Envy Quotes Quotes

Stars do not pull each other down to be more visible, they shine brighter.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If a lion turned every time small dogs barked at it, it would be the laughing stock of the jungle.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The road to success is paved with doubters and haters.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If the grass is greener on the other side, start watering your own.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The bigger the bricks critics throw at you the bigger the palace you are going to build.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When your critics raise hell keep building your heaven.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Believe in yourself, not in your critics.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The opinion of success matters more than the opinions of your critics.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you listen to critics for too long, you will become deaf to success.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The higher you rise, the smaller your enemies.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Critics are loud, but success is louder.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Loud critics are silenced by loud success.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

People only stone a tree that is full of ripe fruit.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

One who throws stones at others has less to use to build his own house.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A rose does not lose sleep because it was mocked by weeds.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Because the moon is not jealous of the sun, it benefits from its light.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You can curse the sun a thousand times, but cannot keep it from shining, even for a day.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is in vain to stone the sky, no matter how big the rock is.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If roses were not special weeds would not envy them.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

In order to bring down the great, you have to be able to reach the stars.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You have not accomplished anything significant if no one envies you.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Rising amateurs always intimidate falling masters.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Critics do not determine how high an eagle flies.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Small people have small minds, and thus deride big dreamers.Small people have small hearts, and thus disparage big chancers.Small people have small souls, and thus disdain big achievers.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Do not trust everyone who smiles at you;some admire your achievements,but some misunderstand them,and many more envy them.Jealousy is like the sky:everywhere on everyone.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Envy is the desire to have what someone else has. Jealousy is the fear of losing what you have. The more insecure you are about yourself or your relationship, the more jealous you are, because you are afraid to lose your significant other to someone else.

~ Oliver Markus

If you cannot be happy with the little you have, you can be confused with the lot you want to have

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Envy: Instead of focusing on your own goals, your goal becomes throwing off the rails other people’s goals and at the end of the day you gain nothing but a mischievous satisfaction that you have destroyed someone’s dream

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

When they try to judge you,remember, they themselves are judged.When they try to condemn you,remember, they themselves are condemned.When they try to break you,remember, they themselves are broken.When they try to hurt you,remember, they themselves are hurting.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You become strong by lifting others up, not pulling them down.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Those who envy you inadvertently admit to being inferior to you.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When an eagle spreads its wings to fly, even the swan is envious.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is not the fault of the stars that they shine brightly, but the fault of our eyes that they cannot handle light.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of other people's opinions of you.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When they judge you, yawn.When they misunderstand you, smile.When they underestimate you, laugh.When they condemn you, ignore.When they envy you, rejoice.When they oppose you, prevail.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Do not hold grudges against those who try to keep you down; the higher you go, the smaller they become. Do not trust those who try to push you down once you are up;the more envious they are, the more dangerous they become.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Roses do not take beauty advice from weeds.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

There is no greater beast than envy, no greater thief than fear, no greater enemy than greed, no greater predator than wrath, and no greater poison than bitterness.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo