Quotes by Envy Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart. Abraham Cahan envy fighting heart This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high. Abraham Cowley envy mean lying envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it. Ada Leverson recognition merit envy Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions. Adam Smith envy want men He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. Aeschylus admiration envy literature There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy. Aeschylus envy achievement people The unenvied man is not enviable. Aeschylus envy men In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him. Aeschylus prosperity envy men Envy-Thy art blindness Aftab Alam blindness envy art the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work. Agnes Repplier envy good-work purpose There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way. Agnes Repplier envy wish way Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness. Agnes Repplier selfishness envy men How do I think of you? As someone I want to be with. As someone as young as me, but "older," if that makes sense. As someone I like to look at, not just because you're good to look at, but because just looking at you makes me smile and feel happier. As someone who knows her mind and who I envy for that. As someone who is strong in herself without seeming to need anyone else to help her. As someone who makes me thinks and unsettles me in a way that makes me feel more alive. Aidan Chambers envy strong thinking I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways. Aimee Mann envy careers trying Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions. Alain de Botton envy confused ambition No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfillment. Alain de Botton envy pain art We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness. Alain de Botton envy feelings class In the gap between who we wish one day to be Alain de Botton envy anxiety pain We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends. Alain de Botton close-friends envy groups In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well. Alain de Botton envy writing running 1234567891011»
