These motivational jealousy quotes will uplift your thinking and will give you peace of mind. When you envy someone you give them superiority and dishonor your strengths. Everyone is different so are you. Feel proud and smile back. Healthy competition is always good but when it becomes jealousy it harms you and consumes your energy.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging jealousy quotes, jealousy sayings, and jealousy proverbs.
Famous Jealousy Quotes
- “Envy…since it’s lodgement is in the heart, not the brain, no degree of intellect supplies a guarantee against it.” – Herman Melville
- “The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.” – William Penn
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“You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.” – Margaret Atwood
- “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
- “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 – in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.” – Robert A. Heinlein
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“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.” – Fulton J. Sheen
- “To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.” – Joan Didion
- “Jealousy is one of the wickedest of all the passions. It is that which has been the most fruitful mother of tragedies, murders, and wars. But reprehensible though it is, jealousy is almost rather to be pitied than blamed–its first victims are those who harbor the feeling.” – Arthur Lynch
- “Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.” – George Eliot
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“What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you.” – Peter Deunov
- “Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.” – Joseph Addison
- “I’ve spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops blurred my vision and burned holes in my heart. Once I learned to use the umbrella of confidence, the skies cleared up for me and the sunshine called joy became my faithful companion.” – Astrid Alauda
- “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
- “Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.” – Paul Eldridge
- “Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.” – Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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“More men die of jealousy than of cancer.” – Joseph P. Kennedy
- “A man will do many things to get himself loved. He will do all things to get himself envied.” – Mark Twain
- “A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.” – Robert A. Heinlein
- “The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.” – Johann Kaspar Lavater
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“Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.” – John Dryden
- “Comparison is a very foolish attitude because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears.” – Osho
- “Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Love may be blind but jealousy has 20-20 vision.” – Anonymous
- “Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”- François de la Rochefoucauld
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“Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.” – Spanish Proverb
- “The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.”- Baltasar Gracián
- “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
- “Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”- Buddha
- “Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself.”- Danish Proverb
- “Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self-worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has.”- Anonymous
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“Envy shoots at others and wounds itself.”- English Proverb
- “The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.”- Socrates
- “Jealousy—Tormenting yourself, for fear you should be tormented by another.”- Paul Chatfield
- “In jealousy, there is more self-love than love.”- François de la Rochefoucauld
- “Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point – that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you. There is only one alternative – self-value. If you cannot love yourself, you will not believe that you are loved. You will always think it’s a mistake or luck.”- Jennifer James
- “Jealousy and love are sisters.”- Russian Proverb
- “It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.”- Lawrence Durrell
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“Envy is a waste of time.”- Anonymous
- “Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.”- Josh Billings
- “Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.”- Elizabeth Bowen
- “Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.” – R. Orage
- “Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt.” – Terri Guillemets
- “The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.” – Dorothy Dix
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“Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.” – Samuel Johnson
- “It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.” – Aeschylus, Jealousy quotes for friends
- “Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self-worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has.” – Elizabeth O’Connor
- “A show of envy is an insult to oneself.” – Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko
- “Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.” – Paul Eldridge
- “Jealousy is a crutch.” – Terri Guillemets
- “Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.” – William Shenstone
Jealousy is a state where you harm yourself than anybody else.
