Envy Quotes
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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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Everybody knows someone like that: wonderful, attractive people full of passion and ideals. You envy them, but you know there's a dark side, which is brutal and cruel and violent. That dark side informs what's wonderful about them, and the passion and rage inform the darkness; they're inseparable.
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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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I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.
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My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.
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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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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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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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Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.
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Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.
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Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.
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We prefer people who are trying to imitate us more than those who are trying to equal us. This is because imitation is a sign of esteem, but the desire to equal others is a sign of envy.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.
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All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.
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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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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
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Jokes rot. They're not like songs. I always envy singers - Sting is always going to sing 'Roxanne'. But people want to hear new jokes. I've written jokes as good as 'Roxanne', I believe. But I can't tell them again.
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Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
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The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning which can do aught else than rob A to give to B; consequently all such plans nourish some of the meanest vices of human nature, waste capital, and overthrow civilization.
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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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Objecting to the diagnosis of penis envy was a sure sign of penis envy.
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Envy is a kind of praise.
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Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included, Julie, who choose poetry as their vocation. I envy your faith.
