a lion and an utter lack of imagination and I envy you both of
those qualities. You'll never mind facing realities and you'll
never want to escape from them as I do.
Margaret Mitchell
#44. Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.
John Fowles
#45. This beautiful, wonderful, sexy-as-sin woman is mine. You may look - and seethe with envy - but never touch.
Olivia Cunning
#46. Work hard to discover your gift and you will never envy or hate another human being who is manifesting theirs.
Louis Farrakhan
#47. Is it not strange that the more someone has, the less he feels he has? Envy can never be sated.
Jeff Wheeler
#48. There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
#49. I envy the trees that grow at crossroads. They are never forced to decide which way to go ...
Margarita Engle
#50. Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
Oliver Stone
#51. It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.
W. Somerset Maugham
#52. The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.
Juvenal
#54. The gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
Brad Pitt
#55. My life hasn't been perfect, yet I've never wasted my time envying anyone else. If something wasn't the best it could be - I made it better.
Aleatha Romig
#56. I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire.
Another life is never safely envied.
Robert Wells
#57. Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
Charles Bukowski
#58. Beware of those who are bitter, for they will never allow you to enjoy your fruit.
Suzy Kassem
#59. So many birds sitting around, on a dead wire, a bare branch, a cold ground, a drifting seashore; never realizing the glory in their wings and where it can take them, nor the envy as we look on them.
Anthony Liccione
#60. Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty ... I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
Theodore Roosevelt
#62. Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Charles Churchill
#63. I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice
Walter Scott
#64. Roots never get the appreciation that a flower does, but that doesn't make them envious.
Debasish Mridha
#65. Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic?
Natalie Angier
#66. Never underestimate the power of envy.
Elif Shafak
#67. They envy your youth. You two are like exotic creatures from the land of the young.'
I've never understood all that these-are-the-best-years-of-your-life crap. If this is as good as it gets then I might as well quit now. Let me get to the shimmery oasis of adulthood.
Leanne Hall
#68. Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.
Joseph Epstein
#69. By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
George Bancroft
#70. With the wise man, what he has does not cease to be enjoyable because some one else has something else. Envy, in fact, is one form of vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations
Bertrand Russell
#71. They hate you when your up but they love you when your down that's why i never give a soul my last pound
Blanco Vandam
#72. And I envy the intransigence of my own
Countrymen who shoot to kill and never
See the victim's face become their own
Or find his motive sabotage their motives.
Louis MacNeice
#73. Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.
Eubie Blake
#74. Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.
Bertrand Russell
#76. A missionary deals with all the important people of the community, but he is never really one of them.
Henry R. Luce
#77. Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate.
Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
#78. Envy and jealousy are very harmful because you are never ever satisfied with what you have and you never reflect on what you have. You constantly live your life on what you do not have.
Tsem Tulku
#79. Whether the Eisenhower administration has underestimated the American people's interest in space exploration or Truman never full appreciated MacArthur, the Soviet Union's Sputnik program has created a public spectacle that even Disney and von Braun might envy.
Ken Hollings
#80. I love a massage and a bath. I don't drink - I'll have a sip, but I've never been drunk - and I don't smoke. I envy people who have those releases. They just have a drink or a cigarette, and they feel better. I have to brave it through the whole day on my own.
Jennifer Lopez
#81. Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.
Martin Amis
#82. Unfortunately, I'll need to watch them again at some point, because my mind keeps straying back to reality. I envy Deo's ability to lose himself in fantasy for a while. That type of break seems almost as useful as sleep for keeping stress at bay, and I've never really mastered it.
Rysa Walker
#85. Ty is green but never with envy. Best of all, he's usually available to help move a heavy piece of furniture.
John Hopkins
#86. Envy, slothful vice,
Never makes its way in lofty characters,
But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls
Close to the ground.
Ovid
#87. Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.
Anthony Liccione
#88. I need you to kiss me." I've never heard that voice come from between her lips - it's lust. And it makes me envy every guy whose ears it ever fell upon before mine.
Kim Holden
#89. Never envy someone! Envy is bad karma and karma is a bitch ;)
Maria N.
#90. I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.
Sylvester Stallone
#91. Envy and greed always - always - exact a terrible price. I have never met an envious or greedy person who was at peace.
Billy Graham
#92. A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.
Mary Baker Eddy
#93. I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell - you know, I can't wait to tell you what happened the other day. It comes tumbling out and maybe then they go back and refine. I kind of envy that way of working, but I just have never done it.
Amy Hempel
#94. Never surround yourself with people who are envious of your ambitions. Decide to be at the right place at the right time and save yourself for greater opportunities.
Israelmore Ayivor
#95. A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty - and, by which definition, a philosopher - dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.
Tom Stoppard
#96. 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
#97. We never envy another's achievement more than when we know very little about how it was attained.
Alain De Botton
#98. I envy cornerstone in empty deserts, because they are themselves, and for the same reason I envy rocks in the hills, where man has never set foot, and trees in the valleys that man has ever seen.
Orhan Pamuk
#99. I envy the man to snatch him up. This will be the only time in life I'm siding with Freud and experiencing 'penis envy'. There will never be a repeat. Can't be associated with too much crazy, I'm juggling enough on my own.
Ambrosea Brown
#100. Lord, there has never been a human society without overweening pride at the top and bitter envy at the bottom. That is why if the "have-nots" ever overthrow the "haves" they become the same.
Timothy Keller