Envy Quotes

• 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.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Humanity

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

  

  Angus Wilson
  • Effort
  • Feet
  • Trapped

• I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Children
  • Envy

• The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Joy
  • Envy

• One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people-I categorize them as life's losers-who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I'm concerned, if they had any real ability they wouldn't be fighting me, they'd be doing something constructive themselves.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.

  

  Euripides
  • Envy
  • Menace
  • Demagogues

• The reason I'm in San Diego is not because I want distance from South Africa but because I want proximity to the people I love. But I don't envy growing up in America. As ugly as aspects of it were, my biggest blessing was to be born a South African.

  

  Athol Fugard
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

  

  Charley Reese
  • Envy

• Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.

  

  Jacopo Sannazaro
  • Evil
  • Son
  • Envy

• I envy Jesus because he's dead.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Jesus
  • Dead
  • Because

• Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Envy
  • Declaration
  • Inferiority

• There are a lot of ways to make people not like you, but one of the most powerful - if least fair - is to be really, really successful. Nobody resents the guy who just lost his job. But the guy whose Internet start-up made him a billionaire at 25? That's a whole different kettle of envy.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Living in Manhattan opened me to whole new sets of things to envy, study, gather and imagine stealing. A full-size 1809 German harp, beautifully painted with three goddesses, covered in a pea-green coat of great silvery refinement: mine for $180. Though all its strings were broken, its beauty let it claim a quarter of my one - bedroom.

  

  Allan Gurganus
  • Great
  • Study
  • Broken

• Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead log.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Remember
  • Mean
  • Criticism

• Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I have been reading Madame Roland's memoirs and have come to the conclusion that she was a very over-rated woman; snobbish, vain, sentimental, envious - rather a German type. Her last days before her execution were spent in chronicling petty social snubs or triumphs of many years back. She was a democrat chiefly from envy of the noblesse.

  

  Madame Roland
  • She
  • Reading
  • Years

• Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Envy
  • Joined
  • Comparing

• Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Education
  • Health

• There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

  

  William Shenstone
  • People
  • Reason
  • Fine

• You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.

  

  Craig Brown
  • Professional
  • Envy
  • Jealousy

• I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.

  

  Deidre Hall
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.

  

  Dave Mustaine Metallica
  • Help
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• People may show jealousy, but hide their envy.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • People
  • May
  • Jealousy

• Young man, there is America - which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • World
  • Men
  • America

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