Best 1090 quotes in «envy quotes» category

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.

Jealousy is the fire of envy that seeks to destroy another's beauty, rather than to create its own.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!

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

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got

Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.

Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.

Jealousy is beautiful only on a young and ardent face. After the first wrinkles, trust must return.

Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.

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

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.

Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us.

Jimmy had been full of himself back then, thinks Snowman with indulgence and a little envy. He’d been unhappy too, of course. It went without saying, his unhappiness. He’d put a lot of energy into it.

Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

Kindness, love, patience, understanding, and unity will increase as we serve, while intolerance, jealousy, envy, greed, and selfishness decrease or disappear. The more we give of ourselves, the more our capacity to serve, understand, and love will grow.

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

Let’s face it: There are people who won’t be happy when you get too blessed. There are people who feel threatened by your success. There are people who, out of envy, will just not like you anymore.

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.

Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.

Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can…. The art world is high school with money.

Man's envy is at its most intense where all are almost equal; his calls for redistribution are loudest when there is virtually nothing to redistribute.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

Men not only don't get what's important about what women are capable of, but in fact they fear it, and envy it, and want to throw stones at it, because it's the thing they can't have.

Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.

Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy.

More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

More important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy.

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.

Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure. Then I get bitter: I am not loved enough to be supported. That I am not a burden has to compensate for the sad envy when I look at women loved enough to be supported. Even now China wraps double binds around my feet.

No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.

Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace.

No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfillment.

No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.