Top 1200 Jealousy And Envy Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will be represented as mere pretense and artifice, the stale bait for popularity at the expense of the public good.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included, Julie, who choose poetry as their vocation. I envy your faith.

Jealousy is not love, but self-love.

The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world.

Envy makes people lonely, and brings them great suffering. It is horrible stuff to have in our flesh, and it is a sin we need to take deadly seriously.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.

Yeah, I think when you don't make it to the playoffs and you're watching those games, I think there's envy in every game you watch.

Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. [Therefore do not compare your lot with another's lest you see their advantages and lose the joy of what you already have.]

Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.

It was the purest love without purpose other than love itself. Without tenure or jealousy.

Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue, restrains the hand and tramples upon temptations.

To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and has been for at least a hundred and fifty years.

America is a global leader on clean air progress and carbon dioxide reductions, and we are the envy of the world when it comes to clean water.

Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

Some fans keep booing and whistling at me because I'm handsome, rich and a great player. They envy me.

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.

If women envy men, we can now see that it's because of the privileges their anatomy confers and not the anatomy itself.

There are many things in life more worthwhile than money. One is to be brought up in this our England which is still the envy of less happy lands.

A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.

Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.

Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.

If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy.

Perhaps one of the main antidotes to depression, lack of self-esteem, loneliness and so forth is the recognition that we really do have Buddha nature. All the other problems like anger, jealousy, ambitions, are merely habitual patterns that we've learned, but aren't inherent to who we are.

So there I was, with the two hottest girls on campus, having lunch. I was "the man", the envy of every other guy in our school. Buddy, I was miserable." -Bryce Loski

Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world.

Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.

You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.

If we want to eliminate bad qualities like hatred, envy, pride and ostentation, we have to employ Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema and Ahimsa as the cleaning instruments.

One of my favorite things about America is our breathtaking collection of national and state parks, many of which boast wonders the Psalmist would envy.

Everyone feels some jealousy, some anger, and some hostility. Don't feel guilty. But to allow them to become dominant expressions of your way of life is off the wall.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!

O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!

When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.

I'm a frustrated driver. I would love to be out on the track instead of them. I look at them with envy.

I envy Muslims their practice of regular and genuine prayer. It's a beautiful practice that enriches their daily lives.

You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.

You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take care you don't rouse my hate instead. And when you have once extinguished my love, you will find it no easy matter to kindle it again.

All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.

If we destroy the biosphere, then mankind will die. We all waste our time worrying about stupid wars and petty jealousy and greed, and all the time, we're sitting on a time bomb.

There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.

You must control your anger and jealousy and possessive nature or, as you become more powerful and your will increases in strength, you will injure others.

It was granted to me alone to discover all the new phenomena in the sky and nothing to anybody else. This is the truth which neither envy nor malice can supress.

The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.

Whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks the truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly.

I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort of jealousy, and I decided to go to medical school after all.

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.

The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.

There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.

Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or not is another matter.

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.