The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring. — Victor Hugo
Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate. — Epictetus
Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing. — Pythagoras
Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time. — Drake
Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. — Arthur Chapman
Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent. — Ovid
Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance. — Sasha Azevedo
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. — Havelock Ellis
Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be.
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Envious greed must govern to possess and ambition must possess to govern. — Egyptian Proverbs
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that. — Oliver Stone
Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee. — J.R. Ward
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. — George Eliot
Short Envy And Jealousy Quotes
To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish — Arthur Schopenhauer
You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself. — Margaret Atwood
The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor. — Socrates
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. — Elizabeth Bowen
We envy people whose traits compete with our desirability as a mate. — Gad Saad
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. — Erica Jong
Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice. — Ouida
Envy And Jealousy Image Quotes
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
Inspirational Quotes
Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho
Never speak from a place of hate, jealousy, anger or insecurity. Evaluate your words before you let them leave your lips. Sometimes it's best to be quiet.
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle
Jealous And Envy Quotes
When you feel jealousy, you shift all your attention and energy to whoever is making you jealous. — Tim Grover
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self. — Joan Didion
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. — William Shakespeare
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
Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego. — Eckhart Tolle
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. — William Shenstone
The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them. — Criss Jami
Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds. — Helen Rowland
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. — Samuel Johnson
Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears. — Osho
Jealousy Quotes
You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind. — T. D. Jakes
Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion. They are victims of their habits and emotions. But you can make your home a place of peace. — Paramahansa Yogananda
"Haters only hate things they can't have and the people they can't be. It's just a little thing called jealousy." — Lil Wayne
Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. — Bob Marley
No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed. — Tupac Shakur
Cultivate peace first in the garden of your heart by removing the weeds of lust, hatred, greed, selfishness, and jealousy. Then only you can manifest it externally. Then only, those who come in contact with you, will be benefited by your vibrations of peace and harmony. — Sivananda
Be who you want to be and not care about what others think. — Andy Biersack
Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what they have been through. — Sam Cawthorn
Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions — A. R. Rahman
Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses. — Nhat Hanh
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted. — Unknown
We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all. — Dorothy Day
The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead. — Nikita Khrushchev
Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate. — William Arthur Ward
The ignorant and the deluded are, I think, in a strange way to be envied. That which is not known of does not trouble us, while an imagined but insubstantial peril does not harm us. To know the truths behind reality is a far greater burden. — H. P. Lovecraft
Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven. — Ephrem the Syrian
I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds. — John Ruskin
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours. — Epictetus
Envy And Greed Quotes
The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each of these "sins" as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification. — Anton Szandor LaVey
People get a taste of success and lose their appetite. — 21 Savage
The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him. — Robert Ringer
The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle, labor-union struggle-are tearing our world to pieces. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict. — E. F. Schumacher
I don't believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity. — Boris Johnson
And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life — Ursula K. Le Guin
Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving. — Billy Graham
The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter. — Dave Mustaine
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
Envy And Success Quotes
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well. — Theodore Roosevelt
School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity. — Jules Henry
Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy. — Aeschylus
Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work. — Louise Bourgeois
When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others — Robert Greene
Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success — Matthieu Ricard
With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail. — Charles Churchill
There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune. — Marie Dressler
I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made. — Elia Kazan
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. — Alexander Pope
Love Jealousy Quotes
Don't you complicate your mind
Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. — Bob Marley
Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration. — Taylor Swift
I don't mind saying in advance that in my opinion jealousy is normal and healthy. Jealousy arises out of the fact that children love. If they have no capacity to love, then they don't show jealousy. — Donald Woods Winnicott
Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away — Solomon
Togetherness, passion, laughter, faith, trust, and jealousy are the essential ingredients of love — Shahrukh Khan
Don’t try to make someone hate the person he loves. For he will go on loving but he will hate you. — African Proverbs
Google only loves you when everyone else loves you first. — Brian Dean
Jealousy And Insecurity Quotes
Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others. — Helen Fisher
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. — Lazarus Long
Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights. — Shannon Alder
Insecurity is an ugly thing. It makes you hate people you don't even know. — Drake
Greed pulls people in, and fear pushes them out. — Naved Abdali
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. — Honore de Balzac
Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest. — Alfred Richard Orage
Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them. — Jennifer James
We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more than anything our vanity and our egotism. — Frederick Lenz
A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart — Leo Buscaglia
Am I jealous? he thought, astonished. Jealous of the chance object to which she has attached herself? Jealous of something that does not concern me? One can be jealous of a love that has turned away, but not of that to which it has turned. — Erich Maria Remarque
Nico's voice was like broken glass. "I- I wasn't in love with Annabeth." "You were jealous of her," Jason said. "That's why you didn't want to be around her. Especially why you don't want to be around... him. It makes total sense. — Rick Riordan
Love your haters - they're your biggest fans — Kanye West
Know that whoever is trying to bring you down, is already below you. — Boonaa Mohammed
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing. — Emma Goldman
What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you. — Peter Deunov
I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I. — Sylvia Plath
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
Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others – it only changes yours. — Shannon Alder
I’m a coward. I succumbed to jealousy and now it eats my heart. — Antonio Vivaldi
know the feelin, when you feelin like a villain,
You be havin good thoughts but the evils be revealin'.
And the stresses of life can take you off the right path,
Jealousy and envy tends to infiltrate your staff...
We gotta hold it down so we can move on past
All adversities, so we can get through fast. — Q-Tip
Three great obstacles to progress: guilt, envy, and resentment. — Dan Sullivan
Disgust is often more deeply buried than envy and anger, but it compounds and intensifies the other negative emotions. — Martha C. Nussbaum
Although humans inherit a biological bias that permits them to feel anger, jealousy, selfishness and envy, and to be rude, aggressive or violent, they inherit an even stronger biological bias for kindness, compassion, cooperation, love and nurture - especially toward those in need. This inbuilt ethical sense is a biological feature of our species. — Jerome Kagan
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 neighbour to have them through envy. — Aristotle
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. — Glenn Clark
Some men just want to watch the world burn — Michael Caine
The soul of the world is nourished by people's Happiness. — Paulo Coelho
Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of control. It believes it is real and tries hard to maintain its supremacy. Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego. — Eckhart Tolle
Envy and jealousy are very harmful because you are never ever satisfied with what you have and you never reflect on what you have. You constantly live your life on what you do not have. — Tsem Tulku
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. — Baruch Spinoza
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
American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy, jealousy, all that is malignant in human character is nourished by the system. Possession, money, property--on such corrupt standards as these do you people measure happiness and success. — Philip Roth
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
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
Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate. — Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
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
Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ. — William Shakespeare
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
Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge. — Iris Murdoch
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. — Buddha
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