Quotes About Envy

We were designed to love and to be loved, to reach our dreams to unleash our potentials but not live in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

Why is it so? Why is it that our sad mind feels relaxed when we see others facing more than us and not feel happy when we see those same getting more than us? Why is it so?

All POOR wish to become RICH, BUT all RICH wish the POOR remain POOR.

Jealousy is the art of burning yourself inside out.

You know that if I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

It is indeed a curse to dream as you walk amongst the dreamless

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

More important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy.

The politics of envy is the politics of this commandment: "Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote." It is the politics of two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program - on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off - than on any positive task.

The Americans are so much more positive. They are much more in love with success. In Britain, they're a fairly envious bunch, and they love it if you fail.

Jealousy is the loss of joy.

The wise will admire you. The wishful will envy you. The weak will hate you. This is the reality for those who dare to be epic.

I do not envy those who live a comfortable life.

Fifty year old wealthy man resents twenty five year old middle class man, without recalling that 25 years back even he was a poor man.

There is no good envy, except the one that motivates us to reach higher goals and be better than the person we were yesterday.

Guard your heart against anger, bitterness, envy, jealousy….!

I don't want to drain what little energy I have on hate, on envy, on blame. I'll need every last drop to better myself, so I can make what little impact I can in this world.

Some consider haters, people that simply cannot be happy for another person's success. I just don't consider them.

You are all so good and I wish I were better. Now get out of here because I want to be where you are.

Schadenfreude is so nutritious.

People view celebrities from a place of envy and inferiority. Instead of being personally inspired by their great artistry they see them in a position they could never attain

Envy and malice are indefatigable. Where they have not invention enough to frame new slanders, or the slanders newly framed are found totally inadequate to their purpose, they will call in the feeble aid of old calumnies

Why do we care about what other people earn or own? Because we tend to regard life as an ongoing competition for social status. When