(262 quotes found)
“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
Winston Churchill
“Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”
Buddha
“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”
Aeschylus
“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
“Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.”
Eubie Blake
“Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts”
Jean Vanier
“Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself”
Helmut Schoeck
“The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“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
