Quotes About Envy

It's so dreadful to be poor! sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress. I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all

O sucesso sempre incomoda os medíocres ambiciosos, os sonhadores incapazes, os fracassados em geral.

If I can attain Heaven for a pice, why should you be envious?

La Envidia es la Religión de los Mediocres. (Pedro Vidal en El Juego del Ángel)

They'll give you the ein hora—the evil eye.

I feel as if there's a huge gulf separating me from all the lucky people in the world; they have so much to look forward to.

Greed and envy took from a man's heart everything but—well, greed and envy.

after we polished our boots to the point that the sun extinguished itself out of envy

But as it befell thee (according to what thou sayest in thy Defense, as ironically enough thou hast called the crudest satire upon any generation), that thou didst bring down upon thee many enemies by making it evident that they were ignorant; and as they imputed to thee the inference that thou thyself must be what thou wert able to show the others were not, they therefore out of envy conceived a grudge against thee; so it has also befallen me.

I know there is a special bond between us, one that the others envy and resent; it is because she and I both stand at the gateway, I of my life, she of her death, and we both know that it is a revolving door.

Is it possible to be jealous of written words?

IS IT POSSIBLE to be jealous of written words? To resent nocturnal scribblings as though they were the very flesh and blood of a sexual rival?

Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.

There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.

In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.

He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their life is done.

If you're a hater we make you scared to show your face. It's called success.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity.

You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.