Quotes About Envy

Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.

People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise.

I am unable to eat what I want to and always work hard to maintain my body and looks. I envy other women who have a free lifestyle.

I was once told that I had become too confident and that it made me less likeable. Many successful people will get this at some point, because the people who haven't followed a similar path can be threatened by someone who has and is unabashed about it.

Living in Manhattan opened me to whole new sets of things to envy, study, gather and imagine stealing. A full-size 1809 German harp, beautifully painted with three goddesses, covered in a pea-green coat of great silvery refinement: mine for $180. Though all its strings were broken, its beauty let it claim a quarter of my one - bedroom.

I love the power of the musician who composes and performs. I envy their ability to put a nugget of truth in three minutes of sweat and emotional outpouring, colored entirely from their thoughts.

I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.

I always get jealous when I'm in London because the men are so well put together. They wear suits with shoes and ties that have splashes of colour here and there.

Sometimes I get jealous when I'm reading a great book by a younger writer. But 'White Tiger' is so good, I almost forgot to hate Aravind Adiga.

Does it feel good to stand on my stage with 500-pound tigers and everybody envy you? Absolutely.

Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here and gone.

He that is jealous is not in love.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them, therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

He remembered that envy is the concomitant of glory, and thus, the more renowned he became, the greater was his caution and circumspection.

imitari quam invidere bonis malebant.

A pinch of jealousy thickens the broth. —Venus's Love Notes

A pinch of jealousy thickens the broth.

I made this resolution today. I will try to excel in all things yet if I am excelled, without fault of mine, I will not be mortified. I will not withhold from any one the praise which I think his due; nor will I allow myself to envy another's praise or to feel jealousy when I hear him praised. May God help me to keep it.

El termómetro del éxito es simplemente la envidia de los descontentos.

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