Quotes about Envy

Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story.

Envy always follows in the track of virtue: as Horace says, it is ever the mountain top that is smitten by the lightning.

The roots of envy always run deeper and wider than the relationship in which it surfaces.

Comparison is the thief of joy. Theodore Roosevelt

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

Envy is when you resent God's goodness in other people's lives and ignore God's goodness in your own life.

The classes of citizens are three. The rich are useless, always lusting after more. Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues; their malice stings the owners. Of the three, the middle part saves cities.

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

A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won't have time to envy the man above him.