Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shenstone

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

William James

Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.

Richard Le Gallienne

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

William Graham Sumner

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.

Joseph Addison

The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

John Adams

I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame

Friedrich Schiller

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

Luc de Clapiers

Jealousy is the paralysis of love.

Jason Gardener

It has always been my ambition to win a major outdoor title and that will be the plan at the Commonwealths.

Richard Rorty

My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.

Werner Herzog

Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.

Wangari Maathai

There will always be people who think that you have ambitions.

Wangari Maathai

When I went back home, I was constantly being reminded, I'm an African woman, and so there are certain things I shouldn't do, certain ambitions that I should not entertain. That was a problem for me because I had never thought of myself as an African woman, never thought of myself as a woman to begin with. For me the limit was my capacity, my capability.

W. H. Auden

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

William Congreve

Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.

Tory Burch

Women have to embrace ambition if they want to. I had a lot of trouble taking compliments in the beginning, and it's really important for women to embrace their title.

Tory Burch

There’s always a stigma attached to the word ‘ambition’ and women. I’ve embraced it. Ambition is NOT a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.

Samuel Johnson

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Jonathan Swift

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

Mark Twain

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

Paulo Coelho

The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.

Plutarch

Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.

Monica Bellucci

Envy is human nature.

John Gay

Envy's a sharper spur than pay.

John Gay

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

John Gay

Envy is a kind of praise.