Top 34 Quotes About Not Envying Others
#1. Tom Sawyer the Pirate looked around upon the envying juveniles about him and confessed in his heart that this was the proudest moment of his life.
Mark Twain
#2. Instead of envying what others have, decide what YOU want out of life and focus on achieving it.
Beverly Engel
#3. We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
Jean Rostand
#4. There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.
Jean De La Bruyere
#5. A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess. I know no one worth my envying him.
Czeslaw Milosz
#7. We must not, then, aspire to please the multitude. For we do not practice what will please them, but what we know is remote from their disposition. "Let us not be desirous of vainglory," says the apostle, "provoking one another, envying one another.
Clement Of Alexandria
#8. I said to myself: 'You mean all those people out there that I've been envying because they're not afraid to move ahead with their lives have really been afraid? Why didn't somebody tell me!?' I guess I never asked.
Susan Jeffers
#9. I pass through this people and keep mine eyes open: they do not forgive me for do not envying their virtues. They bite at me, because I say unto them that for small people, small virtues are necessary - and because it is hard for me to understand that small people are necessary!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#10. In pleasant peace and security
How suddenly the soul in a man begins to die
He shall look up above the stalled oxen
Envying the cruel falcon,
And dig under the straw for a stone
To bruise himself on.
Robinson Jeffers
#11. I love print fiction, but sometimes when I'm reading a good graphic novel or manga, I find myself envying those who work in an illustrated format.
Jane Lindskold
#12. INSECURITY breeds JEALOUSY / JEALOUSY creates ENVY / ENVY causes self-destruction / a hater is made up of all three. Just remember you are an opportunity away from being hated on yourself!
Carlos Wallace
#13. My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends' December decorating options.
Susan Isaacs
#14. But I was born in the image of God, a man, a creator, with power of life and death, a father, blessed with the gift of the seed of Adam, a sower of seed, to bring forth generations of new life.
This I was, and envying a kettle.
Richard Llewellyn
#15. people will envy you, for not envying them.
Amir Nasaar
#16. Envying another's beauty will diminish your own. But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens.
Daisaku Ikeda
#17. 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
#18. Contentment can only be found in not envying others or comparing yourself to them but in being satisfied with what you have.
Larry Herzberg
#19. Our focus should be on making the most of our own lives, regardless of whether we start at the bottom or the top- not on envying the advantages and achievements of others.
Yaron Brook
#20. I had considered envying men before
I pretend to envy things like their higher incidence of ungrounded confidence and monomania
but I don't really envy those things, and I'm not sure I even believe in them
but this, the covert-baby-having thing, was the first real thing.
Rivka Galchen
#21. What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
Abraham Cowley
#23. The more you come to admire God's wisdom and believe in his love and kindness to each of us, the freer you will be from envying those with more faith and stronger gifts and from feeling superior to those what are weaker than you.
Barbara R. Duguid
#24. How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods
Paul Claudel
#25. How do you wish to live in lifetime existence; envying, hating and loving? It is better to live life loving
Lailah Gifty Akita
#26. It was only recently that Isabelle had realized other girls weren't just for envying, avoiding, or disliking.
Cassandra Clare
#27. One way of keeping your dreams alive is to keep it to yourself. It can save you and protect your dreams to a greater extent.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#28. Mahtab looked out of the window at the moon clearing the rooftops, bathing everything around in its silver light. She sighed, envying Nasim's freedom. For just like Mahtab's namesake, as the moonlight was beholden to the sun, she was beholden to her family.
Azin Sametipour
#29. A hundred pounds! He couldn't remember ever having seen a hundred pounds, all at one time. He found himself envying his father, who had nothing to worry about except the future of mankind.
John Mortimer
#30. Don't hate on someone whose hard work placed them on the road to success, while your envy and ill-intent put you on a path toward failure.
Carlos Wallace
#31. Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
Andre Gide
#32. Perhaps that is the only cure for jealousy, to realize that the people we resent and envy for having what we lack, probably have wounds
and scars of their own. They may even be envying us.
Harold S. Kushner
#33. I remember being mad about having pink and red shoes. I gew up envying other girls' pink and red shoes.
Miuccia Prada
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