Quotes About Envy

What I dislike about going to the club is if you're not behind that red rope, you feel you're missing something special going on.

I never felt sorry for the people in 'Friends' though. They had enormous wealth and they were very funny, creative people who gave a lot of people happiness.

No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

Can angels lie spine to spine?If not, how they must envy us humans

Some people only hate you because of the way other people love you.

Those who pretend as if they don't love you, are the ones who would hate to see you love another person.

I envythe cup of coffeethat getsto kissyour sleepy lipsawakeevery cold andbitter morning.

Ashlinn was lovely to look upon, someone who could easily snub half of the highest-paid stars in Hollywood and break the hearts of the rest.

You will be my thunder. I'll be your lightning. Even the heavens will rage with jealousy.

He fell in love with the way she fell in love with everything besides him.

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else.

If you talk more than you listen, you not only deprive yourself of many opportunities to accumulate useful knowledge, but you also disclose your PLANS and PURPOSES to people who will take great delight in defeating you, because they envy you.

Keep your eyes and ears wide open—and your mouth closed, if you wish to acquire the habit of prompt decision. Those who talk too much do little else. If you talk more than you listen, you not only deprive yourself of many opportunities to accumulate useful knowledge, but you also disclose your plans and purposes to people who will take great delight in defeating you, because they envy you.

It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.

Millions of people look at the achievements of Henry Ford, after he has arrived, and envy him, because of his good fortune, or luck, or genius, or whatever it is that they credit for Ford's fortune. Perhaps one person in every hundred thousand knows the secret of Ford's success, and those who do know are too modest, or

Success is "the attainment of your desire or definite chief aim without violating the rights of other people." Regardless of what your major aim in life may be, you will attain it with much less difficulty after you learn how to cultivate a pleasing personality and you learn to deal with others without friction or envy.

Those who talk too much do little else. If you talk more than you listen, you not only deprive yourself of many opportunities to accumulate useful knowledge, but you also disclose your plans and purposes to people who will take great delight in defeating you, because they envy you.

The little ragged newsboy on the street stands, with wide-open mouth, and envies the business man as he alights from his automobile at the curb and starts into his office. "How happy I would be," the newsboy says to himself, "if I owned a Lizzie." And, the business man seated at his desk inside, thinks how happy he would be if he could add another million dollars to his already overswollen bank roll.

They will envy you for your success, for your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status—but rarely for your wisdom.

Bad-mouthing is the only genuine, never faked expression of admiration.

You want to avoid being disliked without being envied or admired