Top 177 Envy Quotes

With colleagues in the work environment, we fail to see the source of their envy or the reason for their manipulations; our attempts at influencing them are based on the assumptions that they want the same things as ourselves.

I don’t envy anybody else’s career because I feel they’ve earned where they’re at and worked hard. I wouldn’t mind Jack White’s gig, though. He does it all!

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

I don’t work a five-day week as a rule, and I’ve managed to fill that time up. It hasn’t been that hard. I volunteer at school. I’m working because I love it. Yet, I don’t not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

I envy the dead.

Disgust is often more deeply buried than envy and anger, but it compounds and intensifies the other negative emotions.

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

While many people overseas envy Korea’s development, it is true that society has many problems such as economic polarization and a low birthrate.

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.

Capitalism is the system that has enabled greatness and made America the envy of the world.

DJ Envy’s definitely talk about me, but I’m one of many. I was under the assumption that he had kids but wasn’t actually married. I found out around the time that I started filming ‘Love & Hip Hop.’ After I found out, I was still in shock because we were together for so long.

Family is so central to Afghan life that all Afghan stories are family stories. Family is something I simply can’t resist because all the great themes of human life – duty, grief, sacrifice, love, envy – you find all those things within families.

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

I was always trying to do architectural jam sessions. But it’s not quite as easy as singing or playing a guitar, so I would always see wonderful live musicians and just envy them that I wasn’t in that medium.

Class envy is dangerous.

People always ask me: How are you? I say I’m the envy of millions. I’ve been a lucky guy.

When the enemies’ land force is once conquered and expelled from the continent, our Marine will rise as if by enchantment and become, within the memory of persons now living, the wonder and envy of the world.

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

I envy Jesus because he’s dead.

The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.

Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had.

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had is a waste of precious energy. Because we are all unique, what makes another happy may do the opposite for you. That’s why advice is nice but often disappointing when heeded.

I’m not married, and I don’t have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, ‘Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?’

When you do well, everybody’s after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes it’s envy and jealousy.

Family is so central to Afghan life that all Afghan stories are family stories. Family is something I simply can’t resist because all the great themes of human life – duty, grief, sacrifice, love, envy – you find all those things within families.

I envy the people who say, ‘oh, well, I’ve got my name in the golden book and I’m going to be entered into the pearly gates.’

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.

I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish – a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious designation of time each day devoted to remembering the lost person.

When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.

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.

I don’t envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day – that’s insane.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

I have never been given to envy – save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.

The United States has the world’s largest and most innovative economy, an unmatched rule of law, and a free market that is the envy of the international community. For investors, we are the reserve currency.

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.

I am unable to eat what I want to and always work hard to maintain my body and looks. I envy other women who have a free lifestyle.

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.

There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have never given a moment’s thought to anything, and comprehend everything. ‘Blessed hands’ is the name bestowed on these fortunate beings. The world envies, honours and respects them.

In my own life, hate has consumed me at times. Or envy. When my TV show was canceled, I didn’t think it deserved to be canceled because people liked it. It was canceled for the wrong reasons, you know? I was consumed with hate for about a year.

Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of the private sector.

I don’t envy men and I certainly wouldn’t like to become one now.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

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

I think there’s a big price to pay for consciousness, knowing that it’s all going to end and we’re mortal. I envy dogs. They don’t know they’re getting old! And they don’t know it’s towards the end. I mean, they never think, ‘I used to get by on 16 hours of sleep a day. Now, if I don’t get 19, I’m a wreck.’

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they’re going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy – but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.

Silicon Valley’s long-running track record of creating globally disruptive startups is the envy of the world.

If I had one wish, I would say to be born in the ’30s and be young in the ’50s and ’60s. It hurts my racing heart when I see things so far from what it was back then. I envy those guys so much.

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

But if you look at Victoria’s Secret models, honestly, young girls don’t necessarily look up to them for the healthiest reasons. It’s more about the envy, the desire to look aesthetically best: it’s an unattainable, elitist mindset.

Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country in the world attracts the jealousy of others in much the same way that the richest, most powerful man in a small town attracts the jealousy of others.