Top 50+ Envy Quotes

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you. – Marilyn Monroe

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn’t yours. But grief comes from losing something you’ve already had. – Jodi Picoult

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous. – Rabindranath Tagore

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build. – Margaret Thatcher

Carrying envy makes life more difficult. – Kym Whitley

Envy does not allow humanity to sleep. – Carl Jung

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. – Franois de la Rochefoucauld

Envy is for people who don’t have the self-esteem to be jealous. – Bauvard

Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly. – Malcolm X

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. – John Berger

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own. – Harold Coffin

Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form. – Norman Macdonald

Envy Quotes

Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy. – Claudian

We ought to compliment and not to compete with one another. – Lailah Gifty Akita

Nothing sharpens sight like envy. – Thomas Fuller

Base envy withers at another’s joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach. – James Thomson

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. – Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Envy is thin because it bites but never eats. – Spanish Proverb

Envy not greatness: for thou mak’st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater. – George Herbert Quotes

Envy eats nothing, but its own heart.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. – William Shenstone

Envy does not enter an empty house. – Danish Proverb

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others it only changes yours. – Shannon L. Alder

Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. – Peter S. Beagle

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy. – William Shenstone

Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes, but so is longing to be envied. – Criss Jami

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. – William Penn

All envy is proportionate to desire. – Dr. Johnson.

Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true. – Alexander Pope Quotes

Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want. – Robert Bringle

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. – Baltasar Gracian

Envy lies between two beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances. – Jeremy Collier.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor. – Socrates

Envy is like a fly that passes all the body’s sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. – Arthur Chapman Quotes

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. – Baltasar Gracian

Many men profess to hate another, but no man owns envy, as being an enmity or displeasure for no cause but goodness or felicity. – Jeremy Taylor.

Envy Quotes

Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts. – Jean Vanier

Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied. – Mark Twain

Envy sets the stronger seal on desert, if he have no enemies, I should esteem his fortune most wretched. – Ben Jonson.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad. – Tacitus

Some people suffer from the green-eyed monster called envy. – Ana Monnar

Don’t waste you energy to compare your life with others. – Lailah Gifty Akita

Men that make envy and crooked malice nourishment, dare bite the best. – Shakespeare.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has. – Frank Tyger Quotes

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own. – Harold Coffin