Envious Quotes

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.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no longer love, only because they do not want to have a reason or another reason to be jealous of the person who would eventually be their lover if they let go of them.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

He who is jealous is better off not dating someone who is bisexual.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in the most civilised manner and I forget myself. I forget the poem. I forget the ...

~ Kamand Kojouri

My love, you are driving the entire world mad. The nightingales are committing suicide one by one out of jealousy of your voice. The roses took one glance at your beauty and folded themselves from shame. The trees now only whisper your name and the sky hasn’t stopped crying since you looked up. Have pity on us, my love. We have already broken all the mirrors and glass out of fear that you will forget us and fall in love with yourself once you see what we all cannot stop seeing.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Is it odd, my love, that I envy others who have not met you for the intoxication they have yet to experience? Is it odd that I wish to witness you with new eyes so I may have the pleasure of falling for you all over again? I am grateful, so grateful, for knowing the meaning of your various sighs. For being the cause of your ecstatic cries. But, if only for a moment, I wish to let you fall out of my hands so that I may catch you again. You, my love, are the oddity. You are my exception.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a man is jealous of his own car, house, wardrobe, or salary.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some people are each envious of the person they used to be.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The way you think about yourself determines your reality. You are not being hurt by the way people think about you. Many of those people are a reflection of how you think about yourself.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make).

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If people are jealous of you, it means you are worth something.

~ Amit Kalantri

At the bottom of the mountain you have your scoffers and doubters, by midpoint you have your envious and haters, and when you reach to the top you have new friends and family you never met or thought existed.

~ Anthony Liccione

It is very normal for one ugly weed to not want to stand alone.

~ Suzy Kassem

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

~ Antisthenes Pinto

Life is not a competition.There is enough work for everybody. Find your passion and fulfill it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Many people, who should have been rejoicing for what they've achieved, are rather regretting just because of one reason; they looked at what someone else was doing. Comparison eliminates contentment and then kills inner joy!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The goodness of a person is normally judged based upon how they act towards those whom they consider to be less fortunate than themselves. This has become the standard for measuring the goodness of a person. But this is erroneous. It is in fact very easy to be good to those whom you consider to be less fortunate than yourself. You know what's difficult? Being good to those you envy! That is what's difficult to do! People believe themselves to practice equality because they are good to those who are lesser than they are, but this is not equality if they do not show the same amount of goodness to the people who happen to be more than they are. I always look at how a person treats those who are more than they are, and that is how I determine the goodness in a person. Because the other option is just too easy. The other option comes with all benefit and no loss.

~ C. Joybell C.

She's in trouble, but I envy her.

~ Denice Envall

Your dreams come crushing down when you tow the wrong path by looking at what others are doing. The Milky Way Galaxy would have been crushed down by now if each planet had left its own orbit to revolve elsewhere!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A hopeful life is a successful life. People who bury their hopes and crave for someone’s success never know that their diamond is hidden as they envy other’s silver!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Never surround yourself with people who are envious of your ambitions. Decide to be at the right place at the right time and save yourself for greater opportunities.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

What was it like to be so confident even in your failings that you weren't the least bit bothered when other people pointed them out? I was almost envious.

~ Sarah Dessen

Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Saturated Arrogance...imprisoned musescried to be freeshe took away their quillsand saiddo not bother me...

~ Muse

Saturated Arrogance...she rebuked those about herin darkness did she dwella pathetic historyall mortal man would tell..

~ Muse

Don't envy what people have, emulate what they did to have it.

~ Tim Fargo

When you're working, some people relax and wait for the invisible right time, but when they see your fortune, they wake up and strategize an envious attack.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Why does that kid think so highly of himself?Kids that think they're so smart.They're everywhere! Destroy is self-esteem!Yes...I really do think highly of myself.People like me should get a taste of the ups and downs of life! Sorry I'm so envious.I will reflect upon this. Please don't be angry.Ah..um..There, I said it now. Are you satisfied? ........Bye

~ Natsuki Takaya

It's silly to think the left eye would envy the right or that one foot would be jealous of the other, and yet so often it is the case.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

He who makes $25,000 annually through passive income is more enviable than he who earns $100,000 annually through a salary.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Envy yearns to find flaws.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Once she was standing by her locker and her puka shells broke and scattered and she made a joke about it but he could tell she was upset. He wanted to buy her some more. He wanted to give her a million strands of little nesting polished shells, and tropical flowers and ice creams and lemonades and a pale blue surfboard to teach her to surf on and anything else she wanted. Instead he let his checkered Vans step on one of the rolling shells and crush it.

~ Francesca Lia Block

When the sun rises it casts a shadow on what does not shine as bright as it.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

~ Oscar Wilde