Top Envy Quotes

A rose, no matter how beautiful, still has to contend with thorns.

People who hate you because of a mere jealousy over your success hurt themselves in disguise. This is because you carry an image of who they wish they had become. Don't hate them back because they may...

Envy Definition

(n.) Malice; ill will; spite.

(n.) Chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with some degree of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages; malicious grudging; -- usually followed by of; as, they did this in envy of Caesar.

(n.) Emulation; rivalry.

(n.) Public odium; ill repute.

(n.) An object of envious notice or feeling.

(v. t.) To feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it.

(v. t.) To feel envy on account of; to have a feeling of grief or repining, with a longing to possess (some excellence or good fortune of another, or an equal good fortune, etc.); to look with grudging upon; to begrudge.

(v. t.) To long after; to desire strongly; to covet.

(v. t.) To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.

(v. t.) To hate.

(v. t.) To emulate.

(v. i.) To be filled with envious feelings; to regard anything with grudging and longing eyes; -- used especially with at.

(v. i.) To show malice or ill will; to rail.

You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of other people's opinions of you.

The higher you rise, the smaller your enemies.

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

Rising amateurs always intimidate falling masters.

Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself, but, when the speaker rises above him, jealousy is aroused and he begins t...

Because thankfulness is the tonic that always cures the cancers of greed, envy and jealously, it should be taken in liberal doses daily.

A flower does not diminish in beauty, no matter how many weeds envy it.

If the grass is greener on the other side, start watering your own.

When I envied a man's spurs then they were indeed worth coveting.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire.Another life is never safely envied.

Excellence annoys your haters, success infuriates them, and genius kills them.

I know you don't think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense. A child born mid-flight has no nation. I can pull on either culture, but they always melt li...

Do you know, I sometimes, catch myself wishing that I too were blind to the facts of life and only knew its fancies and illusions. They're wrong, all wrong, of course, and contrary to reason; but in t...

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.

One who throws stones at others has less to use to build his own house.

You can curse the sun a thousand times, but cannot keep it from shining, even for a day.