“Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts”
Jean Vanier
“Don't let nobody overshadow your greatness, for you were intrusted with this gift! So, protect it with your life if you must!”
Philip T. M.
“Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied”
Mark Twain
“There comes a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better, or for worse as his portion.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
Winston Churchill
“To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.”
Simone Weil