1. Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.

- Billy Graham

2. Men, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits.

- Moderata Fonte

3. A lot of people get so hung up on what they can’t have that they don’t think for a second about whether they really want it.

- Lionel Shriver

4. Don’t be envious. Be inspired.

- Thibaut

5. A sign of wealth: no envy, no fear.

- Greg Isenberg

6. It is not greed that drives the world, but envy.

- Warren Buffett

7. Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

8. It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

- Aeschylus

9. Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

- Vittorio De Sica

10. Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

- Francis Beaumont

11. Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

12. Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

- Petrarch

13. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more approachable.

- Robert Greene

14. I envy my daughter’s childhood.

- Rene Russo

15. Take heed you harbor not that vice called Envy, lest another’s happiness be your torment, and God’s blessing become your curse.

- Wellins Calcott

16. Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

- Thomas Browne

17. It is never wise to seek or wish for another’s misfortune. If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

- Charley Reese

18. ‘Mediocrity’ doesn’t mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

- Ayn Rand

19. Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

- Joseph Epstein

20. Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.

- Chi Chi Rodriguez

21. Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man’s self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

- Francis Bacon

22. The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

- Publius Syrus

23. Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.

- Angus Wilson

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

- Antisthenes

25. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.

- Adam Smith

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

- Jean Vanier

27. When you criticize someone, see if you are doing it out of envy. Your criticism reveals more about yourself than you realize.

- Haemin Sunim

28. Class envy is dangerous.

- Jack Abramoff

29. Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both.

- Robert Burton

30. Frontrunners always attract envy, and a desperate campaign to stop them in their tracks.

- Kwasi Kwarteng

31. The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

- Baltasar Gracián

32. Take heed you harbor not that vice called Envy, lest another’s happiness be your torment, and God’s blessing become your curse.

- Wellins Calcott

33. Communism possesses a language which every people can understand – its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

- Heinrich Heine

34. If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

- Cesare Pavese

35. Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

36. Envy motivates a lot of people.

- Shia LaBeouf

37. Maybe jealousy and envy would fade if we knew the full story behind success. Maybe we would be less likely to put people on a pedestal.

- James Clear

38. Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

- Abraham Cahan

39. Carrying envy makes life more difficult.

- Kym Whitley

40. Envy is pain at the good fortune of others.

- Aristotle

41. Envy is never general, but always very particular – at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.

- Joseph Epstein

42. Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

- Mark Twain

43. The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.

- Alain de Botton

44. Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

- Ovid

45. There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.

- Agnes Repplier

46. I avoid envy at all costs.

- Claudia Winkleman

47. Envy is the coward side of Hate, and all her ways are bleak and desolate.

- Henry Abbey

48. Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.

- Criss Jami

49. The truth is that we should live with less envy and more cordiality and empathy.

- Leonardo Bonucci

50. Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

- John Berger

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

- Tacitus

52. The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.

- Denis Waitley

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

- Arthur Chapman

54. The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

- Baltasar Gracian

55. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.

- Susan Cain

56. Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

- Josh Billings

57. We experience envy when the quality we feel inferior about threatens our self-concept.

- Shane Parrish

58. The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

- Victor Hugo

59. Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.

- Mark Twain

60. Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

- Bainbridge Colby

61. Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

- William Shakespeare

62. When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity… you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others.

- Robert Greene

63. Don’t envy the harvest of the rich. Envy their planting.

- Bo Sanchez

64. Nothing sharpens sight like envy.

- Thomas Fuller

65. I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

- Christopher Hitchens

66. The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

67. Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

- Horace

68. Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

- John Gay

69. We are always trying to become something else. We are always trying to become noble, to become a hero, an example, an ideal; and if we really go behind this urge to become, we will find that there is envy and that behind that envy there is fear, the fear of what one is.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

70. Envy’s a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

- Philip James Bailey

71. Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

- Socrates

73. Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

- Gretchen Rubin

74. Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.

- Harold Coffin

75. This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.

- Abraham Cowley

76. Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

- Henry Fielding

77. The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.

- Filippo Brunelleschi

78. I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy – I don’t disparage envy, but I don’t accept it as legitimately my master.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

79. The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

- Jim Rohn

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

- Bauvard

81. Our culture is based on envy.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

82. Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, ‘social justice.’

- Thomas Sowell

83. I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

- Louis MacNeice

84. The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

- Margaret Thatcher

85. Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

- William Arthur Ward

86. Pride, envy, avarice – these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

- Dante Alighieri

87. Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.

- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

88. A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.

- Proverbs 14:30, NIV

89. Envy is the central fact of American life.

- Gore Vidal

90. Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

- Teddy Roosevelt

91. Envy suggests inferiority.

- Wayne Gerard Trotman

92. There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

93. Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

94. Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

- Samuel Johnson

95. Envy aims very high.

- Ovid

96. It is better to be envied than pitied.

- Herodotus

97. Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.

- Spanish Proverb

98. Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space, feels itself excluded.

- William Hazlitt

99. Envy creates silent enemies.

- Robert Greene

100. If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.

- Debbie Macomber

101. I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.

- Richard Steele

102. I never envy the guys who get attention for partying too much or behaving badly.

- Thomas Gibson

103. Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.

- Joseph Hall

104. Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

- Honoré de Balzac

105. Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

106. For most of us, envy is the basis of our actions; remove envy and we feel we are lost. All our effort is towards success, and in that there is envy; behind that envy there is fear.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

107. When you make your mark in the world, watch out for the envious with erasers.

- Evan Esar

108. Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

- Jonathan Sacks

109. Capitalism is the system that has enabled greatness and made America the envy of the world.

- Trish Regan

110. There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

- Erich Fromm

111. Now think of the things which goad man into destroying man: they are hope, envy, hatred, fear and contempt.

- Marcus Aurelius

112. The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

- William Hazlitt

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

- Antisthenes

114. Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

- Malcolm X

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

- Baltasar Gracian

116. Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

- William Hazlitt

117. Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbor to have them through envy.

- Aristotle

118. We are and always will be the party of prosperity, not envy.

- Andrew Scheer

119. Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy.

- Oliver Stone