Top 1200 Envy And Success Quotes & Sayings

There are people who envy you and don't want to see you succeed, but there are also people who pray for your success.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.

I refuse to give into the sad reflex of French envy because this envy paralyzes our country.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy the pretensions we have, and those which we have not, and do not even wish for. We envy the greatest qualities and every trifling advantage. We envy the most ridiculous appearance or affectation of superiority. We envy folly and conceit; nay, we go so far as to envy whatever confers distinction of notoriety, even vice and infamy.

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

Envy is more irreconcilable than hate. It is the most corroding of all political vices and also a great power in our land. The friends of freedom are content to be envied, but envy not.

In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of envy can lead to emulation and ambition and have positive consequences.

Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.

I envy my dad and his faith. I envy all people who have someone to beseech, who know where they're going, who sleep under the fluffy white comforter of belief.

Envy never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.

Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn't dependent on anyone else.

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

I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.

Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation.

School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity.

Love rejoices in good wherever it finds it; envy is pained by good, and the sight of the happiness of others hurts the eyes and the heart of the envious man. Love wishes to give; envy would rather receive. Love creates; envy destroys. Love builds up; envy pulls down. Love helps those in need, comforts the afflicted, and strives to turn all that is evil into good; envy would turn the little happiness to be found in this world into evil, sorrow, and pain.

Fiercely guard the passions burning inside your heart, so that their flames can safely reach the highest ceilings of success without the eyes of envy.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

The perfect antidote to envy is not, as you may suspect, perfect success. The perfect antidote to envy is self-love - when you know deep inside that you are on the absolutely right path for yourself, or you are in the process of uncovering what that path is, and you are doing the best you can right now given all the external and internal parameters.

Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning.

What is envy? It is nothing but passive jealousy. Maybe jealousy is too strong a phenomenon; envy is a little passive. The difference may be of degrees, but it is not of quality, it is only of quantity. Envy can become jealousy at any moment; envy is just jealousy in progress. Mind has to drop all envies and jealousies.

Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.

For all the unkind things said about envy, it would only be fair to acknowledge that not all envy is destructive. If envy leads us to work hard and to improve our skills, it becomes a stimulant to self-improvement. God has given us no quality that cannot be used for good.

Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

Let’s face it: There are people who won’t be happy when you get too blessed. There are people who feel threatened by your success. There are people who, out of envy, will just not like you anymore.

Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.

If the Angels could envy, they would envy us for Holy Communion.

Don't envy the harvest of the rich. Envy their planting.

I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.

It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

The word "jealousy" is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is predominantly concerned with the fear of loss of something one possesses, envy with the wish to own something another possesses. Othello suffers from the fear that he has lost Desdemona's love. Iago suffers from envy of the position held by Cassio, to which he feels entitled.

If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy us for two things: one is the receiving of Holy Communion, and the other is suffering.

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune. Envy no one, and you need envy no one.

Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

If you envy me whatever modicom of success that I enjoy, you must also envy me my time, my labour, my finance, my anxiety, my frustration and my determination. Jose Sulaiman is the greatest boxing man that I have ever met. I think he is a knight in shining armour for the boxer, but I always insulate myself with the rules.

I'm not a completely envy-free zone - I envy 25-year-old men with magnificent bodies - but when I look at my colleagues on the whole, I don't think I have much to envy!

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

envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.

The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.

Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.

Benign envy can sound a lot like admiration. The difference is that, while admiration feels good, envy is painful.

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.

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

You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever he grieves.

Envy, envy eats them alive. If you had money, they’d envy you that. But since you don’t, they envy you for having such a good, bright, loving daughter. They envy you for just being a happy man. They envy you for not envying them. One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren’t happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.

Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility , because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

When envy lies within a woman's heart it cuts into her soul & gives her a toxic spirit. It is truly something to be disgusted by. I have experienced it so much in my own life that I can sense the energy of envy without any communication from the other person. It lingers in the air to pollute your environment. Envy is a brutal force of bad vibes sucking the love right out of your heart.