Envy Quotes - Page 7

what terrifies me most is how wefoam at the mouth with envywhen others succeedbut sigh in reliefwhen they are failingour struggle tocelebrate each other iswhat's proven most difficultin being human

Rupi Kaur

...the pleasures of the world are chiefly folly, and the business of it mostly knavery, and both nothing better than vanity; the men of pleasure tearing one another to pieces from the emulation of spending money, and the men of business from envy in getting it.

Henry Fielding

The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?

Mahatma Gandhi

Spend one more day in pursuit of art that only you can produce, and somewhere, someone is envying your courage to do just that.

Teresa R. Funke

People who copy you will always be one step behind.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

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

Israelmore Ayivor

Be discerning with rumors on leaders, for most are birthed by the envy of the idle or the desperation of the defeated.

Orrin Woodward

...There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man's words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets to the point where he can simply say, 'The sky is blue,' and people indignantly rush up trying to refute him saying, 'No, the sky is light blue,' then, whether they realize it or not, he has become an authority figure even to such adversaries.

Criss Jami

Wings can only flyas long as the bird flies Soul blackens when you put on vestment of lies White candle wax criesfor ignitable wickJealous people burnto make your heart feel sick

Munia Khan

Waste no time to compare yourself with others. Find your soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Let us not believe that an external fast from visible food alone can possibly be sufficient for perfection of heart and purity of body unless with it there has also been united a fast of the soul. For the soul also has its foods that are harmful. Slander is its food and indeed one that is very dear to it. A burst of anger also supplies it with miserable food for an hour and destroys it as well with its deadly savor. Envy is food of the mind, corrupting it with its poisonous juices and never ceasing to make it wretched and miserable at the prosperity and success of another. Vanity is its food which gratifies the mind with a delicious meal for a time but afterward strips it clear and bare of all virtue. Then vanity dismisses it barren and void of all spiritual fruit. All lust and shift wanderings of heart are a sort of food for the soul, nourishing it on harmful meats but leaving it afterwards without a share of its heavenly bread and really solid food. If then, with all the powers we have, we abstain from these in a most holy fast our observance of the bodily fast will be both useful and profitable.

John Cassian

There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

William P. Smith

Female competition is when you are with a guy you like and you look around, see a girl who is prettier than you standing nearby, and think to yourself: "I wish she wasn't here." -This is what happens when you attach your identity and sense of worth to the amount of male attention you receive.

Miya Yamanouchi

Each person you admire is simply a reminder of your own latent excellence, your own unacknowledged beauty.

Vironika Tugaleva

Sometimes it's hard to look at a flower, when your dying inside.

Anthony Liccione

The vain woman spent fortunes seeking out astrologers, sorcerers, and magicians who would concoct spells and potions to preserve her beauty and help her remain looking young--but envy is hard to cover.

Camron Wright

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.

Shannon L. Alder

The way you think about yourself determines your reality. You are not being hurt by the way people think about you. Many of those people are a reflection of how you think about yourself.

Shannon L. Alder

[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It's just like the crow, when it produces white nestlings: it is so stricken by envy, knowing how black it is itself, that it kills its own offspring out of pique.

Moderata Fonte

Smile, just to infuriate those who envy you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

Be like seeds; do not see dirt thrown at you as your enemy, but as ground to grow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The larger the bricks your enemies throw at you the larger the palace you are going to build.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Ignore your haters. Resist your fears. Embrace your dreams.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The louder the dogs bark the less a lion feels threatened.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The greater the fruit a trees bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

To achieve success, ignore doubt; fame, ignore haters; greatness, ignore fear; and immortality, ignore hardship.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is in vain to try and stop a star from rising, even with a ladder.

Matshona Dhliwayo

To avoid enemies, say nothing; to avoid critics, do nothing; to avoid haters, be nothing; but to avoid mediocrity, ignore all.

Matshona Dhliwayo

As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Ignore those who resent you. Avoid those who begrudge you. Excuse those who envy you. Pity those who hate you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A flower in a desert still has no reason to envy a thorn in a rainforest.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A flower does not diminish in beauty, no matter how many weeds envy it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A rose, no matter how beautiful, still has to contend with thorns.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Better an unsung HERO than the source of envy.

Haresh Sippy

Jealousy stings, envy poisons, anger harms, and hate murders.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Don’t try to silence other people’s genius because you’re too deaf to hear your own.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

No one tries to stone a tree whose fruit is not ripe.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Resentment is a powerful and corrosive force, both on the slippery left and the slippery right, and the history of humankind can largely be read as a history of resentment. Aside from a profound philosophy of capital, what we really need is a profound psychology and philosophy of resentment. We must learn to live for ourselves, without reference to the other, and, at the same time, to rise above and beyond ourselves. Or else history will keep repeating itself, and our life will be a living death.

Neel Burton

Some people are each envious of the person they used to be.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I've envied you over the years, carving out a different life for yourself, going where the wind blows you. That takes guts."For the briefest sliver in time, the world shimmered and Sugar saw her life as an enviable jewel: a shining gem radiating energy and possibility that no one but she would ever possess, no matter what its deficiencies.

Sarah-Kate Lynch

Rena noticed me watching it pass. 'You think they don't got problem?' Rena said. 'Everybody got problem. You got me, they got insurance, house payment, Preparation H.' She smiled, baring the part between her two upper teeth. 'We are the free birds. They want to be us.

Janet Fitch

Their doubt is your fuel for dreams. You just have to drive.

Criss Jami

FORKED BRANCHESWe grew up on the same street,You and me.We went to the same schools,Rode the same bus,Had the same friends,And even shared spaghettiWith each other's families.And though our roots belong toThe same tree,Our branches have grownIn different directions.Our tree,Now resembles a thousandOther treesIn a sea of a trillionOther treesWith parallel destiniesAnd similar dreams.You cannot envy the branchThat grows biggerFrom the same seed,And you cannotBlame it on the sun's direction.But you still compare us,As if we're still those twoKids at the parkSlurping down slushies andEating ice cream. Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun (2010)

Suzy Kassem

We grew up on the same street,You and me.We went to the same schools,Rode the same bus,Had the same friends,And even shared spaghettiWith each other's families.And though our roots belong toThe same tree,Our branches have grownIn different directions.Our tree,Now resembles a thousandOther treesIn a sea of a trillionOther treesWith parallel destiniesAnd similar dreams.You cannot envy the branchThat grows biggerFrom the same seed,And you cannotBlame it on the sun's direction.But you still compare us,As if we're still those twoKids at the parkSlurping down slushies andEating ice cream.Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun (2010)

Suzy Kassem

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

Marty Rubin

Those people, who hate you, envy your freedom.

Santosh Kalwar

We're here to work, not to make friends,

Tandec2016

Hate is strong, fear is mighty, jealousy is powerful, but love is invincible.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Jealousy says, “Compete with each other.” Envy says, “Destroy each other.” Empathy says, “Help each other.” Love says, “Empower each other.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Is it odd, my love, that I envy others who have not met you for the intoxication they have yet to experience? Is it odd that I wish to witness you with new eyes so I may have the pleasure of falling for you all over again? I am grateful, so grateful, for knowing the meaning of your various sighs. For being the cause of your ecstatic cries. But, if only for a moment, I wish to let you fall out of my hands so that I may catch you again. You, my love, are the oddity. You are my exception.

Kamand Kojouri

Jealousy is a detestable motive.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Every flower blooms at its own pace.

Suzy Kassem

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