Quotes Tagged "envious"

Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you'll feel is regret.

Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.

It is hard not to envy. So dreadfully hard. Within my sight, within my reach, my senses are bathed in what I wish for, coveting the tiniest taste of what I know is not mine. Turn away. Do not be jealous. It is hard not to envy.

It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to think well of yourself while you are envious.

Some people are each way more hurt by their worst enemy’s success than they were hurt by their then best friend’s death.

Be careful when shining the light of your success among those with an envious spirit, for there will be no celebration for your success within a robbery.

Our successes are seldom as sweet as our enemies’ failures.

Some of the people who we envy for having something we lack envy us for lacking something they have.

We sometimes congratulate someone, not because we value or find worthy what they have just achieved, but only because we fear coming across as jealous.