Envy Quotes
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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.
Charles Sanders Peirce -
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.
Pythagoras
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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Josh Billings -
Despite some struggles of our own, America's business and economic system remains the envy of much of the world.
John S. Watson -
Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
Charles Bukowski -
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.
Kathryn Budig -
I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.
Charles Krauthammer -
Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.
Willard Gaylin
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Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.
Willa Cather -
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Buddha -
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.
John Paul Jones -
Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.
Kami Garcia -
Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy.
William Lilly
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I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Eden; but I do so no more, because I have discovered that I also live in 'creation's dawn.' The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day.
John Muir -
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.
Virginia Woolf -
There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
William Shenstone -
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.
William Shakespeare -
If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has attained to, he will be affected with hatred towards the loved object and with envy towards his rival.
Baruch Spinoza -
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.
Arthur C. Brooks
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Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of pride and envy.
Sai Baba -
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.
Dustin Hoffman -
Silicon Valley's long-running track record of creating globally disruptive startups is the envy of the world.
Jay Samit -
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.'
William Shatner