Envy Quotes

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

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

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

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.

Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.

What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

I almost envy people who say whatever they want.

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.

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

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.

Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.

We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.'

On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

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.

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

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