Envy Quotes - Page 34

• I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.

  Rachel Weisz

  People, Compliment, Thrive

  "Girl behaving sensibly" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2001.

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• I'm tired of liberals dividing this country up into little groups, setting them upon each other, breeding spite and envy, and then having the nerve to accuse conservatives of hatred.

  Allen West

  Country, Tired, Hatred

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• What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Technology, Immigration, Development

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• The French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P.M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wait for this small dim man to go back to Texas and resume his life.

  Garrison Keillor

  Men, Texas, Waiting

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• Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

  Mark Twain

  Regret, Hero, Simple

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• Yet for all the depression no one ever quit. When someone quit, we couldn't believe it. 'I'm becoming a rafting instructor on the Colorado River,' they said. 'I'm touring college towns with my garage band.' We were dumbfounded. It was like they were from another planet. Where had they found the derring-do? What would they do about car payments? We got together for going away drinks on their final day and tried to hide our envy while reminding ourselves that we still had the freedom and luxury to shop indiscriminately.

  Joshua Ferris

  Believe, College, Colorado River

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• If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that /needs/ no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all... why then perhaps we /must/ stand fast a little --even at the risk of being heroes.

  Robert Bolt

  Hero, Humility, Angel

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• I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot of contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Girl, Memories, Mind

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species. Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Anger, Men

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• 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.

  Dean Koontz

  Daughter, Men, People

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• If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me;
  For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Garden, Feet

  "Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi". Book translated by Fatemeh Keshavarz. Divan 1740:1-3, 1998.

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• . . . Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy--of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure; but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Taken, Moon, Ideas

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2001: A Space Odyssey”, p.34, RosettaBooks

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• Money matters but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude.

  Eric Weiner

  Beach, Gratitude, Thinking

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• I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also experienced compassion and generosity, but only fleetingly and usually while drunk, so I have little memory.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Memories, Compassion, Drunk

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Possible Side Effects”, p.20, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you." The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?" The old man replied simply, "The one you feed.

  Wendy Mass

  Kindness, Regret, Lying

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• The rich are the most discriminated-against minority in the world. Openly or covertly, everybody hates the rich because, openly or covertly, everybody envies the rich. Me, I love the rich. Somebody has to love them. Sure, a lot o’ rich people are assholes, but believe me, a lot o’ poor people are assholes, too, and an asshole with money can at least pay for his own drinks.

  Tom Robbins

  Hate, Believe, People

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• It is true that some have greater power of resistance than others, but everyone has the power to close his heart against doubt, against darkness, against unbelief, against anger, against hatred, against jealousy, against malice, against envy. God has given this power unto all of us, and we can gain still greater power by calling upon Him for that which we lack. If it were not so, how could we be condemned for giving way to wrong influences?

  George Q. Cannon

  Heart, Giving, Hatred

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• It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.

  Isak Dinesen

  Loneliness, Farewell, Men

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• Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.

  Bill Watterson

  Successful, Years, Prison

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• Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here and gone.

  Saigyō

  Flower, Butterfly, Gone

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• A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.

  Tom Stoppard

  Dream, Butterfly, Two

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• There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.

  Joseph Heller

  Disappointment, Achieve, Numbing

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• There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.

  Anna Godbersen

  Pleasure, Scales, Mass

  Anna Godbersen (2014). “The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor”, p.37, Harper Collins

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• My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death.

  Osamu Tezuka

  Teacher, Betrayal, Men

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• Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another - physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.

  Toni Morrison

  Romantic Love, Ideas, Insecurity

  "The Bluest Eye". Book by Toni Morrison, 1970.

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