Best 1090 quotes in «envy quotes» category

What's wrong with people is people. There's no cure for that.

When an eagle spreads its wings to fly, even the swan is envious.

When blowing out someone’s candle you risk blowing out your own.

Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persuade herself that it was no advantage at all, but a drawback, and would pity so as not to have to envy them.

Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty. Be that lotus flower always. Do not allow any negativity or ugliness in your surroundings destroy your confidence, affect your growth, or make you question your self-worth.

When I realize that God makes his gifts fit each person, there's no way I can covet what you got because it just wouldn't fit me.

When people try to bury you, remind yourself you are a seed.

When people try to pull you down, remember, they had to look up to do so.

When reaching for the stars, beware of those who want to cut off your hands.

When some men fail to accomplish what they desire to do they exclaim angrily, “May the whole world perish!” This repulsive emotion is the pinnacle of envy, whose implication is “If I cannot have something, no one can have anything, no one is to be anything!

When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.

When the sun rises it casts a shadow on what does not shine as bright as it.

When they fail to kill your genius, they try to assassinate your character.

When they judge you, yawn. When they misunderstand you, smile. When they underestimate you, laugh. When they condemn you, ignore. When they envy you, rejoice. When they oppose you, prevail.

When they try to judge you, remember, they themselves are judged. When they try to condemn you, remember, they themselves are condemned. When they try to break you, remember, they themselves are broken. When they try to hurt you, remember, they themselves are hurting.

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.

When all seems to be against you, remember, a ship sometimes has to sail against the current, not with it.

When your critics raise hell keep building your heaven.

When you understand who you are by knowing what God created you to do, you have no room for becoming jealous over what someone else is doing.

When you begin to walk your own journey, to have your own unique conversation, you will naturally stop feeling envious of others. Not because you’ll realize your desires are different from theirs, but because they are so similar. You’ll discover the difference between doing well and pretending to do well, between being happy and pretending to be happy, between healthy relationships and staged ones. You’ll see just how many obstacles lie on any path. You’ll realize that it takes the same amount of effort to work on building up the quality of the conversations in your life as it does to broadcast to the public, constantly, that those conversations are already perfect. You can either build up the mask or build up the authentic self. And you, brave and beautiful you, will make the right choice eventually. Be it now or on your deathbed. We all realize soon enough.

Whoever envies you is secretly convinced he is inferior to you.

Why compare yourself to others? You never know what people have endured to get where they are.

Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?

Why do you compare yourself to others? Can you carry weight of others on your shoulders?

Why waste your strength envying and hating instead of loving?

Wings can only fly as long as the bird flies Soul blackens when you put on vestment of lies White candle wax cries for ignitable wick Jealous people burn to make your heart feel sick

Work while they talk, strive while they mock, persevere while they jeer, succeed while they hate.

While some of us burned on the edges of life, insatiable and straining to see more deeply in, he sat complacently at the centre and let life come to him — so much of it, evidently, that he could not keep track of his appointments.

Wherever you see conspiracy, search for fear and envy there! Whenever you see conspiracy, know that fear and envy is around!

Worry soils, even the purest mind. Envy poisons, even the purest heart. Greed sullies, even the purest soul.

You can curse the sun a thousand times, but cannot keep it from shining, even for a day.

You can feel anything. All is free for you to feel. But I guarantee you that if you allow yourself to feel envy and then to swim in it, that envy will destroy you and the people around you. Envy is unlike anger. Envy is not a right wing nor a left wing, it is not on either end of the balancing beam. Nobody needs it and I can assure you that once you give yourself to it, you will be eaten up. Envy can even eat up nations, casting them up against each other and pull a whole nation down into an internal collapse.

You can make a difference, wherever you are. It begins with a decision and defined purpose.

You can't ever be your heroes, but you can love their gifts.

You are not remembered for who you pull down, but who you lift up.

You create silent enemies by revealing how much God had blessed you. There are people who are unhappy about your success and your big dreams are just too heavy for them to bear, so they will try to break you into pieces. Extinguishers of dreams are everywhere, and you can decode them by their nosy attitude towards your affairs. That is why its pertinent to keep few friends, talk less about yourself, and focus on other things pretending as if you don't exist. It doesn't make you faded or out of life, but the chances of getting your prospects destroyed will be very slim.

You don’t see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can.

You have not accomplished anything significant if no one envies you.

You have to stop worrying about whether people like you. Some people don't even like themselves.

You need to have really wasted your life to envy the young for being young.

Your dreams come crushing down when you tow the wrong path by looking at what others are doing. The Milky Way Galaxy would have been crushed down by now if each planet had left its own orbit to revolve elsewhere!

You were given fingers to count your own blessings, not someone else's.

A beautiful woman peers out her window, as full of envy as the harridan who peers up at her from the street.

You become strong by lifting others up, not pulling them down.

You go above and beyond them: but the higher you climb, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. And he who flies is hated most of all.

You jerk, I'll have your badge for this." "That's the second time you've said that to me. Sounds to me like you have a pretty serious case of badge envy.

You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of other people's opinions of you.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self.

After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.