Top 68 Quotes About Envy Or Jealousy
#1. 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
#2. If only you could see the greatness in yourself, you wouldn't envy the greatness in others.
Suzy Kassem
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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.
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Envy is when you want what someone else has. Jealousy's when you also don't want them to have it.
Kirsten Hubbard
#10. Their doubt is your fuel for dreams. You just have to drive.
Criss Jami
#13. 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
#14. Jealousy is a bitch nigga trait never truss a man who always ask what u make
Blanco Vandam
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success
Matthieu Ricard
#19. I am touched by her life, how it moves forward, pulses and springs. There is no fragmentation, nothing stunted or wedged. I circle back, I regress, the past doesn't let go. It might as well be a malfunction, a scene repeating itself, a scratched vinl record, a stutter.
Leila Aboulela
#20. Too many are trying to conquer higher weaknesses such as procrastination, impatience or pride while still being slaves to their appetites. If we can't control the body and its appetites, how can we control our tongues, or overcome the emotions or anger, envy, jealousy, or hatred?
Stephen Covey
#21. Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
Iris Murdoch
#22. Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.
David O. McKay
#23. Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.
Anthony Liccione
#24. There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or think wehave a right to. But envy is a raging madness that cannot bear the wealth or fortune of others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#25. Hate hates what it mirrors or envies.
T.F. Hodge
#26. 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
#27. Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
Honore De Balzac
#28. 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
#29. Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
William Shenstone
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. I'm emotionless, yet I breathe jealousy and envy
People kill for me or die to defend me
Kirk Jones
#35. 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
#36. I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame
John Adams
#39. 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
#40. Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.
Willard Gaylin
#41. 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
#42. It is, after all, envy rather than jealousy that causes most of the trouble in married life.
Anthony Powell
#43. What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?"
"Everything, since he has a command and I have not.
Patrick O'Brian
#44. No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.
Tupac Shakur
#45. Learn to love your haters, they are a wonderful source of inspiration.
Habeeb Akande
#46. When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.
Rachel Field
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.
Emily Post
#50. Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can ... . The art world is high school with money.
Jerry Saltz
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.
Ovid
#59. 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
#60. Millions upon millions will attain your ceremony, but don't think all of them are in a ceremonius mood.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#61. 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
#62. Try to resist copying a blueprint from another person's ministry.
Beth Moore
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.
Eckhart Tolle
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
