94 Quotes Tagged: envy

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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

People who take you for granted would be mad at those who regard you as something.

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

Don't try to impress a loser because If one is not happy about the things happening in their life, one cannot be happy about the things happening in someone else's life.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Aeschylus, ancient Athenian playwright

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To create real wealth you must abandon your limited thinking, eliminate boundaries, and stop defining the outcome. Most importantly it means not letting people motivated by jealousy, greed, and envy dictate what your limitations are.

You have to take risks in life. Your actions are what count.

Ziad K. Abdelnour, Lebanese-born American investment banker, financier, activist and author

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There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

People's envy shows how unhappy they feel; their constant attention to the doings of others how bored they are.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Booker T. Washington, African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor (1856-1915)

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Indeed, people never truly forgive those they've once been forced to admire.

Every flower blooms at its own pace.

I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.

Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies deeper than thought. It is always there, like a blackness in the eye, it discolours the world.

Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself, but, when the speaker rises above him, jealousy is aroused and he begins to be incredulous.

Thucydides, 5th-century BC Athenian historian and general

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