Quotes About Envy

Those who are power hungry—tyrannical and cruel, even psychopathic—desire control over others so that every selfish whim of hedonism can be immediately gratified; so that envy can destroy its target; so that resentment can find its expression. But good people are ambitious (and diligent, honest, and focused along with it) instead because they are possessed by the desire to solve genuine, serious problems.

Quizá, si viviéramos como habría que vivir, no tendríamos problemas en reconocer nuestro carácter frágil y mortal, sin caer en el victimismo ofuscado que genera primero resentimiento, luego envidia y, finalmente, deseo de venganza y destrucción.

Desde el fondo de mi corazón, esta noche estrellada, pienso mucho en ti y envidio lo que te espera...»

A naides tengás envidia: es muy triste el envidiar; cuando veás a otro ganar, a estorbarlo no te metas: cada lechón en su teta es el modo de mamar.

La envidia y la emulación parientes dicen que son; aunque en todo diferentes al fin también son parientes el diamante y el carbón.

al que toma el camino de las cumbres, los envidiosos le carcomen la reputación con saña malévola;

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow;

For a moment I envied them their religion. They were lucky to have something they could all believe in together.

Of all the seven deadly sins, only Envy is no fun at all.

that envy and a sense of injustice are not always that easily distinguished, let alone extricated, one from the other.

It is difficult to be ambitious without also being envious.

The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.

There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.

There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person.

But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann. [G. W. Richmann died from being hit by lightning, which he had been investigating.]

I look at what I have and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy

It took a special spirit, he thought, not to begrudge her brother's triumph.

I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.

So I remained stuck at school. I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.

I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.

Selfishness, hatred, envy, jealousy, greed, self-indulgence, laziness and pride were all anti-life. Love, heroism, self-sacrifice, sympathy, mercy, integrity and creative faith, on the other hand, were the essence of life, turning mere existence into living in its truest sense. These were the gifts of God to men. With

Selfishness, hatred, envy, jealousy, greed, self-indulgence, laziness and pride were all anti-life. Love, heroism, self-sacrifice, sympathy, mercy, integrity and creative faith, on the other hand, were the essence of life, turning mere existence into living in its truest sense. These were the gifts of God to men.

Envy, Doña Lola had once said, eats at you from the inside and turns your eyes green when you look at the person of whom you're jealous.