Envy Quotes - Page 14

In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

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

Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd

Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us.

Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another - physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.

As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy.

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.

The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one.

Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

If we are the younger, we may envy the older. If we are the older, we may feel that the younger is always being indulged. In otherwords, no matter what position we hold in family order of birth, we can prove beyond a doubt that we're being gypped.

But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.

The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God