Quotes About Envy

When Miz was wrestling Cena I just know that there were a lot of guys that felt like they should've been in that spot. If you didn't want to be in that spot, somethings wrong with you.

I spent years shaking the damage that comes with being burned by living near someone else's spotlight.

Fighters like Broner and Gervonta want all of the spotlight and when they see another fighter getting that natural spotlight, they seem to get aggravated or frustrated about it unless you are a part of their camp. I don't care what they say about us or try to bring out to the table.

What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.

Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.

We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.

There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart.

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.

Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.

A covetous man's penny is a stone.

No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.

The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.

We can better see what we don't have. The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the absence of green in our own lives.

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality.