Envy Quotes

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill

Failure, Ignorance, Philosophy

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Buddha

Peace, Mind, Others

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

Trust, Friend, Anyone

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Aristotle

Good, Men, Jealousy

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
Marilyn Monroe

Success, Hate, Enjoy

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
Victor Hugo

Hate, Wicked, Admiring

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

Art, Blessings, Fellow

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.
Theodore Roosevelt

Greatest, Deep, Done

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
Jim Rohn

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Elbert Hubbard

Joy, Might, Gods

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

Power, Jealousy, Destroy

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
Xun Zi

Faith, Good, Hate

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
Jean Vanier

Ignorance, Belief, Lack

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

Hate, Hatred, Step

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

May, Enough, Others

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Aeschylus

Men, Character, Friend

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

Politics, Country, Leader

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Josh Billings

Love, Through, Looks

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
Erich Fromm

Feeling, Moral, Virtue

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Love, Smile, Mother

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.
Dave Mustaine

Fun, Help, Self

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sure, Born, Noble

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

Love, God, Truth

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

Single, Flower, Thorns

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

Sometimes, Pride, Toward

Envy is an insult to oneself.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Insult, Oneself

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
William Hazlitt

Love, Angry, Justice

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
Heraclitus

Happiness, Longer, Lasts

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.
Charley Reese

Malice, Tangible, Shape

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