Quotes about Envy

It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.

It has not only detested beauty when produced at the price of justice; it has rejected the ritual when performed by the morally corrupted. Even religion itself, worship, was not considered to be an absolute. "Your prayers are an abomination," said Isaiah to the exploiters of the poor. Stay away from the synagogue, wrote the Gaon of Wilna to his household, if you cannot abstain from envy and gossiping about the dresses of your fellow attendants.

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.

Every person we envy holds out a piece of the jigsaw about our possible later achievements.

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story.

Envy always follows in the track of virtue: as Horace says, it is ever the mountain top that is smitten by the lightning.

The roots of envy always run deeper and wider than the relationship in which it surfaces.

Comparison is the thief of joy. Theodore Roosevelt

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

Envy is when you resent God's goodness in other people's lives and ignore God's goodness in your own life.