Top 100 Quotes About Envy
#1. Do not envy the success of any person. But set your goal on a successful guy. Then this will make you succeed.
Fahim Khan
#2. 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
#3. Most people gawked at her because of her exotic appearance or stared with envy at her beauty. However, he always looked at her in a studious way, as if he was trying to piece her together like she was a marble puzzle. A statue he was constructing from parts of her abstract soul.
Sarah Noffke
#4. Envy the fire, for it is either going or not. Fires do not feel happy, sad, angry. They burn, or they do not burn.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#5. The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
Thomas Sowell
#6. Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.
Walter Savage Landor
#7. Go little book, thy self present, As child whose parent is unkent: To him that is the president Of noblesse and of chivalry, And if that Envy bark at thee, As sure it will, for succour flee.
Edmund Spenser
#8. Knowledge forbidden?
Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord
Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know?
Can it be death?
John Milton
#10. Crowds most envy the lonely man who walks confidently as if he is walking with the great crowds!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#11. Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever unforgotten
here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.
Thucydides
#12. A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.
Samuel Johnson
#13. Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself ...
Joe McMahon
#14. Do not the spirits who dwell in the ether envy man his pain?
Kahlil Gibran
#15. If women envy men, we can now see that it's because of the privileges their anatomy confers and not the anatomy itself.
Martha Roth
#16. We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.
Karl A. Menninger
#18. You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to ... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.
Henry Louis Gates
#19. Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.
Pythagoras
#21. The fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch foul slanders against their betters and to offer them up as victims to the evil deity of popular envy.
Plutarch
#23. There's a simplicity and a sense of adventure to being alone, and I sometimes envy you for having it, as you explore Paris. Even when you're getting your heart broken, you can still wake up and not know what's going to happen next.
Jessica Pan
#24. Perhaps the measure of the best art is that it does not excite envy.
Norman Mailer
#25. I live my life, breathless ... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!
Eric Burdon
#26. 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
#27. I admire but don't envy people who have children and also have big, wonderful perfect houses. Maybe Martha Stewart could do it; to me those two things aren't compatible, but I know our children will grow up with a feeling that home is a place of comfort.
Audra McDonald
#28. As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy.
Robert Kuttner
#29. I don't want to drain what little energy I have on hate, on envy, on blame. I'll need every last drop to better myself, so I can make what little impact I can in this world.
Katelyne Parker
#30. The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!
Harold Feinstein
#32. Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#33. Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.
Jonathan Sacks
#34. Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
Bainbridge Colby
#35. Whether as a radical student, a community organizer or a far left politician, Barack Obama's ideology has been based on a vision of the Haves versus the Have Nots ... Obama's ideology is an ideology of envy, resentment, and payback.
Thomas Sowell
#36. Edward was now expressing himself on the subject of the French King, drawing upon a vocabulary that a Southwark brothel-keeper might envy. Some of what he was saying was anatomically impossible, much of it was true and all of it envenomed.
Sharon Kay Penman
#37. 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
#38. Envy asks, "Why them? Why do they get what I don't have?" Gratitude asks, "Why me? Why do I get all that I have?" David
Rick Warren
#39. Envy is a much natural byproduct when your childhood isn't the way it is supposed to be
Faraaz Kazi
#40. Envy, like the worm, is always attracted to the fairest apple
Og Mandino
#41. The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
Tennessee Williams
#42. There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.
Edmond De Goncourt
#43. It is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.
Elizabeth Montagu
#44. Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?
Bantu Holomisa
#45. Envy does not allow humanity to sleep.
Carl Jung
#46. The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr," remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. "It is the most contented sound in the world.
L.M. Montgomery
#47. If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.
Horace
#48. Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but reign, and redeem: and without their divine influence spread everywhere, you would be in hell
the hell of your own meanness.
Charlotte Bronte
#49. And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on the train and whom we admire and want to help along. And we'll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts.
Andre Aciman
#50. Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
Honore De Balzac
#51. I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.
Chris Wallace
#52. 17Do not let your heart envy sinners, But be zealous for the fear of the LORD all the day; 18For surely there is a hereafter, And your hope will not be cut off.
Anonymous
#53. I was the Sumerian god of fertility. You know what that means, don't you? (Sin)
You have a lot of penis envy over the other fertility gods? Don't worry. I won't tell the other gods about your small penis problem. (Kat)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#56. I envy no man's nightingale or spring;
Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme,
Who plainly say, My God, My King.
George Herbert
#57. So bless me then, you tranquil eye that can behold even the greatest happiness without envy!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#58. The woman I was seems hopelessly naive. I envy her.
Lisa Unger
#59. Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter.
Curtis Jackson
#60. I'm just being me ... Success is more than just a wish or desire; it's a behavior. A byproduct of living this way is that I consistently draw the envy of haters while also disappointing those who have bet against me. But that's just me ... Unapologetically driven.
Steve Maraboli
#61. How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
Honore De Balzac
#62. Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of the private sector.
Nina Easton
#63. Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
Camille Paglia
#64. Every time you envy someone you use a muscle in your face to disadvantage. If you do it only once or twice, it can be erased. But over a period of years, those muscles will tighten your mouth, narrow your eyes, and help destroy your attractiveness.
Arlene Dahl
#65. Envy, as distasteful as it is, has seeped into my mind on rare occasions, and those I've envied, although few in number, have only been those that live a life of leisure with peace of mind and time to do such wonderful things as read.
Donna Lynn Hope
#66. In moments of high emotion, whether they're triggered by anger or envy, humiliation or resentment, if the next thing you are going to say makes you feel better, than it's probably the wrong thing to say.
Amor Towles
#67. The closest of friendships contain the mysterious spark of attraction and connection as well as drama, tension, envy, sacrifice, and love. For some, it's the highest form of love there is.
Carlin Flora
#68. Hate is love on fire, set out to burn like a flare on the side of the road. It says, stop here. Something terrible has happened. Envy is like, the skin you're in burns. And the salve is someone else's skin.
Alexander Chee
#69. You can't write well with only the nice parts of your character, and only about nice things. And I don't want even to try anymore. I want to use everything, including hate and envy and lust and fear.
Alison Lurie
#71. You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever he grieves.
Maximus The Confessor
#72. When jealousy stings your enemies' minds,
they have many sorrows.
When envy stings your enemies' hearts,
they have numerous sorrows.
When hatred stings your enemies' souls,
they have countless sorrows.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#73. OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.
Ambrose Bierce
#74. The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God
Jerry Bridges
#75. There are thousands ready to die for their religion, but only are few willing to live by its principles. Because of their narrow vision and envy, they have missed the true essence and message of religion which is love and compassion.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#76. It is certain that many intellectuals envy the higher income of prosperous businessmen and that these feelings drive them toward socialism. They believe that the authorities of a socialist commonwealth would pay them higher salaries than those that they earn under capitalism.
Ludwig Von Mises
#77. Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
Thomas Browne
#78. Newton found that a star, examined through a glass tarnished by smoke, was diminished into a speck of light. But no smoke ever breathed so thick a mist as envy or detraction.
Robert Aris Willmott
#79. To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.
Benno C. Schmidt Jr.
#80. In Two Parts You come and go so easily, your life is as you knew - while mine is split in two. How I envy so the half of me, who lived before love's due, who was yet to know of you.
Lang Leav
#81. We are the wise. Do not envy us - We who are too wise to draw near the fire Lest we get burned; We who are too wise to love Lest love should vanish and we be hurt. We are the wise. Do not envy us our wisdom - We who are too wise to live Lest we should die.
Lois Duncan
#82. A turtle doesn't have to decide every morning whether to keep on bothering, it just carries on. Maybe that's why man kills everything: envy.
Russell Hoban
#83. A miniaturist creates his art by heeding his conscience and by obeying the principles in which he believes, fearing nothing. he pays no attention to what his enemies, the zealots and those who envy him have to say.
Orhan Pamuk
#84. Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness.
Baha'u'llah
#85. It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.
Napoleon Hill
#86. Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.
Sarah Churchwell
#87. Envy, like fire, soars upward.
Livy
#88. He crawled on across the farmyard, keeping as low as he could, but trying to watch every direction, too. He had never thought he would envy an earthworm.
Robert Jordan
#89. The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'
Plato
#90. The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.
Jerry Costello
#91. Resentment and gratitude cannot coexist, since resentment blocks the perception and experience of life as a gift. My resentment tells me that I don't receive what I deserve. It always manifests itself in envy.
Henri Nouwen
#92. Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with a real sense of being mutually indispensable, with sudden peaks of solidarity in spite of envy, jealousy and the whole inevitable cohort of bad feelings.
Elena Ferrante
#93. Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.
Robert Breault
#94. plus a porch that runs along three sides of the house. I told Ma once the Howards had a room just for company, a room just for books, and a room just for plants, and she said that was three rooms too many. First time I ever saw any envy in my ma. David
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#95. For some reason, the strength and deadliness he keeps so easily leashed make him the most compelling man I've ever met. I envy his self-control.
Amanda Bouchet
#96. I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
Samuel Johnson
#97. Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement,in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.
Jacques D'Amboise
#98. One-third of the world, it has been said, may be free- -but one-third is the victim of cruel repression
and the other one- third is rocked by the pangs of poverty, hunger and envy. More energy is released by the awakening of these new nations than by the fission of the atom itself.
John F. Kennedy
#99. I sit and reach for the computer.
I look at its battery.
I envy how often it dies.
Spencer Madsen
#100. The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.
Filippo Brunelleschi
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