Desmond Tutu Quotes

The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.

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

One of the great flaws that we all share is that we think everyone else is cooler, everyone else is sexier; everyone else has all the answers. That was me too.

We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun, but a dead little rock floating in space next to their gold and their blaze.

You always envy someone else's life and, as a woman, you're always comparing your life to someone else's life.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

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

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

Jealousy is a human emotion, regardless of whether you're a Branch Davidian or you're whomever, outside in society.

I don't like being jealous.

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.

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

Envy is the religion of the mediocre

Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.

We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes

You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?

Comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. Once you compare yourself to someone else, what you're really saying is that what you're made of isn't good enough.

There are times in my life when I let myself get consumed with jealously for someone else's life, their body, their wardrobe, their talent. They call it the green-eyed monster for a reason. It's a self destructive and when it's in the room, it consumes you. Be strong and don't focus on what other people have.

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.

Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.