Quotes and Sayings about Envy

Quotes and Sayings about Envy

What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?

Michael Connelly in The Last Coyote

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls in One Day

But my mum told me it's not good to be jealous, just work hard and keep your head down. Wait your turn.

Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it.

Ibn Taymiyyah

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that!

Oliver Stone

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The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.

John Wycliffe

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

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Moon Satisfaction

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

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Haters don't hate you. They hate themselves because you're a reflection of what they want to be.

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The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

William Penn

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Margaret Atwood in The Handmaid's Tale

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It's not healthy to be jealous.

Victoria Backhem

It's not healthy to be jealous.

Victoria Beckham

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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Jealousy Egoism

Jealousy is the fear to be replaced.

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A jealous female can be tricked into everything.

Hook in Peter Pan

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The Jedi are trained to let go. They're trained from birth. They're not supposed to form attachments. They can love people – in fact, they should love everybody. They should love their enemies; they should love the Sith. But they can't form attachments. So what all these movies are about is: greed. Greed is a source of pain and suffering for everybody.

George Lucas

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Thorin Eichenschild in The Hobbit

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Greed Wise Sayings

To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible.

Calvin in Calvin and Hobbes

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Greed Satisfaction

You see everyone wants everything, that's the way the world is. But I just might actually get it.

Jigo in Princess Mononoke

Greed Climate Change

This is how it's done. When people are sittin' on shit that you want, you make 'em your enemy. Then you're justified in taking it.

Jake Sully in Avatar -

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It's not the having, it's the getting.

Elizabeth Taylor

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Greed Satisfaction

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

William Henry Harrison

Greed Capitalism Wealth & Richness

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

Little Richard

I’ve never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn’t do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.

The man who doesn't want anything is invincible.

Antonio Banderas

Greed Satisfaction

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

Edna Ferber

What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us. Time and time over. They are to be happy in. Where can we live but days?

One Day - Season 1 Episode 1

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.

David Nicholls in One Day

Photography Wise Sayings

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

Michael Connelly

I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love "Tender is the Night," and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.

David Nicholls

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Success is all about having the confidence to shoot for something even if it seems impossible.

You ain't cool if you ain't in a gang
Hours and them hours like Stan
Always got my hood up like Kenny
No killing me, though, I'm the man

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Don't depend too much on anyone in this world, because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.

Ibn Taymiyyah

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I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

Oliver Stone

Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel.

John Wycliffe

I think you need to do something new to keep reinventing yourself.

Change Motivation

Are you telling me that you stop believing in the moon when the sun comes up?

Jack Frost in Rise of the Guardians

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Sometimes in life when you get what you want, you end up missing what you left behind.

J.D. in Scrubs

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Remorse Satisfaction

Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom.

Elon Musk - July 2025

Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor.

Michael Connelly in The Lincoln Lawyer - The Brass Verdict

There is no end of things in the heart. Somebody once told me that. She said it came from a poem she believed in. She understood it to mean that if you took something to heart, really brought it inside those red velvet folds, then it would always be there for you. No matter what happened, it would be there waiting. She said this could mean a person, a place, a dream. A mission. Anything sacred. She told me that it is all connected in those secret folds. Always. It is all part of the same and will always be there, carrying the same beat as your heart.

Michael Connelly in Lost Light

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Was it the happiest day of our lives? Probably not, if only because the truly happy days tend not to involve so much organisation, are rarely so public or so expensive. The happy ones sneak up, unexpected.

David Nicholls in Us

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