Quotes about Envy

We accept our humanity intellectually, but not emotionally. When faced with our own limitations, we react with irritation, anger, and resentment. We want to be taller (or shorter), smarter, stronger, more talented, more beautiful, and wealthier. We want to have it all and do it all, and we become upset when it doesn't happen. Then when we notice that God gave others characteristics we don't have, we respond with envy, jealousy, and self-pity.

the two biggest hindrances to living the life God designed you to live: Wanting to be like others (envy), and wanting to be liked by others (people-pleasing.) These traps are subtle, but they distract and detour millions of people from the purposes they were created to fulfill.

Envy asks, "Why them? Why do they get what I don't have?" Gratitude asks, "Why me? Why do I get all that I have?" David

Solomon noted that envy is the reason why most people overwork!

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

Jealousy does not wait for reasons.

Where the grass is greener, the water bill is bigger.

The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God

Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.

The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one.

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.

There is not a single soul that jealousy looks good on. Nobody! It looks ugly on everybody and it makes us act ugly - it makes us act out of character.