Top 1200 Envy Me Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.

Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.

Jealousy is the fire of envy that seeks to destroy another's beauty, rather than to create its own.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

Living in Manhattan opened me to whole new sets of things to envy, study, gather and imagine stealing. A full-size 1809 German harp, beautifully painted with three goddesses, covered in a pea-green coat of great silvery refinement: mine for $180. Though all its strings were broken, its beauty let it claim a quarter of my one - bedroom.

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

I envy Pete Sampras's dullness. I wish I could emulate his spectacular lack of inspiration.

Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can…. The art world is high school with money.

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness.

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

America was and still is able to make the necessary changes to maintain research institutions that are the envy of the world.

Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.

Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

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

This country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Oh, you happy sons of the North who have been reared at the bosom of Bach, how I envy you!

Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.

I envy Jonghyun's technique and energy, Onew's voice, Key's rapping skills and Minho's looks.

As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy.

It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence.

Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.

There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart.

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

I have a learning disability when it comes to languages, I envy actors like Prakash Raj and my kids who do it with such ease.

But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are too poor to escape the reality of their lives; and they are too poor to live properly in the place where they live, which is the very place you, the tourist, want to go--so when the natives see you, the tourist, they envy you, they envy your ability to leave your own banality and boredom, they enjoy your ability to turn their own banality and boredom into a source of pleasure for yourself.

Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.

Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure. Then I get bitter: I am not loved enough to be supported. That I am not a burden has to compensate for the sad envy when I look at women loved enough to be supported. Even now China wraps double binds around my feet.

Drop jealousy and envy, for they make you ugly. Be loving, be accepting, and most of all... be happy just the way you are.

Does it feel good to stand on my stage with 500-pound tigers and everybody envy you? Absolutely.

In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

An Oscar clears the deck of envy and resentment. You think, 'Well, I've got that. I can relax now.'

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner.

Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

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

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

In 20 years, I'm going to - I'm sure - envy the body that I have now. I look fabulous and it's important to celebrate.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency.

I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.

Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.

The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established.

Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.