Quotes About Envy

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.

Everyone says "I wish I was in your shoes...", the hundreds of people that wish they were in my shoes don't know the tenth of it. If they were in my shoes they would cry like a baby.

Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt.

A lot of people don't understand how a lot of money is being made. There's a combination of fear related to that, envy, distrust that gets filtered into that.

Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.

People seldom know the sacrifices you made to get where you are, yet they criticize you and envy you, instead of trying to emulate you.

People will wish you the best in life and hate you when you make it.

Remember... people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.

Those who cant usually criticize those who can.

If you're jealous of someone else's life don't hate on them; just use them as inspiration to better your own life.

A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones. So save your anger and jealousy sweetheart, don't allow your own emotion to hurt you !!

Often people that criticize your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today.

If all you ever do is gossip about my life , then you probably don't have one of your own.

People wanna see you doing well, but not better than them.

If you walk on sunlight, bathe in moonlight, breathe in a golden air and exhale a Midas' touch; mark my words, those who exist in the shadows will try to pull you into the darkness with them. The last thing that they want is for you to see the wonder of your life because they can't see theirs.

People hate what they can't conquer, envy what they can't get, and destroy what they already have.

Some people hate you because you're happy with your life. Some people hate you because they don't have a life.

Sometimes there is nothing harder in life than being happy for someone else.

Some people get jealous of the accomplishments you have made, unaware of all the struggles and pain it took to get to the pebbled path called success.

Even in cases where the multiplication of his modest personal advantages by his self-esteem would not suffice to assure a man the dose of happiness, superior to that accorded to others, which is essential to him, envy is always there to make up the balance.

Chaque fois qu'elle voyait aux autres un avantage si petit fût-il qu'elle n'avait pas, elle se persuadait que c'était non un avantage mais un mal et les plaignait pour ne pas avoir à les envier.

women hated her, and the men saw her as the girl they could never get. Dale

Now think of the things which goad man into destroying man: they are hope, envy, hatred, fear and contempt.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.