60+ Beautiful Envy Quotes And Sayings
Envy is a feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else’s possessions, qualities, or luck.
1. Whenever someone’s got something you wanted to get, get happy – because this means it’s get-able! – suggests that rather than feel envy, you can choose to feel happiness instead.
Karen Salmansohn
2. Jealousy is a disease. Get well soon
Anonymous
3. Envy’s a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
Philip James Bailey
4. I have also learned why people work so hard to succeed: it is because they envy the things their neighbors have. But it is useless. It is like chasing the wind. 5 They say that we would be fools to fold our hands and let ourselves starve to death. 6 Maybe so, but it is better to have only a little, with peace of mind, than be busy all the time with both hands, trying to catch the wind.
Ecclesiastes
5. They'll hate you if you're pretty. They'll hate you if your not. They'll hate you for what you lack and they'll hate you for what you've got
Anonymous
6. Do not overrate what you have received, or envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Buddha
7. Envy…Blowing out the other person's candle will NOT make yours shine brighter
Anonymous
8. Jealousy, greed and envy won’t get you far in life, because you will always feel discontent and unhappy about yourself, your life and the people around us.
Anonymous
9. People will talk about you when they envy you and the life you lead. Let them. You affected their life. Don’t let them affect yours.
Anonymous
10. Jealousy looks terrible on you, yet you continue to wear it
Anonymous
11. Never envy the SUCCESS of another.. you don't know how much she had to SWEAT to get there
Anonymous
12. Don't envy anybody. Every person has something no one else has. Develop that one thing in yourself, and make it outstanding
Anonymous
13. They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
Sallust
14. Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
Mark Twain
15. Envy and jealousy are very harmful because you are never ever satisfied with what you have and you never reflect on what you have. You constantly live your life on what you do not have.
Tsem Tulku
16. Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success.
Matthieu Ricard
17. Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has.
Elizabeth O’Connor
18. Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
Thomas Browne
19. It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Aeschylus
20. I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing.
Humphry Davy
21. I have never.Been Jealous.Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did
Anonymous
22. The wise will admire you. The wishful will envy you. The weak will hate you. This is the reality for those who dare to be epic.
Steve Maraboli
23. Envy is a little green monster. It tries to tell you that you are not as good as someone else, and never will be.
People envy different things about other people, based on what is or isn’t important to them. Wealth, beauty, a loving relationship, success, popularity…but these are all nice things to have in one’s life.If you ever feel envy inside, ask yourself: 1. What exactly do you envy? 2. Why do you believe it’s important? 3. Why don’t you believe something similar can be true for you?
Doe Zantamata
24. The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
Victor Hugo
25. Love looks through a telescope envy through a microscope.
Anonymous
26. I’m sorry sometimes i get a little jealous thinking that someone else could make you happier than i could. i guess it’s my insecurities acting up. Because i know that i’m not the prettiest, smartest, of must fun and exciting girl. But i do know that no matter how hard and long you look. You’ll never find somebody that loves you like i do.
Anonymous
27. Only a few can support your success without envy.
Anonymous
28. Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
Socrates
29. With envy out of the way, you'll have more room for your own greatness.
Anonymous
30. Never wish you were somebody else because there are people out there envying you for exactly who you are
Anonymous
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31. Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill feeling in your heart.
Abraham Cahan
32. Envy grieves. Jealousy rages.
Mason Cooley
33. Drop jealousy and envy, for they make you ugly. Be loving, be accepting, and most of all… be happy just the way you are.
Leon Brown
34. As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.
Antisthenes
35. Women Should Empower Each Other Instead Of Being So Hateful & Envious Of One Another
Anonymous
36. Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself.
Anonymous
37. Envy is an illusion. When something good happens to someone else it takes NOTHING away from you.
Anonymous
38. Never hate those people who are jealous of you but respect their jealousy because they are the ones who think that you are better than them
Anonymous
39. Insecure people put others down to raise themselves up.
Habeeb Akande
40. Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
Honore De Balzac
41. You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
Anonymous
42. It is better to be envied than pitied.
Anonymous
43. Envy eats nothing, but its own heart
Anonymous
44. Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
Harold Coffin
45. People will talk about you when they envy you and the life you lead. Let them. You affected their life. Don't let them affect yours.
Anonymous
46. Envy me hate me rate me the bottom line is you ain't me
Anonymous
47. Jealousy is a mental cancer
Anonymous
48. Happiness is found when you stop comparing yourself to other people
Anonymous
49. Haters only hate the people they can't be and the things they can't have.
Anonymous
50. Envy slays itself by its own arrows.
Anonymous
51. People can’t enjoy your happiness… they envy your success and try all possible ways to get you to their level because they can stay on equal level with you, without huge efforts.
Venkat Desireddy
52. A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother’s love.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
53. Envy is thin because it bites but never eats
Anonymous
54. 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.
William Arthur Ward
55. Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
Jean Vanier
56. Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own
Anonymous
57. I have also learned why people work so hard to succeed: it is because they envy the things their neighbors have. But it is useless. It is like chasing the wind. 5 They say that we would be fools to fold our hands and let ourselves starve to death. 6 Maybe so, but it is better to have only a little, with peace of mind, than be busy all the time with both hands, trying to catch the wind.
Ecclesiastes
58. Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Buddha
59. Envy blowing out the other person's candle will not make yours shine brighter
Anonymous
60. Jealousy, greed and envy won't get you far in life, because you will always feel discontent and unhappy about yourself, your life and the people around you
Anonymous
61. True confidence has no room for jealously and envy. When you know you are great, you have no reason to hate.
Anonymous