Envied Quotes

Envied Quote of the day

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

Skateboarders are envied by people because they just glide so free. Any time something moves like water, they’ll make a dam. Every time something moves in nature, they want to stop it.

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

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, / I cannot, shall not, be forgot.

I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.

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

I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.

After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.

The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.

It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.

Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.

To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.

Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

I think we need to find out why the citizens of the world's wealthiest, most envied, most powerful country are so cynical, so distressed, so angry, so ticked of about so many things.

I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.

What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!

Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.

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

The people "have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge- I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers."

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.

We were so poor we envied everyone we ever heard of.

The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they have, which is always better than some others.]

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

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.

I'm loved by some, hated by many, envied by most, yet wanted by all. (Josiah)

Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy.

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.

If you are not envied, you are not enviable.

The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

The movies television and music we used to produce created an image of America that the world envied... now the millions around the world call us the Great Satan - and with good cause.

Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned.

He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their life is done.

Envy is more irreconcilable than hate. It is the most corroding of all political vices and also a great power in our land. The friends of freedom are content to be envied, but envy not.

I'd always envied actors who got to play real people or got to do research. I've always just had these scripts where, I mean not in a bad way, but it was right on the page.

The average American worker enjoys amenities for which Croesus, Crassus, the Medici, and Louis XIV would have envied him.

She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.

I had friends who ran off to become ski instructors or worked in cool bars, and I often envied them, but I know I'd quickly become bored with that kind of life. I always need to push myself.

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.