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Quotes About Envy

No one enjoys being equal.
~ David Mamet
Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally dead.
~ T. H. White
Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
~ Samuel Johnson
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Envy, bleating 'I'm as good as you', is the hotbed of Fascism.
~ Unknown
Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.
~ Vanna Bonta
What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?
~ Mary Renault
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
~ Gore Vidal
Success is somebody else's failure.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
It is easy to despise what you cannot get
~ Aesop
Jealous leaders measure their success by the failure of others.
~ Andy Stanley
Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.
~ Anthony Liccione
A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
~ Xun Kuang
I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.
~ Jack Nicholson
I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice
~ Walter Scott
Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.
~ Walter Savage Landor
I envy my dad and his faith. I envy all people who have someone to beseech, who know where they're going, who sleep under the fluffy white comforter of belief.
~ Kelly Corrigan
I really envy, in some respects, some of the people of faith I've known - A.J.[Muste], for example.
~ Nat Hentoff
We remain contented when we continue counting our own blessings but become envious when we start counting other people's blessings for them.
~ Terry Mark
I'm jealous of my parents, I'll never have a kid as cool as theirs.
~ Unknown
You're doubtful, I'm astounding. You talk sh.. while I'm smiling. You're hatin, while I live it. You're watching me as I kill it.
~ Unknown
People may hate you for being different and not living by society's standards but deep down, they wish they had the courage to do the same.
~ Unknown
People will wish you all the success in the world and then they feel jealous and hate you when you get it.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
Haters will be all in your face wishing you good luck but behind your back praying to God you fall off.
~ Unknown