Quotes About Envy

I don't watch that much comedy. I think it's professional jealousy. That and a lack of support for my community.

Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is the the soul with its myriad tiny nerve endings that notices the neglected pathos, poignancy and practicality that lies at the heart of life. It's as if the media are somehow irritated and envious that anonymous people should have the quiet brilliance of their rich and sustainable inner lives...

Her eyes brown in places that brown could only dream of reaching.

Trump simply could not abide the knowledge that somebody was getting a leg up at his expense. His was a zero-sum ecosystem. In the world of Trump, anything that he deemed of value either accrued to him or had been robbed from him.

Jóvenes, guapos, famosos, deseados por todas las mujeres y envidiados por todos los hombres, las estrellas del rock constituían la cima absoluta de la jerarquía social. No había nada en la historia de la humanidad, desde la divinización de los faraones en el antiguo Egipto, que pudiera compararse al culto de la juventud europea y norteamericana por las estrellas de rock

You no longer feel the fear of a change of being and desire . . . The course of the hours lays not violent hands upon you ; necessity and chance guide not your steps ... I can hardly write without envy. --Michelangelo on the dead.

Everybody ain't happy for your success, but you don't let their feelings rob you of your happiness.

There's a chasm between envy and desire. Envy is like wanting something that's not yours. But desire is different. Desire comes out of wanting what is yours, and still wanting it even if it's not yet there, but it's not envy.

Most of us would like to be smarter than we are, stronger than we are, richer than we are, but we don't feel all that comfortable with people who are.

Show me a man with a million dollars, and I'll show you a million guys trying to take it away from him.

Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.

Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.

Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.

La envidia —gustaba repetir— la mantienen los que se empeñan en creerse envidiados, y las más de las persecuciones son efecto más de la manía persecutoria que no de la perseguidora.

La envidia la mantienen los que se empeñan en creerse envidiados, y las más de las persecuciones son efecto de la manía persecutoria que no de la perseguidora.

La envidia es mil veces más temible que el hambre porque es hambre espiritual.

La envidia es mil veces más terrible que el hambre, porque es hambre espiritual.

They detest you only because you stand so high above other men, and that is something that mediocre souls can never endure. And yet in each one of us lies the latent faculty of surpassing others. Of that I am sure.

It's like they take poison and then hope for the other person to die.

I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.

So then the success tax comes from envy, and the shit tax comes from exploitation... The tax for being mediocre comes from you and everyone else knowing that you are mediocre. It's a heavier tax than you'd think.

You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination.

People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you're succeeding. People do not get scared when you're failing. It calms them. But when you're winning, it makes them feel like they're losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should've tried to do something too, but now it's too late. And since they didn't, they want to stop you. You can't let them.

He was so popular you could barely look at him without being blinded by cool.