Envy Quotes - Page 20

Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had.

It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root.

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.

We need to create an enterprise culture, a society where successful entrepreneurs are respected and admired, not treated with suspicion and disdain. And in which we see less envy of other peoples' achievements and mistrust of commerce, and a greater readiness to get out there and join in the process.

Franchement, quand je survole certains pays européens (les éoliennes) ne donne pas envie. (Frankly, when I fly over some European countries, their turbines don't fill me with envy.)

I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself.

If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always, based on a complete misunderstanding of another person's situation.

The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]

As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy.

Gloucestershire police must be the envy of the human rights-abusing cop world. From Turkey to Indonesia they will say, 'Kidnapping peace protestors! How did they get away with that one?'

What I envy most about you Christians is your forgiveness; I have nobody to forgive me.

It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.

All people, entrepreneurs as well as non-entrepreneurs, look askance upon any profits earned by other people. Envy is a common weakness of men. People are loath to acknowledge the fact that they themselves could have earned profits if they had displayed the same foresight and judgment the successful businessman did.

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now.

Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue

We are often infinitely mistaken, and take the falsest measures, when we envy the happiness of rich and great men; we know not the inward canker that eats out all their joy and delight, and makes them really much more miserable than ourselves.

Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity - Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.

If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

Elisabeth, again, while she praises her, is so far from hiding the Divine glory, that she ascribes everything to God. And yet, though she acknowledges the superiority of Mary to herself and to others, she does not envy her the higher distinction, but modestly declares that she had obtained more than she deserved.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.