Best 86 quotes in «envious quotes» category

Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.

Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

Envious because I have a heart, Gluttonous because I have a heart, Greedy because I have a heart, Prideful because I have a heart, Slothful because I have a heart, Wrathful because I have a heart, Because I have a heart, I lust for all that you are.

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.

Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.

Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy.

I'm so envious of that genetic wiring that immediately puts a smile on your face. My genetic wiring just puts creases in my eyebrows.

I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone - and this is my biggest satisfaction.

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

I know that I have a lot of friends who are envious of me. But if there is something to be gained, obviously something else has to be lost, right? Lately I miss the things I’ve lost.

I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation.

I never understood the nudity thing. I’m so envious of people who can walk around naked.

It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.

It's okay to be envious - but only of the person you aspire to become.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

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

Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels himself on some level to be inferior, unimportant, and impotent.

Personally, being somewhat envious of Richard's (Thompson) songwriting and guitar playing, it's somewhat satisfying he's not yet achieved household-name status. It serves him right for being so good.

RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.

That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.

Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things.

Satan the envious said with a sigh: Christians know more about their hell than I

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

The envious are not satisfied with equality; they secretly yearn for superiority and revenge. In the French Revolution of 1848, a woman coal-heaver is said to have remarked to a richly dressed lady: 'Yes, madam, everything's going to be equal now; I shall go in silks and you'll carry coal.'

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]

The envious will die, but envy never.

The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant because that you can say well yes, all right, if there is going to be god or gods then you have to admit that they're very at the very least capricious. They're certainly not consistent. They're certainly not all loving.

The silence of the envious is too noisy.

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

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Those who are broad-minded and considerate are like the spring breeze, warm and nurturing, at show touch all being grow. Those who are envious an d cruel are like the snow of the northlands, stilling and freezing, at whose touch all beings die.

Those who object to wit are envious of it.

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

While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future

There is not a hint of one person who was afraid to draw near him [Jesus]. There were those who mocked him. There were those who were envious of him. There were those who misunderstood him. There were those who revered him. But there was not one person who considered him too holy, too divine, or too celestial to touch. There was not one person who was reluctant to approach him for fear of being rejected.

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!

An envious heart can't be original.

When I see other rappers' lyrics of "I don't do what I don't like to do", I feel like it's really cool and there's also an envious side to me about it.

At the bottom of the mountain you have your scoffers and doubters, by midpoint you have your envious and haters, and when you reach to the top you have new friends and family you never met or thought existed.

Be careful what you wish for others, it just might get you.

Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a man is jealous of his own car, house, wardrobe, or salary.

Be careful when shining the light of your success among those with an envious spirit, for there will be no celebration for your success within a robbery.

Don't envy what people have, emulate what they did to have it.

Envy is a less severe form of anger.

Envy yearns to find flaws.

He studied the woman before him, not as lovely as she once was, ordinary in appearance, scarred by living, abandoned by many, breathtakingly to be near and altogether unforgettable. "I have no friends," she spoke forth hauntingly. "I am alone." He couldn't believe it. But then he could for the rare creature near enough to touch was out of their league. She wasn't envied for the shallowness of appearance or the superficiality of status or possessions; she was envied for being uncommon and for possessing indomitable strength, something only a lifetime of suffering could shape.

He who makes $25,000 annually through passive income is more enviable than he who earns $100,000 annually through a salary.