Quotes About Envy

Who knows, my lady?" he said. "Maybe one day when you're a grown woman, your beauty will make Zeus himself fall in love with you and put your image up there as well, for us ordinary men to see and envy." "I can think of better reasons to end up among the stars," I said, smiling at such harmless flattery.

I'll never call you 'girl' again," Argus said to me. "A woman twice your age would envy your cunning!" "If I were still 'Glaucus,' you'd say I was smart or clever, not cunning," I chided him. "Pfff! What does one little word matter?" "So you won't mind if I call the Argo a ferryboat?" I replied sweetly.

When our goals become comparative, we end up with the constant paranoia of an existence of always being weighed on hidden scales, living with the stress of keeping our elbows out in anticipation of others trying to get ahead of us. All of this is a distortion of the wisdom of achievement, which lies hidden within the emotional energy of jealousy and envy.

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

My mother was accursed the night she bore me,and I am faint with envy of all the dead.

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise.

I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.

It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America.

It makes you hungry every time you see another team celebrate a championship.

The grass is always greener around the fire hydrant.

If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

But the eyes of jealousy are very sharp, and Hera saw them.

The Root of evil Avarice, That damn ill-natur'd baneful vice, Was slave to Prodigality, That Noble Sin; whilst Luxury Employ'd a Million of the Poor, And odious Pride a Million more. Envy it self, and Vanity Were Ministers of Industry; Their darling Folly, Fickleness In Diet, Furniture, and Dress, That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made The very Wheel, that turn'd the Trade.

she would watch with glee as Rain was relegated to standing in her shoes; Easter hoped to God they pinched.

Jealousy and envy are just like anger," she said. "The most hurt you're doing is to yourself.

When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books.

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.

Consider this- many times people on the other side of the fence are admiring how green your grass is!

Barack Obama has a vision of American greatness based not just on our unmatched military might, but on our economic, intellectual, and moral strengths. They were once the envy of the world. They can be again

There must be a bad chromosome somewhere in man that urges him to wound that which he can't conquer, deface that which is more beautiful, misunderstand and befoul the work of another.

I can now admit that most of my troubles stem from one large and glaring defect: self-centeredness. For how can I wallow in self-pity, weep over resentments, be sick with righteous anger, ache with envy, and tense up with fears and anxieties unless all my thoughts are exclusively on poor me?