Quotes About Envy

Envy thou not the oppressor, And choose none of his ways. —Proverbs 3:31

There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have never given a moment's thought to anything, and comprehend everything. 'Blessed hands' is the name bestowed on these fortunate beings. The world envies, honours and respects them.

Yeah, there's probably been times when I'm watching cable and seeing there's like three movies that Jack's in and I'm sitting hogging a bag of Cheetos in my underwear and I think 'God, what happened to me? Why can't I be something special like Jack?'

One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their own developmental stages and recognise themselves and undo a lot of things they decided.

As an observer, I react to the realities of Israeli life with both envy and relief. Nobody wants to live under the threat of constant attack from enemies right next door, under ceaseless and often unfair international scrutiny, defending his homeland by day and living with the memories of mass genocide at night.

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

Social media, unfortunately, just makes it a lot easier to be jealous. It sets up false expectations of reality, so it's really easy to look at someone else's life online and assume that they have everything going great for them and that their life is perfect.

A jewelled garden the envy of Aladdin's cave spilled across the courtyard.

Don't be envious of the Success of others, but let it be your Motivation to thrive

Jealousy destroys the Moral competence to be Successful

Everybody wishes to have something that somebody else has. And that's the root of all sorrows.

Why waste your strength envying and hating instead of loving?

A wolf can only curse a lion when surrounded by its peers.

People only stone a tree that is full of ripe fruit.

The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

A lot of men said they were jealous of me because my shoes excite women in a way they can't.

Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal.

God forbid, men should be jealous of knowledge as they are jealous of women.

I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.

Guys who can't take care of their own women always covet other guys' women

I've never had a car sponsor or all the things that most others seemed to have had.

It's a competitive business, and everybody wants to be the best. And when there's a new guy coming in, and there's buzz about him, 'Oh, he was a pro football player,' you instantly have people that don't like you because they're afraid you're going to take their spot.

There's just so much girl-on-girl hate. It happens to start in high school, and then it builds and gets bigger and bigger, and it seems like for some reason there's this mentality that if another girl does well, she's taking my spot.