Envy Quotes - Page 22

• We are savages insides. We all want to be the chosen, the beloved, the esteemed. There isn't a person reading this who hasn't at one point or another had that why not me? voice pop into the interior mix when something good has happened to someone else.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Reading, Voice, Savages

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.185, Atlantic Books Ltd

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If our credit be so well built, so firm, that it is not easy to be shaken by calumny or insinuation, envy then commends us, and extols us beyond reason to those upon whom we depend, till they grow jealous, and so blow us up when they cannot throw us down.

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

  Jealous, Blow, Credit

  6 Copy quote

• Probably nothing in the experience of the rank and file of workers causes more bitterness and envy than the realization which comes sooner or later to many of them that they are "stuck" and can go no further.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Work, Advancement, Realization

  4 Copy quote

• If you're in a subordinate position of some sort and pretty much all of us are at some point in our lives, your general tendency is to try and impress the people above you or person above you so well that they will like you, keep you or maybe promote you. In the process of doing that you are not aware that that person above has insecurities and if you try so hard they may see that you are after their job or that you are better than they are or they might envy the fact you are younger.

  Robert Greene

  Jobs, People, Insecurity

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've noticed that, while I can't help but respect and sort of envy the moral nerve of people who truly do not care what others think of them, people like this also make me nervous, and I tend to do my admiring from a safe distance.

  David Foster

  Distance, Thinking, People

  4 Copy quote

• The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

  Horace

  Horse, Lazy, Packs

  5 Copy quote

• I'm always nervous doing auditions - to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are so cool and cold-blooded when they go in for an audition, especially if it's for a part that you would really love to play.

  Daniel Bruhl

  Hate, Play, Actors

  6 Copy quote

• The least glimmering or shade of acting, in man or woman, is a sure motive of envy in the rest; and, if their malice can't persuade the town's-people into a dislike of their performance, they'll cruelly endeavor to taint their characters.

  Charlotte Charke

  Character, Men, People

  5 Copy quote

• Righteousness is a fuel that, when it has some pitch in it of ambitious rivalry and the damper's left open to envy's draught, makes a hot enough fire to cook somebody's goose in quite a hurry.

  Ardyth Kennelly

  Fire, Ambitious, Hot

  Ardyth Kennelly (1956). “Marry Me, Carry Me”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Yet the people, and even the clergy, incapable of forming any rational judgment of the business of peace and war, presumed to arraign the policy of Stilicho, who so often vanquished, so often surrounded, and so often dismissed the implacable enemy of the republic. The first moment of the public safety is devoted to gratitude and joy; but the second is diligently occupied by envy and calumny.

  Edward Gibbon

  Gratitude, War, People

  Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.552, Modern Library

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion or that of others, we take to be far below us or far above us. So too we compete with those who follow the same ends as ourselves; we compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally with those who are after the same things; and it is therefore these whom we are bound to envy beyond all others. Hence the saying.

  Aristotle

  Sports, Men, People

  10 Copy quote

• Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor.

  Andrew Lo

  Simple, Psychological Disorders, Law

  8 Copy quote

• Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Sorrow, Siege, Repentance

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.814, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Where is your heart? Is your heart with God? Is it with your own ego or your lust? Is it with your greed, your pride, envy, or your resentment? This is a time where you can go into yourself and ask: Where is my heart? Ramadan is a time to give the heart back to the One who possesses the hearts.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Heart, Pride, Giving

  89 Copy quote

• I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken.

  Bertrand Russell

  Beautiful, Hate, Believe

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.125, Routledge

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Out of all virtues simplicity is my most favorite virtue. So much so that I tend to believe that simplicity can solve most of the problems, personal as well as the world problems. If the life approach is simple one need not lie so frequently, nor quarrel nor steal, nor envy, anger, abuse, kill. Everyone will have enough and plenty so need not hoard, speculate, gamble, hate. When character is beautiful, you are beautiful. That is the beauty of simplicity.

  Ela Bhatt

  Beautiful, Hate, Lying

  30 Copy quote

• The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, America, Democratic

  53 Copy quote

• I love a massage and a bath. I don't drink - I'll have a sip, but I've never been drunk - and I don't smoke. I envy people who have those releases. They just have a drink or a cigarette, and they feel better. I have to brave it through the whole day on my own.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Feel Better, People, Drunk

  "Jennifer Gets It Right". Interview with Lesley Goober, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ressentiment is a self-poisoning of the mind which has quite definite causes and consequences. It is a lasting mental attitude, caused by the systematic repression of certain emotions and affects which, as such are normal components of human nature. Their repression leads to the constant tendency to indulge in certain kinds of value delusions and corresponding value judgments. The emotions and affects primarily concerned are revenge, hatred, malice, envy, the impulse to detract, and spite.

  Max Scheler

  Revenge, Attitude, Self

  Max Scheler, Harold J. Bershady (1992). “On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings”, p.117, University of Chicago Press

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.

  Todd Haynes

  Art, Rocks, Frustrated

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• People will envy you to the extent that you start out with a group of people and you rise up the organization faster than them. Get over what your peers are thinking about you because your peers are also your competitors.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Thinking About You, Organization, People

  11 Copy quote

• If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?

  Dennis Prager

  Religious, Passion, Law

  Dennis Prager (2016). “A Dark Time in America”, p.8, Creators Publishing

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is sufficient for you that the one who envies you is distressed at the time of your joy.

  Uthman ibn Affan

  Joy, Sufficient

  124 Copy quote

• Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can…. The art world is high school with money.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, School, Enemy

  5 Copy quote

• We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.

  Alain de Botton

  Class, Feelings, Despair

  Twitter post from Jan 05, 2013

  7 Copy quote

  Show source