Never Envy Quotes

We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above that. — Hillman Curtis

This beautiful, wonderful, sexy-as-sin woman is mine. You may look - and seethe with envy - but never touch. — Olivia Cunning

The truly covetous have never enough! — Delarivier Manley

He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God? — Swami Vivekananda

People used to envy me my inspiration. I hate inspiration. It takes you over completely. I could never wait until it passed and I got rid of it. — Henry Miller

A man shall never be enriched by envy. — Thomas Draxe

I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily. — J. Paul Getty

I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame — John Adams

There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart. — Claude Adrien Helvetius

Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along. — Mignon McLaughlin

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock. — Francis Beaumont

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build. — Margaret Thatcher

We never envy another's achievement more than when we know very little about how it was attained. — Alain De Botton

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. — Charles Churchill

Never envy someone! Envy is bad karma and karma is a bitch ;) — Maria N.

Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism. — Martin Amis

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell. — Charles Bukowski

Never underestimate the power of envy. — Elif Shafak

Dead men may envy living mites in cheese,
Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys,
And subdivide, and never come to death. — Wilfred Owen

Envy and greed always - always - exact a terrible price. I have never met an envious or greedy person who was at peace. — Billy Graham

My life hasn't been perfect, yet I've never wasted my time envying anyone else. If something wasn't the best it could be - I made it better. — Aleatha Romig

A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed. — H.L. Mencken

Young girls envy the life yall leading, never satisfied with a nice calm evening — Drake

Never be envious of what someone else has.You don't know the price they paid to get it, and you don't know the price they are paying to keep it. — Stephan Labossiere

A missionary deals with all the important people of the community, but he is never really one of them. — Henry R. Luce

I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire.
Another life is never safely envied. — Robert Wells

We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep! — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

I envy the trees that grow at crossroads. They are never forced to decide which way to go ... — Margarita Engle

Never envy others. Be happy and love your work. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy. — Juvenal

Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly. — Joseph Epstein

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. — George Bancroft

Ty is green but never with envy. Best of all, he's usually available to help move a heavy piece of furniture. — John Hopkins

Never show how smart you are, dears, or someone will envy you. — Elizabeth Moon

Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance. — Anthony Liccione

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want. — Nancy Friday

Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends. — Mike Norton

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion. — Eubie Blake

Is it not strange that the more someone has, the less he feels he has? Envy can never be sated. — Jeff Wheeler

They hate you when your up but they love you when your down that's why i never give a soul my last pound — Blanco Vandam

Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is
where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge. — Robert C. Shannon

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that. — Oliver Stone

Envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are. — Margaret Of Valois

Jealousy is a bitch nigga trait never truss a man who always ask what u make — Blanco Vandam

Roots never get the appreciation that a flower does, but that doesn't make them envious. — Debasish Mridha

The envious will die, but envy never. — Moliere

Your skill can never buy you love. It may win you admiration and envy, but never love. If that was what you were after, you have wasted your time. — Patricia St. John

When I woke in the dark I was smiling - it's a happy thing to brace for a visit from old friend Envy who then for some reason never shows up. — Leif Enger

Envy, slothful vice,
Never makes its way in lofty characters,
But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls
Close to the ground. — Ovid

Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate. — Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

Beware of those who are bitter, for they will never allow you to enjoy your fruit. — Suzy Kassem

Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. — Dorothy Parker

I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice — Walter Scott

Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic? — Natalie Angier

Work hard to discover your gift and you will never envy or hate another human being who is manifesting theirs. — Louis Farrakhan