Top 100 Jealousy Envy Quotes
#1. My brother, do men grieve over the fight of cats and dogs? So the jealousy, envy, and elbowing of common men should make no impression on your mind.
Swami Vivekananda
#2. No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.
Tupac Shakur
#3. Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground.
Jimi Hendrix
#4. If you can be free from pride, self-pity, self-centeredness, selfishness, jealousy, envy, intolerance, impatience, greed, gluttony, lust, sloth, arrogance, and dishonesty, then there is a state of serenity and connectedness within.
Russell Brand
#5. Kindness, love, patience, understanding, and unity will increase as we serve, while intolerance, jealousy, envy, greed, and selfishness decrease or disappear. The more we give of ourselves, the more our capacity to serve, understand, and love will grow.
CARLOS H. AMADO
#6. I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
Elbert Hubbard
#7. The greatest enemies of us alcoholics are resentment, jealousy, envy, frustration, and fear.
Alcoholics Anonymous
#8. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.
Anais Nin
#9. The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#10. People who hate you because of a mere jealousy over your success hurt themselves in disguise. This is because you carry an image of who they wish they had become. Don't hate them back because they may also become like you one day and it will mean hurting that image you carry!
Israelmore Ayivor
#11. Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#12. Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.
Emily Post
#13. I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself.
Napoleon Hill
#14. 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
#15. When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.
Rachel Field
#16. Learn to love your haters, they are a wonderful source of inspiration.
Habeeb Akande
#17. We need to get rid of hate, envy, jealousy, discord in ourselves, so we can reach a solution in terms of peace in order to feel that time has come for human happiness.
Chico Xavier
#18. What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?"
"Everything, since he has a command and I have not.
Patrick O'Brian
#19. It is, after all, envy rather than jealousy that causes most of the trouble in married life.
Anthony Powell
#20. A hopeful life is a successful life. People who bury their hopes and crave for someone's success never know that their diamond is hidden as they envy other's silver!
Israelmore Ayivor
#21. Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.
Willard Gaylin
#22. Jealousy is an uncontrollable emotion. It attacks all of us. As long as you don't let it get the best of you, I'm sure you and your envy can live in harmony without anyone getting hurt. So, see? There's no need to feel bad about it. It makes you normal. Human.
Linda Kage
#25. I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame
John Adams
#26. Finally, pay attention to what you envy. Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire. I
Susan Cain
#27. It's silly to think the left eye would envy the right or that one foot would be jealous of the other, and yet so often it is the case.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#28. Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.
Eckhart Tolle
#29. Few people are logical. Most of us are prejudiced and biased. Most of us are blighted with preconceived notions, with jealousy, suspicion, fear, envy and pride.
Dale Carnegie
#30. Try to resist copying a blueprint from another person's ministry.
Beth Moore
#31. We ask ourselves and each of us may wonder: Does the Lord feel truly at home in my life? Do we allow him to do a 'cleansing' in our hearts and to drive out the idols, those attitudes of greed, jealousy, worldliness, envy and hatred, that habit of gossiping and tearing down others?
Pope Francis
#32. Millions upon millions will attain your ceremony, but don't think all of them are in a ceremonius mood.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#33. Remove,' I said to myself, 'the impetus to private ownership, and you have made the first giant step toward removing the causes of injustice in the world. There would be no greed if there were no possessions, no jealousy, no envy, perhaps even no hatred.
Don Carpenter
#34. Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.
Ovid
#35. Merry hearts are vulnerable to death, don't be over-joyed to the state of oblivion, lest the enemy poison your meal.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#36. Don't waste your time being envious of what you don't have or who you want to be. Instead, focus on what you do have and who you can become.
April Mae Monterrosa
#37. It's okay to glance at the light of another. But when you look to long, it will blind you from seeing your own.
Charles F. Glassman
#38. Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can ... . The art world is high school with money.
Jerry Saltz
#39. These golden matters Of Gyges and his treasuries Are no concern of mine. Jealousy has no power over me, Nor do I envy a god his work, And I do not burn to rule. Such things have no Fascination for my eyes.
Archilochus
#40. Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
Honore De Balzac
#41. Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself, but, when the speaker rises above him, jealousy is aroused and he begins to be incredulous.
Thucydides
#42. People you've known, seemingly forever, may claim to have love for you, but when gossip's tainted tongue whips you - they don't show enough love to weigh your history against false witness. Be that as it may, press forward as the dust settles. Your purpose is much bigger than their paltriness.
T.F. Hodge
#43. He had been dazzled. Because of the dazzling brightness, he had had to kill [Seigen]. All who had encountered Seigen had had their hearts stolen by that brightness. That envy had turned to malice.
Takayuki Yamaguchi
#44. Jealousy is a bitch nigga trait never truss a man who always ask what u make
Blanco Vandam
#45. When you understand who you are by knowing what God created you to do, you have no room for becoming jealous over what someone else is doing.
Israelmore Ayivor
#48. Because thankfulness is the tonic that always cures the cancers of greed, envy and jealously, it should be taken in liberal doses daily.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#49. Envy is when you want what someone else has. Jealousy's when you also don't want them to have it.
Kirsten Hubbard
#50. I'm not equipped to handle what she has, both good and bad and what she has is always a package deal of both. In other words, I've been assigned a load I can handle.
Lysa TerKeurst
#51. Envy, jealousy, revenge and negativity are some of the basic instinct of women. They cannot help it. We prefer negative thoughts at first place due to the feeling of insecurity.
Himmilicious
#52. Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbor to have them through envy.
Aristotle.
#53. Jealousy and envy are cheap suits made of flashy colors," I said. "No one wears them well, and everyone sees you when you are coming.
J.A. Redmerski
#54. You too will seek your fortune, and you must be keen in obtaining it. If here you have learned to dodge a musket ball, there you must learn to elude envy, jealousy, greed, using those same weapons to combat your adversaries, namely, everyone.
Umberto Eco
#55. I admired him more than anyone but I didn't wish him well. It was that I preferred him to me and wanted to be him. I coveted his talents, face, style. I wanted to wake up with them all transferred to me.
Hanif Kureishi
#56. If only you could see the greatness in yourself, you wouldn't envy the greatness in others.
Suzy Kassem
#57. Their doubt is your fuel for dreams. You just have to drive.
Criss Jami
#59. I'm emotionless, yet I breathe jealousy and envy
People kill for me or die to defend me
Kirk Jones
#60. Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.
John Fowles
#61. Stay close 2 those who r by ur side in happy times, because they do not harbor jealousy or envy in their hearts, only joy 2 c u happy ...
Paulo Coelho
#62. INSECURITY breeds JEALOUSY / JEALOUSY creates ENVY / ENVY causes self-destruction / a hater is made up of all three. Just remember you are an opportunity away from being hated on yourself!
Carlos Wallace
#63. Insecure people put others down to raise themselves up.
Habeeb Akande
#64. 1. Jealousy is a destructive emotion, particularly for those who harbor it; and 2. Envy is a natural feeling that can be positive if it's used for motivation.
David Mezzapelle
#67. Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
William Shenstone
#68. Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
Oliver Stone
#69. There will always be haters. And the more you grow the more they hate; the more they hate the more you grow.
Anthony Liccione
#70. How much better life would be if we began the day with a poem rather than the empty prattle of newspapers, with their diet of fear, hate, envy and jealousy.
Tom Hodgkinson
#71. He beat me when you not here, I say.
Who do, she say, Albert?
Mr , I say.
I can't believe it, she say. She sit down on the bench next to me real hard, like she drop.
What he beat you for? she ast.
For being me and not you.
Alice Walker
#72. A calm and undisturbed mind and heart are the life and health of the body, but envy, jealousy, and wrath are like rottenness of the bones. Proverbs 14:30
Joyce Meyer
#73. Don't ever feel sad about who you are. Don't wish to be a daughter or son to a wealthy home, just because you think you're poor. Look! Everybody's poor, i discovered it when i realized that its not everything that President Barrack Obama has.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#74. Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them.
Suzy Kassem
#75. Drop jealousy and envy, for they make you ugly. Be loving, be accepting, and most of all ... be happy just the way you are.
Leon Brown
#76. People may show jealousy, but hide their envy.
Mason Cooley
#77. Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success
Matthieu Ricard
#78. Frustration, despair, angst, anxiety, hurt, grief, unhappiness, envy, jealousy, and all the other painful emotions are catalysts of change in our lives. They motivate us to do things differently, to change our status quo.
Kate Levinson
#79. Philosophers see no harm in the Jesuits other than in their effect on humanity and the sciences. The vulgar and especially the prejudiced only hate them from an envy and jealousy born out of conspiracy and intrigue at an organisation which overshadows them.
Cesare Beccaria
#80. Beware of those who are bitter, for they will never allow you to enjoy your fruit.
Suzy Kassem
#81. When you make it a strong habit not to take anything personally, you avoid many upsets in your life. Your anger, jealousy, and envy will disappear, and even your sadness will simply disappear if you don't take things personally.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#82. Reassuring a jealous woman that you don't want her man creates the bigger beast of resentment because that tells her that what she has isn't desirable and to her, where the opinions of others correlates to her self-worth, is unforgivable.
Donna Lynn Hope
#84. Each person you admire is simply a reminder of your own latent excellence, your own unacknowledged beauty.
Vironika Tugaleva
#85. Those who envy the success of others are normally ignorant to the sacrifices, failures, and dedication that it took for them to get there.
Noel DeJesus
#86. Most feminist groups began with women talking about how we saw ourselves and other women, how we acted. We openly confessed our fears and hatred of other women. We talked about how to combat jealousy, the politics of envy, and so on.
Bell Hooks
#87. Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#88. Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.
William Hazlitt
#89. While some of us burned on the edges of life, insatiable and straining to see more deeply in, he sat complacently at the centre and let life come to him - so much of it, evidently, that he could not keep track of his appointments.
John Updike
#90. Jealousy we understood and thought natural ... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us.
Toni Morrison
#91. People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration.
Emily Eden
#92. Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.
Honore De Balzac
#93. Envy is resentment of good things that happen to other people. Jealousy increases the importance of the person we wish belonged only to us. Envy, as I told you, is poison, and futile - we want to be the other person. But jealousy is generous - we want the other person to be ours.
Carlos Fuentes
#94. Is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?
Erica Jong
#95. Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#96. The enemy stays in the hearts of friends. Watch what your friends know about you and watch what you tell your friends, remember, egoism breeds jealousy and ends a relationship in discord.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#97. They'd seen her laugh before he did, had seen her live before he had. The thought of it provoked envy inside of Wharick, and that emotion at times, could be just as powerful as jealousy.
-Madison Thorne Grey, Sustenance
Madison Thorne Grey
#98. The underbelly of envy and jealousy is an unconscious holding back of yourself.
Deborah Sandella
#99. There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil: it is anger, envy, greed, arrogance, jealousy, resentment, lies. The other is good: it is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy, truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed. - Cherokee proverb Spanning
Angela Stevens
#100. Jealousy is the fire of envy that seeks to destroy another's beauty, rather than to create its own.
Wes Fesler
