Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herodotus

Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.

Herodotus

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

Herodotus

It is better to be envied than pitied.

Herodotus

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

Heinrich Heine

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Henry Fielding

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.

Jonathan Sacks

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

Mason Cooley

After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.

Mason Cooley

People may show jealousy, but hide their envy.

Mahatma Gandhi

A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.

Joe Orton

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

Louise Bourgeois

Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.

Rachel Weisz

I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.

John Donne

If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

John Calvin

Elisabeth, again, while she praises her, is so far from hiding the Divine glory, that she ascribes everything to God. And yet, though she acknowledges the superiority of Mary to herself and to others, she does not envy her the higher distinction, but modestly declares that she had obtained more than she deserved.

John Berger

The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.

John Berger

The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.

John Berger

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

John Gay

Envy's a sharper spur than pay.

John Gay

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

John Gay

Envy is a kind of praise.

John Flavel

[Providences] often puzzle and entangle our thoughts, but bring them to the Word, and your duty will be quickly manifested. "Until I went into the sanctuary of God, then understood I their end" (Ps. 73:17). And not only their end, but his own duty, to be quiet in an afflicted condition and not envy their prosperity.

John Fowles

Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.

John F. Kennedy

One-third of the world, it has been said, may be free- -but one-third is the victim of cruel repression--and the other one- third is rocked by the pangs of poverty, hunger and envy. More energy is released by the awakening of these new nations than by the fission of the atom itself.

John Lyly

The greatest harm that you can do unto the envious, is to do well.

Emily Post

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.

Elvis Presley

Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?

Joseph Hall

Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.

Livy

Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est