Envy Quotes - Page 29

• My brother, do men grieve over the fight of cats and dogs? So the jealousy, envy, and elbowing of common men should make no impression on your mind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Brother, Cat

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

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• There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

  Horace

  Mean, Golden, Limits

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• The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

  Lucretius

  Levels, Thunderbolts, Summit

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

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• In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Prosperity

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.48, University of Chicago Press

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• Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.

  Bertrand Russell

  Intellectual, Vices, Moral

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.50, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.

  Willard Gaylin

  Jealousy, Struggle, Survival

  Willard Gaylin (1992). “The male ego”, Viking Pr

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• What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Success, Heart, Desire

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.506, Open Road Media

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• I can see the greed and envy in your eyes.

  Nelly

  Eye, Reality, Greed

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• Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate.

  Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

  Love, Kindness, Hate

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• A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Inspiring, Art, Ease

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Kandinsky”, p.59, Parkstone International

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• They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge... no Gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command... But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of Creation; for we knew the Universe when it was young.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Mind, May, Creation

  "Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1962.

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• Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods and the dead can seem perfect with impunity.

  Robert Greene

  Smart, Order, Perfect

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.16, Profile Books

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• There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

  Marie Dressler

  Success, Differences, Twenties

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• In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on envy, resentment and ultimately on a vicious urge to lash out against others for the pain of ones own insignificance. That has been a common thread in things as disparate as ghetto riots, two world wars, and now Islamic terrorism.

  Thomas Sowell

  Pain, War, Islamic

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• Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to think: I might have been in his place.

  Helmut Schoeck

  Thinking, Causes, Elements

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• What good is envy? It’s the one sin you can’t have any fun at.

  Charlie Munger

  Fun, Sin

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• There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.

  Aeschylus

  People, Achievement, Honor

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• Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt.

  Mesa Selimovic

  Love, Hurt, Pain

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• And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry.

  Thomas Browne

  Taken, Men, Years

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Urn-burial, Christian morals, Miscellanies, Correspondence, etc”, p.79

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• I hate fishes, they all look so miserable.
  3 seconds later they will forget.
  And then I envy them.

  Daul Kim

  Hate, Looks, Forget

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• Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.

  Robert Breault

  Society, Half, Depressive

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• If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?

  Pietro Metastasio

  Kindness, Men, Care

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• It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program - on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off - than on any positive task.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Law, People, Hatred

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• Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.

  Peter Drucker

  Evil, Hatred, Driving

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New”, p.249, Transaction Publishers

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• Women who understand how powerful they are do not give into envy over meaningless things, instead they fight to maintain the beautiful bond of the sisterhood. These are the real women who know that we need each other's love & support to survive in this world. Love is the essence of being a woman. We must be that light of love that seals the bond & unique beauty of our sisterhood.

  Bindu

  Beautiful, Powerful, Real

  "Time to Put the ‘Sister’ Back in ‘Sisterhood’" by Sophia A. Nelson, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2013.

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