Some people can’t stand to see others succeed with their dreams. But little do they know that it is a blessing to know a lot of successful people, because they can motivate one to push...

She was wearing her fuzzy pink hat and she was happy, which was so obnoxious. She’d become one of those people who waltzed through life without so much as a split end, and I was...

Envy is an envious person and truth they don’t like to wear

I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger’s gray head.

Envy’s a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

I admire Shakespeare enormously. But since I can’t be him, I’m glad that his marriage was unhappy and he’s dead.

Rivalry discovers that courtesy overlooks.

Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rots their souls, allowing them to justify their meanness and their greed until they believe these to be...

When you have wit of your own, it’s a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

I’ve always looked on criticism as a sort of envious tribute.

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

Envy aims very high.

That’s what is was to be young — to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Envy yearns to find flaws.

Gain fame, and the paparazzi or media waits and watches for them to slip, just to shame their name.

I think that the most beautiful of people are like exquisite serpents— glorious sheen, glorious patterns and elaborate grace— but you do wrong to cast envy upon them, lest you want to also taste of...

Judgement is so often a thwarted, frustrated expression of envy.

When you understand who you are by knowing what God created you to do, you have no room for becoming jealous over what someone else is doing.

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

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

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

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

You know, sometimes I even envy myself.

People you’ve known, seemingly forever, may claim to have love for you, but when gossip’s tainted tongue whips you – they don’t show enough love to weigh your history against false witness. Be that as...

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

He beat me when you not here, I say.Who do, she say, Albert?Mr ____, I say.I can’t believe it, she say. She sit down on the bench next to me real hard, like she drop.What...

Stretch an unwavering tenacity when facing bad to worse attitudes.

I wish I am like someone else”, you are attempting to take alongside someone’s limitation you may not be able to manage.

The problem with some people is that they mentally limit themselves in life, but then turn around and become very envious of those who aren’t willing to settle for less.

I have found much in people to love but nothing to envy.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Envy is the result of the effect that you have made on someone else’s life, whether they want to accept it or not.

I think envy motivates a lot of people.

Envy is for people who don’t have the self-esteem to be jealous.

To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girlfriends.

Everyone wanted to see [him] fall so they could devour his remains. As is usually the case, the army of sycophants had turned into a horde of hungry hyenas

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.

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...

Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.

Do not share your thoughts with people who think that what you are thinking is not worth thinking.

Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself, but, when the speaker rises above him, jealousy is aroused...

The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many ingenious men from ushering opinions into the world which deviate from common practice....

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

Freundschaft, ou quelque chose comme ça. Ta meilleure amie gagne un million au Loto, t’es contente pour elle et, en même temps, tu peux pas t’empêcher de penser avec rage: “Pourquoi pas moi?”.J’adore Ariane, mais...

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

A hopeful life is a successful life. People who bury their hopes and crave for someone’s success never know that their diamond is hidden as they envy other’s silver!

Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today — gluttony, fornication,...

Envy, bitter envy, was permeating his soul drop by drop, like a poison that tainted all his pleasures and made his life hateful.