Best 1090 quotes in «envy quotes» category

Dead men may envy living mites in cheese, Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys, And subdivide, and never come to death.

Despite some struggles of our own, Americas business and economic system remains the envy of much of the world.

Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe; averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage.

Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror, envy and nostalgia, and only a little to the critical understanding of the social world.

Do I envy Madonna’s body? Yes. Do I thank God that she has it? Yes! If you’re fifty-something and you look like Madonna, and you put a lifetime’s work in the way you look, then flash it to the world!

Do not envy those who seem to be naturally gifted; it is often a curse, as such types rarely learn the value of diligence and focus, and they pay for this later in life.

Do not neglect to bring your revolver, Russell. It may be needed, and it does us no good in your drawer with that disgusting cheese." "My lovely Stilton; it's almost ripe, too. I do hope Mr. Thomas enjoys it." "Any riper and it will eat through the woodwork and drop into the room below." "You envy me my educated tastes." "That I will not honour with a response. Get out the door, Russell.

Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect.

Don't envy the harvest of the rich. Envy their planting.

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.

Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility , because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist.

Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.

Drop jealousy and envy, for they make you ugly. Be loving, be accepting, and most of all... be happy just the way you are.

Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.

Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.

Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him.

Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.

Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.

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.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.

Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned

Envy, like flames, soars upwards.

Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.

Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning.

Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.

Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are.

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

Envy derives from insecurity.

Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.

Envy is a kind of praise.

Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.

Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.

Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity - Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.

Envy, like the worm, is always attracted to the fairest apple

Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".

Envy, slothful vice, Never makes its way in lofty characters, But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls Close to the ground.

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.

Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor.

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.[or you will create disappointment and envy, as every other person has something, small or large, better than you. Remember at these times what you have rather than what you don't and be grateful]