65 Jealousy quotes that'll help avoid such negative emotion. Here are the best jealousy quotes to read from famous people that will tell you more about jealousy. They say being jealous is normal to human beings, but it is a problematic emotion that you need to flush out of your system. You will gain nothing good in jealousy, and it is the very cause of fights between individuals or groups in which most of the time end up in crimes. May these envy jealousy quotes help you realize that you can always sort things out through proper communication or focus on self-improvement instead. Don't let your jealousy ruined your life, and believe me, in the end, you'll regret it. Share these quotes about jealousy and envy with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.
1. Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer. - B. C. Forbes
2. Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. - Paul Eldridge
3. Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears. - Osho
4. Jealousy only eats up your beauty, have more faith in yourself, you got something that other people don't. - Anonymous
5. Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind. - Lou Reed
6. Most haters are stuck in a poisonous mental prison of jealousy and self-doubt that blinds them to their own potentiality. - Steve Maraboli
7. Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. - George Eliot
8. Jealousy hyphenates love in all the wrong places. - Terri Guillemets
9. Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness. - François de La Rochefoucauld
10. Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening. - Maya Angelou
11. Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time. - Arab Proverb
12. To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self. - Joan Didion
13. They said that being jealous is an act of how much you love the person, I said that if you love and you care for that person you should also learn how to trust. - Anonymous
14. The jealousy that arises from another’s achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one’s own and other’s achievement. - Dalai Lama
15. The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. - Johann Kaspar Lavater
16. The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. - William Penn
17. More men die of jealousy than of cancer. - Anonymous
18. Fame is the penalty of success. Jealousy is the penalty of fame. - Sivananda
19. A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. - Robert A. Heinlein
20. Jealousy is a strong emotion that can break any strong relationship. - Anonymous
21. In jealousy, there is more of self-love than love. - François de La Rochefoucauld
22. Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. - William Shenstone
23. Jealousy is not limited to romantic relationships. It also exists between siblings, co-workers, and even friends. - Shane Parrish
24. What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you. - Peter Deunov
25. Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition, the immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. - Robert A. Heinlein
26. Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw. - Gosho Aoyama
27. Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. - Havelock Ellis
28. Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem. - Aaron Carter
29. Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one. - Emma Goldman
30. Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love. - Caitlin Thomas
31. Don’t torment yourself with jealousy. It’s a silly illusion that someone’s life is better than yours when the truth is that each one of us is on a different path. - Demi Lovato
32. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what they have been through. - Sam Cawthorn
33. It’s such a poisonous emotion because, at the end of the day, you’re no better off, you’re unhappier, and the person you’re jealous of is still successful or good-looking or whatever they are. - Naval Ravikant
34. Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths. - Miguel de Cervantes
35. Jealousy can open the blood, it can make black roses. - Sylvia Plath
36. Jealousy implies dissatisfaction with what you are. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
37. Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you. - Anna Deavere Smith
38. Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs. - H. L. Mencken
39. Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties. - Gene Tierney
40. Jealousy works against you. It takes control away from you, hands it over to the opposition. Maintain control. - Ellen Hopkins
41. Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it. - Ibn Taymiyyah
42. Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense. - Honoré de Balzac
43. Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. - Sophia Loren
44. Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine. - Emma Goldman
45. Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life. - Yoko Ono
46. When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes it's envy and jealousy. - Robert Kraft
47. Jealousy is information. It tells you what you desire, what you admire, what you despise in yourself. You could learn from the person you envy if you weren’t blinded by resentment. Learning feels better than loathing. - The Stoic Emperor
48. Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself. - Friedrich Nietzsche
49. Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. - Patrick Henry
50. Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire. - Susan Cain
51. I keep my head held high and smile, because there are people who will kill to see me fall. - Anonymous
52. Never hate people who are jealous of you, but respect their jealousy because they’re the ones who think you’re better than them. - Anonymous
53. The venom clamors of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog’s tooth. - William Shakespeare
54. Don’t waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. - Mary Schmich
55. It’s sad how some people are so jealous and intimidated by you that they only have negative things to say when they know absolutely nothing about you. - Anonymous
56. Jealousy is an ugly emotion that makes people do some seriously whacked shit and when a woman is experiencing it, it’s worse. - Kristen Ashley
57. People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy. - Kristin Bauer van Straten
58. Chances are that when someone is hating on you, it’s not about you at all. It’s about them. It’s their fear, their jealously, their boredom, and their insecurity. - Anonymous
59. I don’t ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can’t do it myself, I don’t deserve to get it. - Clyde Tombaugh
60. Jealousy releases anger, and anger is the greatest and the ultimate enemy that can forever determine your judgment and ultimately withhold your destiny. - Anonymous
61. Whoever is trying to bring you down is already below you. - Anonymous
62. Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt. - Terri Guillemets
63. As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy. - Antisthenes
64. People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you. - Anonymous
65. The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires. - Dorothy Corkille Briggs
1. Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer. - B. C. Forbes
2. Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. - Paul Eldridge
3. Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears. - Osho
4. Jealousy only eats up your beauty, have more faith in yourself, you got something that other people don't. - Anonymous
5. Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind. - Lou Reed
6. Most haters are stuck in a poisonous mental prison of jealousy and self-doubt that blinds them to their own potentiality. - Steve Maraboli
7. Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. - George Eliot
8. Jealousy hyphenates love in all the wrong places. - Terri Guillemets
9. Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness. - François de La Rochefoucauld
10. Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening. - Maya Angelou
11. Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time. - Arab Proverb
12. To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self. - Joan Didion
13. They said that being jealous is an act of how much you love the person, I said that if you love and you care for that person you should also learn how to trust. - Anonymous
14. The jealousy that arises from another’s achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one’s own and other’s achievement. - Dalai Lama
15. The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. - Johann Kaspar Lavater
16. The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. - William Penn
17. More men die of jealousy than of cancer. - Anonymous
18. Fame is the penalty of success. Jealousy is the penalty of fame. - Sivananda
19. A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. - Robert A. Heinlein
20. Jealousy is a strong emotion that can break any strong relationship. - Anonymous
21. In jealousy, there is more of self-love than love. - François de La Rochefoucauld
22. Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. - William Shenstone
23. Jealousy is not limited to romantic relationships. It also exists between siblings, co-workers, and even friends. - Shane Parrish
24. What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you. - Peter Deunov
25. Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition, the immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. - Robert A. Heinlein
26. Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw. - Gosho Aoyama
27. Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. - Havelock Ellis
28. Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem. - Aaron Carter
29. Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one. - Emma Goldman
30. Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love. - Caitlin Thomas
31. Don’t torment yourself with jealousy. It’s a silly illusion that someone’s life is better than yours when the truth is that each one of us is on a different path. - Demi Lovato
32. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what they have been through. - Sam Cawthorn
33. It’s such a poisonous emotion because, at the end of the day, you’re no better off, you’re unhappier, and the person you’re jealous of is still successful or good-looking or whatever they are. - Naval Ravikant
34. Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths. - Miguel de Cervantes
35. Jealousy can open the blood, it can make black roses. - Sylvia Plath
36. Jealousy implies dissatisfaction with what you are. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
37. Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you. - Anna Deavere Smith
38. Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs. - H. L. Mencken
39. Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties. - Gene Tierney
40. Jealousy works against you. It takes control away from you, hands it over to the opposition. Maintain control. - Ellen Hopkins
41. Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it. - Ibn Taymiyyah
42. Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense. - Honoré de Balzac
43. Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. - Sophia Loren
44. Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine. - Emma Goldman
45. Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life. - Yoko Ono
46. When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes it's envy and jealousy. - Robert Kraft
47. Jealousy is information. It tells you what you desire, what you admire, what you despise in yourself. You could learn from the person you envy if you weren’t blinded by resentment. Learning feels better than loathing. - The Stoic Emperor
48. Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself. - Friedrich Nietzsche
49. Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. - Patrick Henry
50. Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire. - Susan Cain
51. I keep my head held high and smile, because there are people who will kill to see me fall. - Anonymous
52. Never hate people who are jealous of you, but respect their jealousy because they’re the ones who think you’re better than them. - Anonymous
53. The venom clamors of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog’s tooth. - William Shakespeare
54. Don’t waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. - Mary Schmich
55. It’s sad how some people are so jealous and intimidated by you that they only have negative things to say when they know absolutely nothing about you. - Anonymous
56. Jealousy is an ugly emotion that makes people do some seriously whacked shit and when a woman is experiencing it, it’s worse. - Kristen Ashley
57. People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy. - Kristin Bauer van Straten
58. Chances are that when someone is hating on you, it’s not about you at all. It’s about them. It’s their fear, their jealously, their boredom, and their insecurity. - Anonymous
59. I don’t ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can’t do it myself, I don’t deserve to get it. - Clyde Tombaugh
60. Jealousy releases anger, and anger is the greatest and the ultimate enemy that can forever determine your judgment and ultimately withhold your destiny. - Anonymous
61. Whoever is trying to bring you down is already below you. - Anonymous
62. Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt. - Terri Guillemets
63. As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy. - Antisthenes
64. People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you. - Anonymous
65. The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires. - Dorothy Corkille Briggs
65 Jealousy quotes that'll help avoid such negative emotion
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