Envy Quotes

Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?

Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.

The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.

No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.

On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.

Remember, the grass is always greener where you don't happen to be the neighbor.

The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.

Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.

I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

What poet would not grieve to seeHis brother write as well as he?But rather than they should excel,He'd wish his rivals all in Hell.

Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.

Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.

The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.

It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy. ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego.

When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.

Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

When you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.

There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members.

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.

Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.

Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.

It stirs up envy, fame does.

Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.

It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.

I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother.

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.

For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.

Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced my way, I couldn't help but feel guilty, even though I hadn't done anything wrong.

The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.

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? Forwhoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.

Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.

I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.

The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.

The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established.

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.

The kid makes you sick. He looks the part, he walks the part, he is the part. He's six-foot something, fit as a flea, good-looking - he's got to have something wrong with him....Hopefully he's hung like a hamster! That would make us all feel better!

In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on envy, resentment and ultimately on a vicious urge to lash out against others for the pain of ones own insignificance. That has been a common thread in things as disparate as ghetto riots, two world wars, and now Islamic terrorism.

We exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others.

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.