Envy Quotes

Work hard to discover your gift and you will never envy or hate another human being who is manifesting theirs.

Let’s face it: There are people who won’t be happy when you get too blessed. There are people who feel threatened by your success. There are people who, out of envy, will just not like you anymore.

No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.

Don't envy the harvest of the rich. Envy their planting.

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

The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.

Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.

It is sufficient for you that the one who envies you is distressed at the time of your joy.

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.

To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish

If the Angels could envy, they would envy us for Holy Communion.

Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.

The world says: "You have needs - satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Don't envy those who make their wealth in an ungodly way. The wicked SEEM to prosper now and live without a care but they will spend eternity in terror and despair.

Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.

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