Quotes About Envy

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.

The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.

Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt.

I was burning up with scorn for all of them – and I dreaded them too, because their lives were achieved and full beside my thwarted unfinished one

Stop taking advice from people who aren't living the life you want.

People don't like you because they don't see in you the things they like or there is something in you they don't have

The evils of envy and hatred masquerading as humanitarian idealism had darkened his life from its outset, stamping him as a man quick to search for the reality behind the expression of fine sentiments.

It is no harm to thee if thou place thyself below all others; but it is great harm if thou place thyself above even one. Peace is ever with the humble man, but in the heart of the proud there is envy and continual wrath.

He who hath true and perfect charity, in no wise seeketh his own good, but desireth that God alone be altogether glorified. He envieth none, because he longeth for no selfish joy; nor doth he desire to rejoice in himself, but longeth to be blessed in God as the highest good.

If thou hast any good, believe that others have more, and so thou mayest preserve thy humility. It is no harm to thee if thou place thyself below all others; but it is great harm if thou place thyself above even one. Peace is ever with the humble man, but in the heart of the proud there is envy and continual wrath.

Peace is ever with the humble man, but in the heart of the proud there is envy and continual wrath.

yet so that envy is not to be taken for a passion, but for a will resisting the good of another.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

This is the end of Prime Minister, Cardinal Archbishop Lomenie de Brienne. Flimsier mortal was seldom fated to do as weighty a mischief; to have a life as despicable-envied, an exit as frightful. Fired, as the phrase is, with ambition: blown, like a kindled rag, the sport of winds, not this way, not that way, but of all ways, straight towards such a powder-mine,—which he kindled! Let us pity the hapless Lomenie; and forgive him; and, as soon as possible, forget him.

Disgust is often more deeply buried than envy and anger, but it compounds and intensifies the other negative emotions.

I couldn't even pick up the newspaper without saying, 'This is a fine piece of writing. I wish to hell I could write like this.'

'Bloody do-gooders' is my expression for people who are nicer than me, who are better than me.

When I was growing up, I got a lot of, 'Oh, well, she bought the nicest horse, so of course she's going to win.' And I dealt with a lot of that.

I've played in San Diego for nine years and gone against my new team a bunch of times, and I've always envied their success. I've always envied the way they play, the way they go about business.