Competition Jealousy Quotes

#1. I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

Marilyn Manson

#2. Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - It is not fair. - He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. - I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it - but fear I must.

Jane Austen

#3. Jealousy is love in competition.

Toba Beta

#4. My parents are very competitive, so we are very competitive as kids. But it's a good kind of competition; it's not a jealousy. You always want to do your best, and if it can't be you, you want it to be your brother or your sister, you know what I mean?

Janet Jackson

#5. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are.

Bob Marley

#6. There are lots of obstacles to peace... Before, people used to live in simple lifestyles. Simple food, simple clothes. Now it's more jealousy, more competition. Wealthy countries and children suffer because there is no meaning.

Sushma Joshi

#7. Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they're jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.

Shannon L. Alder

#8. I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition.

Shannon L. Alder

#9. I was never weighed down by beauty in my lifetime. However, I was beaten down by the sad fears of my gender- women who didn't allow you to feel pretty or rejoice in who you are, unless it fell beneath how they thought about themselves.

Shannon L. Alder

#10. If you just can't get rid of envy, then start creating a life, so that if you saw yourself from afar, you'd be envious of you.

Charles F. Glassman

#11. Beware of those who steer you away from your heart's true happiness. It would make them happy to see you steer yourself right next to them, sitting with both your hearts bitter.

Suzy Kassem

#12. Like families, competitors can bring out the worst as well as the best in each other. Like romance, competition has many faces, some of them ugly. In addition to showing me my grace and graciousness, the mirror of sports has reflected back to me my jealousy, pettiness, and arrogance.

Mariah Nelson

#13. I definitely don't feel a sense of jealousy or competition, and that's a really good feeling.

Ariel Pink

#14. Instead of playing to win, I was playing not to lose. It reminds me of the story I once heard about two friends being chased by a bear, when one turned to the other and said, I just realized that I don't need to outrun the bear; I only need to outrun you.

Sean Covey

#15. Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with a real sense of being mutually indispensable, with sudden peaks of solidarity in spite of envy, jealousy and the whole inevitable cohort of bad feelings.

Elena Ferrante