Envious Quotes

Envious Quote of the day

Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer.

The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself

Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle.

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.

...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic.

The envious are more likely to be mollified by seeing others deprived of some advantage than by gaining it for themselves. It is not what they lack that chiefly troubles them, but what others have.

And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .

A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.

When I see other rappers' lyrics of "I don't do what I don't like to do", I feel like it's really cool and there's also an envious side to me about it.

Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much." Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your little is worse than the worst of my much, I will keep on doing so.

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

One should not be envious of someone who has prospered by unjust deeds. Nor should he disdain someone who has fallen while adhering to the path of righteousness.

When you make your mark in the world, watch out for the envious with erasers.

So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation.

The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.

An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.

Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.

I hope we can be happy where we are, be grateful for our blessings-now-here, accept the challenge that is ours and make the most of it, and don't be envious of others. God help us to be grateful.

For him in vain the envious seasons roll Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.

‎"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial

I'm not envious of Leo [Messi]or Ney [Neymar]. Why would I be? If there is envy in the dressing room, you know it's only going to affect results.

It's okay to be envious - but only of the person you aspire to become.

RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.

The Americans are so much more positive. They are much more in love with success. In Britain, they're a fairly envious bunch, and they love it if you fail.

Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

The envious will die, but envy never.

I know that I have a lot of friends who are envious of me. But if there is something to be gained, obviously something else has to be lost, right? Lately I miss the things I’ve lost.

As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself

Satan the envious said with a sigh: Christians know more about their hell than I

I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone - and this is my biggest satisfaction.

For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him.

Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. To-day it is for thee; tomorrow it is against thee. It arms the eyes of the envious every where. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.

Directing a movie is the greatest job in the world. I could not be more envious of the guys who get to do it all the time.

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

Those who object to wit are envious of it.