Envy Quotes - Page 6

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

  Herodotus

  Secret, Absence, Secret To Success

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• A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Happiness, Smile, Mom

  "Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented". Volume II,

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• The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

  William Hazlitt

  Player, Poet, Vocation

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.313

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• Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.

  David O. McKay

  Gossip, Mind, Vacant

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• Sympathy one receives for nothing, envy must be earned.

  Robert Lembke

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• With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.

  Charles Churchill

  Pale, Turns, Envied

  Charles Churchill (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churcill: With memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes”, p.6

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• Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

  E. W. Howe

  Friendship, Gossip, Abuse

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• 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

  Pride, Conceited, Thinking

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• The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Heart, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Writings”, Library of America

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• How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

  Herodotus

  Envied

  Herodotus (1875). “The History of Herodotus: A New English Version, Ed. with Copious Notes and Appendices, Illustrating the History and Geography of Herodotus, from the Most Recent Sources of Information; and Embodying the Chief Results, Historical and Ethnographical, which Have Been Obtained in the Progress of Cuneiform and Hieroglyphical Discovery”, p.372

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• Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

  Dante Alighieri

  Heart, Pride, Men

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• The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Jealousy, Jealous People

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.188

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• I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.

  Paul Simon

  Forgiveness, Heart, Soul

  Song: Wartime Prayers

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• Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Friends, Real, Ignorance

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• Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of one's enemy; its wages to be sure of it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Jealousy, Passion, Enemy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1849). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think”, p.39

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• Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Thinking, Choices

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.101, Univ of California Press

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• Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Success, Men, Aptitude

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1850). “Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life; Or, The Autobiography of Goethe”, p.92

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• What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and easy to fool. Democratic politicians must appeal to these masses in order to be elected. Whoever is the best demagogue will win. Almost by necessity, then, democracy will lead to the perversion of truth, justice and beauty.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Beauty, Beautiful, Truth

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• I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Hate, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [78]

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• Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Men, Ease

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 197

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• Here's a practice for dealing with envy...each time you find yourself envious of someone...ask yourself, "What is there that I am noticing in the other person that I want to find in myself?"...If it's money, is it the freedom? The cance to play that money buys? A sense of security? Whatever it is-more play, a sense of security, free time-you can work on getting more of it in your life, no matter what the circumstances.

  M. J. Ryan

  Gratitude, Play, Practice

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• What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lying, Roots, Evil

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• Gloucestershire police must be the envy of the human rights-abusing cop world. From Turkey to Indonesia they will say, 'Kidnapping peace protestors! How did they get away with that one?'

  Mark Thomas

  Rights, Turkeys, Police

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

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Believe, Heart, Men

  Claude Adrien Helvétius (1777). “A Treatise on Man, His Intellectual Faculties and His Education: A Posthumous Work of M. Helvetius. Translated from the French, with Additional Notes, by W. Hooper, ...”, p.291

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• The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.

  Alain de Botton

  People, Generosity, May

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