Envy Quotes - Page 3

Insecurity creates ditches for others and oneself as well.

I'm not equipped to handle what she has, both good and bad and what she has is always a package deal of both. In other words, I've been assigned a load I can handle.

Lysa TerKeurst

There they were, the movers and shakers of Benjamin Franklin Hight - the sports stars, the cheerleaders, the good, the great, the gorgeous - bent over their pizzas.Trish sensed my angst and said, "My mother says girls like Lisa Shooty get the ultimate curse known to man.""What's that?""Too much too soon."I looked at poor, cursed Lisa who had been sprayed with sex appeal at birth. She had gleaming teeth and long, raven-black curls. She threw back her head and laughed with diamond-studded joy."When do you think the curse takes effect?" I asked."Not in our lifetime," Trish answered.

Joan Bauer

Envy expresses itself through condemnation. The louder the condemnation the greater the envy.

Marty Rubin

Envy suggests inferiority.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

George Eliot

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Carrie Fisher

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Envy, as distasteful as it is, has seeped into my mind on rare occasions, and those I've envied, although few in number, have only been those that live a life of leisure with peace of mind and time to do such wonderful things as read.

Donna Lynn Hope

It’s okay to glance at the light of another. But when you look to long, it will blind you from seeing your own.

Charles F. Glassman

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

Criss Jami

Eugène Ney Terre’Blanche is the man who had such a long record of infamy the devil would be blue with envy.

Dauglas Dauglas

The sudden, painful flare of envy caught me by surprise. I was a loner, my last few years in school. I could have done with a friend like that.

Tana French

Those who envy the success of others are normally ignorant to the sacrafices, failures, and dedication that it took for them to get there

Noel DeJesus

Whatever worldly thing we may covet - zealously striving to obtain and then retain - never seems to bring an end to our desires. Covetousness, envy, jealousy, and greed always escalate into a vicious spiral, as we seek greater and greater gratification but find less and less contentment. . . . Striving to acquire the things of the world not only does not bring lasting happiness and peace, but it drives us to seek more. When "all we've ever wanted" is grounded in the temporal trappings of this world, it is never enough!

Brent Top

Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.

Lao Tzu

I've always looked on criticism as a sort of envious tribute.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey. A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful song at the intrusion of an annoying woodpecker.

Suzy Kassem

Envy is admiration laced with resentment.

Matshona Dhliwayo

There is no greater beast than envy, no greater thief than fear, no greater enemy than greed, no greater predator than wrath, and no greater poison than bitterness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head.

W.P. Kinsella

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Malachy McCourt

It's always funny that you can try and try again to steal all your critics' ammo, predict their responses, but no matter what, they'll still have a water gun stashed somewhere.

Criss Jami

They all laughed when I said I'd become a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.

Bob Monkhouse

If you choose to be fearless, then be fearlessly authentic not an imitation of someone you envy.

Shannon L. Alder

If girls could spit venom, it'd be through their eyes.

S.D. Lawendowski

Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realise how widespread envy was.

Alexander McCall Smith

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

The legend of our times, it has been suggested, might be "The Revenge of Failure". This is what Envy has done for us. If we cannot paint well, we will destroy the canons of painting and pass ourselves off as painters. If we will not take the trouble to write poetry, we will destroy the rules of prosody and pass ourselves off as poets. If we are not inclined to the rigors of an academic discipline, we will destroy the standards of that discipline and pass ourselves off as graduates. If we cannot or will not read, we will say that "linear thought" is now irrelevant and so dispense with reading. If we cannot make music, we will simply make a noise and persuade others that it is music. If we can do nothing at all, why! we will strum a guitar all day, and call it self-expression. As long as no talent is required, no apprenticeship to a skill, everyone can do it, and we are all magically made equal. Envy has at least momentarily been appeased,and failure has had its revenge.

Henry Fairlie

Envy, bleating 'I'm as good as you', is the hotbed of Fascism.

C.S. Lewis

Neither compares nor competes.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A missionary deals with all the important people of the community, but he is never really one of them.

Henry R. Luce

Try to resist copying a blueprint from another person's ministry.

Beth Moore

Socialism is politicized envy.

Rousas John Rushdoony

The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.

John Berger

True artists unburden their envies and work toward encouraging amateurs.

Aniruddha Sastikar

She was resilientA brave soldier when life tested herIt didn't matter that she did strange thingslike stand tall under the rainletting the drops kiss her skinthinking the storm was romanticIt was hard to quiet hernot that you would want towhen she spoke, it was captivatingHer heart was like a candlewarm and delicatejust what you needed during darknessSometimes, she'd go off and explore the worldtest her limitslaugh too muchcry when humans were cruelIt wasn't hard to see why people envied herYou'd come to realize she was a lionand she could not be tamed.

M.J. Abraham

We never envy another's achievement more than when we know very little about how it was attained.

Alain de Botton

Don’t hold back because you’re afraid of hurting someone else. If your best friend wants to be a cheerleader and you make the team but she doesn’t, don’t feel guilty. If you end up earning more than your sister, it’s not a betrayal. Your success might be an inspiration for someone else, while limiting yourself to avoid upsetting the balance doesn’t help anyone. Equally, rather than being paralysed by jealousy when someone else is coming out on top, use it to spur you on to greater things. Some of our best achievements will be triggered by envy at seeing someone else fulfilling our secret ambitions.

Rosie Blythe

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Theodore Roosevelt

The demand for equality has two sources; one of them is among the noblest, the other is the basest, of human emotions. The noble source is the desire for fair play. But the other source is the hatred of superiority. At the present moment it would be very unrealistic to overlook the importance of the latter.

C.S. Lewis

Roses do not take beauty advice from weeds.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Do not hold grudges against those who try to keep you down; the higher you go, the smaller they become. Do not trust those who try to push you down once you are up;the more envious they are, the more dangerous they become.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

he was so obsessed by the action in front of him that he had no awareness of the growing reaction to his performance.

David Halberstam

He beat me when you not here, I say.Who do, she say, Albert?Mr ____, I say.I can't believe it, she say. She sit down on the bench next to me real hard, like she drop.What he beat you for? she ast.For being me and not you.

Alice Walker

It is not the fault of the stars that they shine brightly, but the fault of our eyes that they cannot handle light.

Matshona Dhliwayo

He who don’t know what envy can do shall always do what envy can do

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Honoring the value of competence and steadfastness requires a generosity of spirit and a curbing of the passion for envy, traits that few people value and fewer still cultivate and acquire. Not until there is more of Smith and less of Hobbes in the human heart, will the majority of people prefer peaceful and boring market relations to the violent and exciting relations between coercer and coerced, predator and victim

Thomas Szasz

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Envy is a much natural byproduct when your childhood isn’t the way it is supposed to be

Faraaz Kazi

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

Those who envy you inadvertently admit to being inferior to you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

Do you know, I sometimes, catch myself wishing that I too were blind to the facts of life and only knew its fancies and illusions. They're wrong, all wrong, of course, and contrary to reason; but in the face of them my reason tells me, wrong and most wrong, that to dream and live illusions gives greater delight. And after all, delight is the wage for living. Without delight living is a worthless act. To labor at living and be unpaid is worse than to be dead. He who delights the most lives the most, and your dreams and unrealities are less disturbing to you and more gratifying than are my facts to me. I often doubt, I often doubt, the worthwhileness of reason. Dreams must be more substantial and satisfying. Emotional delight is more filling and lasting than intellectual delight by having the blues. Emotional delight is followed by no more than jaded senses which speedily recuperate. I envy you, I envy you

Jack London

It's silly to think the left eye would envy the right or that one foot would be jealous of the other, and yet so often it is the case.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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