Quotes About Envy

We've got a thing called the 'tall poppy syndrome' in New Zealand, where if anyone is doing really well, it's quite common to try and bring them down - like, cut them down and say, 'You've been to the moon? So what? I mean, plenty of people have been to the moon.'

I don't want to say I was a big Shinya Aoki fan, but it's just that I felt like he got out and was able to do a lot of the tricks that I like to do before I was able to do them. I guess you can say, a little bit jealous in a way that he was making that sort of show before I was.

Some people are gonna hate anything; they're gonna hate when anybody tries to go or do anything, and that's usually the people who don't ever create anything themselves.

Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I'm not training.

I'm a slave to the culture, so I see an Audi, a Denali, or an Escalade, my neighbor got the four-door Porsche. I have a really nice truck. But it's a Durango and I like frontin'! I like to ride by and show off.

I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.

The truth is that we should live with less envy and more cordiality and empathy.

I wish I had a better metabolism. But someone else probably wishes they could walk into a room and make friends with everyone like I can. You always want what someone else has.

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy.I want to be that guy myself very often.

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

No matter how good somebody's life looks from the outside, you can be sure there's something about it you wouldn't want to have in your life.

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

Oh, don't be silly - EVERYONE wants this. Everyone wants to be *us*.

People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.

It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.

Every time I hangout with Sandra Bullock I think I want to be her. I want to be married to Jesse James.

If somebody is strong and showing good performances and perfect in the thing you are doing, there are people who want to disturb you.

In the story shoes are just a metaphor for what these girls go through...the grass is always greener and everyone always wants to be in somebody else's shoes; they don't want to be in their own.

I'm satisfied with a little while you haters want it all. You waitin' for the spring and I'm gettin' it in the fall.

I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want. Faster, much faster than any man could make the tally.

He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

It's not my fault everybody wants me