Envy Quotes

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

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Greatness, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 09, 2017

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  Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

  William Arthur Ward

  Respect, Blessed, Blessing

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• Envy is an insult to oneself.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Insult, Oneself

  Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1989). “Early Poems”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

  Og Mandino

  Life, Children, Hate

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.117, Bantam

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  Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Integrity, Heart, Positivity

  "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living". Book by Dale Carnegie, 1948.

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• In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

  Ivan Illich

  Two, Addiction, Simplicity

  Tools for Conviviality ch. 3 (1973)

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• Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Humor, Praise

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.128

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• Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

  Matthieu Ricard

  Buddhism, Suffering, Inability

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• Our envy of others devours us most of all.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Inspirational, Gossip, Criticism

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  To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen" by Elbert Hubbard, (p. 370), 1898.

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• As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Men

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  Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

  Epictetus

  Life, Jealousy, Mind Your Own Business

  Epictetus, Sharon Lebell (2013). “The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

  Josh Billings

  Relationship, Jealousy, Hate

  Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.304

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  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

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Democratic Socialism

  Speech at the Scottish Unionist Conference, Perth, Scotland, May 28, 1948.

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

  Vittorio De Sica

  Funny, Moral, Cases

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• 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

  Jealousy, Men, Doe

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hate, Hatred, Steps

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• Cast out envy; you can have all that you want, and you need not envy any man what he has. Above all things, see to it that you do not hold malice or enmity toward any one; to do so cuts you off from the mind whose treasures you seek to make your own. Lay aside all narrow personal ambition and determine to seek the highest good.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Ambition, Cutting, Men

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting”, p.188, e-artnow

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

  Socrates

  Philosophical, Neighbor, Envious

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• Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pay, Distinction, Taxes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1961). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: 1822-1826”, p.202, Harvard University Press

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• Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

  Honore de Balzac

  Jealousy, Heart, Vipers

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• Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

  Jodi Picoult

  Life, Grief, Inspire

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Perfect Match”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hate, Coward, Way

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• What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him? "No, thank you," he will think. "Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these things are things that cannot inspire envy."

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Past, Reality, Thinking

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.94, Beacon Press

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• They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

  Sallust

  Inspirational, Honesty, Toil

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