Quotes related to James 3:16
Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.
— Ayn Rand
Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.
— Ann Voskamp
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
— St. Augustine
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
— Samuel Johnson
Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Fill'd the air with barbarous dissonance.
— John Milton
Envy is the offspring of pride,
— Ellen White
these people would indeed only be concerned for themselves, for their egoism, just like the bandit, from whom they are distinguished only by the absurdity of their means.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The businessman who wishes to gain a market by throttling a superior competitor, the worker who wants a share of his employer's wealth, the artist who envies a rival's higher talent - they're all wishing facts out of existence and destruction is the only means of their wish. If they pursue it, they will not achieve a market, a fortune, or an immortal fame - they will merely destroy production
— Ayn Rand
Worry soils, even the purest mind.Envy poisons, even the purest heart.Greed sullies, even the purest soul.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
— Erica Jong
And then they say one is misanthropical. Hang it! who can help being misanthropical when he finds everybody getting on in life except himself?
— Benjamin Disraeli