Quotes About Envy

When you're blessed, the haters come out. When you wear God's blessings well, don't be surprised if it draws jealousy out on people.

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

I hate when people in a commercial have more fun in 30 seconds than I will ever have in my whole life.

Dead men may envy living mites in cheese, Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys, And subdivide, and never come to death.

Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.

The grass is always greener on the other side of personal extinction.

The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less.

Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations.

This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.

All envy is proportionate to desire.

Do not desire your neighbor's wife in vain.

A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?

However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact extent to which you lag behind him.

It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.

I have a learning disability when it comes to languages, I envy actors like Prakash Raj and my kids who do it with such ease.

You could literally be perfect and people would still hate you, for being perfect.

We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.

People always ask me: How are you? I say I'm the envy of millions. I've been a lucky guy.

Look, any amount I make, somebody's going to be mad.

Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.

Sophie listened and felt sad. Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.

What the socialist class is good at, however, is creating envy and entitlement. This is their peculiar talent. And even though they won't admit it, they are engaged in a desperate battle for social control. What they seek is a displacement of power in society in which they, not entrepreneurs, direct the great apparatus of American industry, indeed direct the lives of the people themselves. They cannot, of course, admit this publicly, or even to themselves.