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

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

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Elbert Hubbard

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Thomas Hobbes

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.
Jerry Costello

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

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

There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.
Jim Jeffords

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

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

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
Sallust

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

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Charles Churchill

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
Emile M. Cioran

To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.
Gustav Stresemann

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.
Karl A. Menninger

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.
Julius Erving

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