Where envy is unavoidable it must be used as a stimulus to one’s own efforts, not to the thwarting of the efforts of rivals.

Bertrand Russell
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had. - Jodi Picoult

  2. Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat. - Bill Watterson

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

  4. She was wearing her fuzzy pink hat and she was happy, which was so obnoxious. She'd become one of those people who waltzed through life without so much as a split end, and I was still one of those people who changed diapers for free... - Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

  5. Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight) - Peter S. Beagle

More Quotes By Bertrand Russell
  1. Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

  2. To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.

  3. Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

  4. Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean...

  5. Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

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