Envy Quotes And Sayings

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“If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.” 
– Debbie Macomber

“I don’t work a five-day week as a rule, and I’ve managed to fill that time up. It hasn’t been that hard. I volunteer at school. I’m working because I love it. Yet, I don’t not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.”
– Deidre Hall 

“God‘s truth judges created things out of love, and Satan’s truth judges them out of envy and hatred.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer 

“I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.”
– Dustin Hoffman 

“The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.”
– Elbert Hubbard 

“Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that.”
– Eliot Spitzer 

“To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.”
– Emile M. Cioran 

“I live my life, breathless… A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!”
– Eric Burdon 

“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.”
– Erich Fromm 

“Never trust anyone who wants what you’ve got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.”
– Eubie Blake 

“People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise.”
– Evander Holyfield 

“Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.” 
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and ’60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.”
– Fareed Zakaria 

“Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.”
– Francis Beaumont 

“People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld 

“The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld 

“Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld 

“I’m pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It’s impressive.”
– Freddie Highmore 

“The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it’s a constitution that’s the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it’s the most generous nation in the world.”
– Gary Oldman 

“By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.”
– George Bancroft 

“If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.”
– George Byron 

“On every movie I’ve done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don’t envy them, at all.”
– Griffin Dunne

“To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy – this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.”
– Gustav Stresemann 

“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.”
– Harold Coffin 

“Communism possesses a language which every people can understand – its elements are hunger, envy, and death.”
– Heinrich Heine 

“Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.”
– Helen Gurley Brown 

“Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.”
– Henry Fielding 

“You can say I had a severe case of ‘Roots’ envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to… do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.”
– Henry Louis Gates 

“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”
– Heraclitus 

“Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.”
– Horace 

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