Robert J. Ringer Quotes

And which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them, because they see and covet something that he has not given them. All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

When everyone covets something, they are easily annoyed by it.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

It is easy to despise what you cannot get

People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn't mean what you have isn't beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have - no one is ever 100 per cent like, 'Yes, I'm the bomb dot com - from head to toe!'

The Englishman is like the dog in the fable. The dog who cannot bear that another dog should have a few bones although the overfed brute is sitting with a bowl full to the brim.

Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present. Fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they had, they would not have been so focused on the one tree they didn't have.

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?

Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get; and what thou hast, forgettest.

Three or four years ago, I got really caught up in the movies people were making, the opportunities they were getting, and I was looking at them with bitterness.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

I suppose I was always very greedy. I was never happy with what we had, and I was always looking for new opportunities.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.