Envy Quotes
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I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.
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The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife.
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Envy is a kind of praise.
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I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!
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I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'
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When the enemies' land force is once conquered and expelled from the continent, our Marine will rise as if by enchantment and become, within the memory of persons now living, the wonder and envy of the world.
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If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like.
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It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.
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Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.
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To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.
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Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.
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Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
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I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.
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There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that's a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration — without envy.
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Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.
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Silicon Valley's long-running track record of creating globally disruptive startups is the envy of the world.
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When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.
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There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
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For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.
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Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune. Envy no one, and you need envy no one.
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My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.
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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.
