Envy Quotes - Page 3

There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.

Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.

I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art.

What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy.

School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity.

Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.

Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.

You're shagging a woman who can turn into a dragon? Blast you, Charles, I am sick with envy!

It is better to be envied than pitied.

Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.

It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above that.

Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.

We need to get rid of hate, envy, jealousy, discord in ourselves, so we can reach a solution in terms of peace in order to feel that time has come for human happiness.

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.

Analyze yourself. All emotions are reflected in the body and mind. Envy and fear cause the face to pale, love makes it glow.

Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

It is often found that modesty and humility not only do no good, but are positively hurtful, when they are shown to the arrogant who have taken up a prejudice against you, either from envy or from any other cause.

Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter.