(226 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
“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
“Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”
Aeschylus
“The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.”
Jim Rohn
“Who among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely?”
Karen Brademeyer
“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
“Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead”
Mark Twain
“Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts”
Jean Vanier