Envy Jealousy Quotes
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Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
— Samuel Johnson
Each person you admire is simply a reminder of your own latent excellence, your own unacknowledged beauty.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.
— William Hazlitt
Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.
— Susan Cain
There is no good envy, except the one that motivates us to reach higher goals and be better than the person we were yesterday.
— Ogwo David Emenike
Jealousy is beautiful only on a young and ardent face. After the first wrinkles, trust must return.
— Alfred Capus
It's okay to glance at the light of another. But when you look to long, it will blind you from seeing your own.
— Charles F. Glassman
Insecure people put others down to raise themselves up.
— Habeeb Akande
What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?"
"Everything, since he has a command and I have not. — Patrick O'Brian
"Everything, since he has a command and I have not. — Patrick O'Brian
Do not share your thoughts with people who think that what you are thinking is not worth thinking.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
If you just can't get rid of envy, then start creating a life, so that if you saw yourself from afar, you'd be envious of you.
— Charles F. Glassman
Don't waste your time being envious of what you don't have or who you want to be. Instead, focus on what you do have and who you can become.
— April Mae Monterrosa
Do not develop jealousy, hatred or envy on any count.
— Sathya Sai Baba
Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
— George Eliot
Jealousy and envy are cheap suits made of flashy colors," I said. "No one wears them well, and everyone sees you when you are coming.
— J.A. Redmerski
Merry hearts are vulnerable to death, don't be over-joyed to the state of oblivion, lest the enemy poison your meal.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Envy is when you want what someone else has. Jealousy's when you also don't want them to have it.
— Kirsten Hubbard
The greatest enemies of us alcoholics are resentment, jealousy, envy, frustration, and fear.
— Alcoholics Anonymous
People that are jealous and envious of you are too freaking lazy to step up their own game.
— April Mae Monterrosa
Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
— Iris Murdoch
Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.
— Willard Gaylin
Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.
— Eckhart Tolle
Stretch an unwavering tenacity when facing bad to worse attitudes.
— Angelica Hopes
People may show jealousy, but hide their envy.
— Mason Cooley
Millions upon millions will attain your ceremony, but don't think all of them are in a ceremonius mood.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Envy is a buzz killer."
~R. Alan Woods [2013] — R. Alan Woods
~R. Alan Woods [2013] — R. Alan Woods
I've always looked on criticism as a sort of envious tribute.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success
— Matthieu Ricard
A missionary deals with all the important people of the community, but he is never really one of them.
— Henry R. Luce
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
— William Shakespeare
Jealousy is a detestable motive.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Staring at the light of another blinds the view of our own.
— Charles F. Glassman
When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.
— Rachel Field
It is, after all, envy rather than jealousy that causes most of the trouble in married life.
— Anthony Powell
Because thankfulness is the tonic that always cures the cancers of greed, envy and jealously, it should be taken in liberal doses daily.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
If only you could see the greatness in yourself, you wouldn't envy the greatness in others.
— Suzy Kassem
I only envy as basic old sexual jealousy.
— Joan Juliet Buck
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
— Oliver Stone
Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.
— Honore De Balzac
Jealousy is the fire of envy that seeks to destroy another's beauty, rather than to create its own.
— Wes Fesler
Jealousy is under-covered envy.
— Ben Tolosa
The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.
— Criss Jami
When you understand who you are by knowing what God created you to do, you have no room for becoming jealous over what someone else is doing.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
— Honore De Balzac
The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It's silly to think the left eye would envy the right or that one foot would be jealous of the other, and yet so often it is the case.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.
— Anthony Liccione
There will always be haters. And the more you grow the more they hate; the more they hate the more you grow.
— Anthony Liccione
No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.
— Tupac Shakur
Use your hater to make you greater!
— Habeeb Akande
A hint of jealously once in a while is not only natural but a compliment therefore, always smile and accept it graciously for it shows they care...
— Virginia Alison
Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate.
— Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
Hate hates what it mirrors or envies.
— T.F. Hodge
Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.
— Emily Post
Envy suggests inferiority.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Envy yearns to find flaws.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.
— Germaine Greer
My brother, do men grieve over the fight of cats and dogs? So the jealousy, envy, and elbowing of common men should make no impression on your mind.
— Swami Vivekananda
Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can ... . The art world is high school with money.
— Jerry Saltz
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
— William Shenstone
If girls could spit venom, it'd be through their eyes.
— S.D. Lawendowski