Quotes About Envy

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

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

People often grudge others when they cannot enjoy themselves.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

From all I have heard, geniuses are people to be heartily disliked.

If you've been snubbed, or ignored, or frustrated, and your life's pretty drab and empty, I suppose you get a sense of power from stabbing in the dark at people who are happy and enjoying themselves.

I'm not at all sure that I'm not a little jealous of her… we women are such cats, aren't we? Scratch, scratch, miauw, miauw, purr, purr…

Aku benci melihat orang yang merasa puas diri. Hal itu membangkitkan semua naluri jahatku.

It's been going on a long time. I can tell you it's a difficult thing to go on really liking a man who can do everything just a little bit better than you can. Burnaby was a narrow-minded, small-natured man. He let it get on his nerves.

People who don't have a certain thing will tend to see it in one of two ways: as something that they absolutely must have or something that no one should ever have

Kyosuke was right on time, as usual. He was dressed in winter-white flannel trousers, a black turtleneck sweater, and a gray-and-black herringbone tweed jacket. An oyster-colored silk scarf was slung carelessly around his neck. Kenzo, who had thrown on some wrinkled khaki slacks and an old tan sweater, stared admiringly at his friend's dashing getup.

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

WHEN SOMEONE SEES his neighbor acquiring some worldly property, whether some kind of food or clothing, or a house, or accumulating money, he works hard to get the same, because he thinks, "If my friend has this, I should also have it!" —ORCHOT TZADDIKIM (1540)

I'm glad you live in the moment. That's what I envy about dogs.

Some people might hate someone who is successful, but in Peru, they love it! It makes them feel they can be successful, too. That's a good state of mind for a country that wants to come out of poverty.

We are becoming so fickle and self involved. Always looking for the next best thing - especially when it comes to people. We spend hours buried in our phones trying to keep up with the social lives of people we may not even know. Envy and the fear of missing out have taken over. Yet we are all still longing for human connection.

Photography has become a small world with so many jealous people. You do a story and then a lot of people try to do the same thing.

I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive.

It doesn't occur to me that I don't drive a cool car until I hang out with Jon Hamm, who picks me up in what looks like a Transformer, and I think, 'Oh, that's what movie stars are driving. I guess I'm not a movie star.'

I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.

I've always envied Thomas Jefferson's bed at Monticello. It's in a tiny alcove, bound by walls at the head and foot.

You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.