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Quotes About Envy

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.
~ Emma Goldman
Pay close attention to people who don't clap when you win
~ Unknown
If you are envious, infatuated, competitive, ambitious, jealous, possessive, you will be in misery.
~ Unknown
The best way to torture haters is with your happiness. There's nothing people hate more than seeing you be successful.
~ Unknown
Don't be envious of people with the perfect life, try to sacrifice your time as individuals towards achieving the best life you want for yourself; work towards the life of your dream.
~ Unknown
Love is pure, don't let it become tainted by greed, lust and envy.
~ Unknown
Being single is ok but after a while you get tired of seeing cute couples out there. Then you start to wonder when you're going to be part of one...
~ Unknown
While you're hating your life just because you can't get what you want, someone is praying to have a life like yours.
~ Unknown
Looking at what others have that I don't, can make me ungrateful, but looking at what I have that they don't, should make me thankful.
~ Mufti Ismail Menk
Celebrate and leverage on people's accomplishments rather than compare and become envious about it.
~ Unknown
A happy man is one who wants what he has. An unhappy man gets what he wants but never stops wanting.
~ Unknown
He who never has enough, never has anything.
~ Unknown
Jealousy is considering other person received the thing that you deserved.
~ Unknown
There is nothing but comparison that makes people happy or miserable.
~ Unknown
Il est difficile de voir quelqu'un obtenir ce que le monde désire, et de devoir le consoler, en prime.
~ Virginie Despentes
Moral indignation is in most cases 2% moral, 48% indignation and 50% envy.
~ Vittorio De Sica
A lucky thing Eva Perón was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
~ Vivien Leigh
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
~ Voltaire
I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head.
~ Unknown
Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.
~ John Wilmot
I'm confident. Some people don't like confidence. They resent confidence.
~ Adam Levine
When I see other rappers' lyrics of "I don't do what I don't like to do", I feel like it's really cool and there's also an envious side to me about it.
~ Kim Nam-joon
I want to be like Tom Freston. Tom just flies around everywhere, gets to make movies, gets to start TV shows, hang out with cool people and do whatever he wants.
~ Shane Smith