The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. — Salvador Dali
We envy people whose traits compete with our desirability as a mate. — Gad Saad
Greed is but a word jealous men inflict upon the ambitious. — Marcus Licinius Crassus
The envious never give praise, they only take it in. — Mexican Proverbs
The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself — Helmut Schoeck
Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should. — Sting
When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad. — Tacitus
Jealous People Image Quotes
Jealousy is a good indication that you are doing things the right way. People never get jealous of losers.
What Is Jealousy Quotes
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
I believe I understand anti-Semitism which is a very complex movement. I see it as a Jew, but without hatred or fear. I recognize what is anti-Semitism is rude jesting, vulgar jealousy of métier, hereditary prejudice; but also what can be considered as in fact legitimate defence. — Theodor Herzl
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self. — Joan Didion
When you build in silence, people don't know what to attack.
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere. — Van Wyck Brooks
What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you. — Peter Deunov
Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen. — Epictetus
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
A thug is what I want and a thug is what I need. And my friends don't understand, and I think it's jealousy. — 50 Cent
Here's what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal. — Douglas Coupland
When They Jealous Quotes
I gotta be honest with you. Im kind of jealous of the way my dad gets to talk to my mom sometimes. Where are all those old-school women you can just take your day out on? When did they stop making those angels? — Bill Burr
When people don't want the best for you, they are not the best for you. — Gayle King
Investors are a lot like jealous exes – they want you a lot more when someone else is interested. — Cliff Lerner
No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents. — Wendell Phillips
People destroy beauty when they find it. (Acheron) How so? (Artemis) By nature, people are petty and jealous. They envy what they lack and because they don’t know how to acquire something, they try to destroy anyone who has it. Beauty is one of those things they hate most in others. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Unsuccessful people get jealous when they watch the Mastery of others. Successful people get inspired. — Robin Sharma
Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw. — Gosho Aoyama
Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase. — Robbie Williams
Every time I meet people working in radio, I'm a little embarrassed. It's all pre-programmed, rigidly formatted stuff. Time and time again, when I talk to jocks, they say how jealous they are of the freedom we have on WKRP. I sometimes have to explain to them that it's not a real radio station. — Howard Hesseman
If our credit be so well built, so firm, that it is not easy to be shaken by calumny or insinuation, envy then commends us, and extols us beyond reason to those upon whom we depend, till they grow jealous, and so blow us up when they cannot throw us down. — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
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
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
Don't you complicate your mind
Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. — Bob Marley
Being Jealous Quotes
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
Males shouldnt be jealous. Thats a female trait. — Jay-Z
Ladies, if you saw me jackin off in a ferrari would you be jealous? — Lil B
Don't be jealous of other people's success. Celebrate it, use it as inspiration. Life is way more fun that way. — Lex Fridman
Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me. — J. K. Rowling
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
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands. — Oscar Wilde
Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society. — Delphine de Girardin
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
I'm Liam Gallagher and I'm in Oasis. The whole world is jealous of me. It should be. — Liam Gallagher
Jealous And Envy Quotes
When you feel jealousy, you shift all your attention and energy to whoever is making you jealous. — Tim Grover
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. — William Shakespeare
Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time. — Drake
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
Jealous Man Quotes
We learn from here the humility of the Holy One, Blessed is He. Since man is in the likeness of the angels, and they would be jealous of him, for this reason, He consulted them. — Rashi
Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man. — Michelangelo
Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes, and for your failures. You can't go blaming others, or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live. — Kevin Bacon
We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent-see, he's jealous, he cares-a woman shows how much she cares by how much she's willing to be hurt; by how much she will take; how much she will endure; how suicidal she's prepared to be. — Andrea Dworkin
A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs. — William Penn
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven. — Woody Allen
I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do. — Adriana Lima
If the average man is made in God's image, then a man such as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God, and so God may be jealous of him, and eager to see his superiority perish with his bodily frame. — H. L. Mencken
Envy And Jealousy Quotes
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
Three great obstacles to progress: guilt, envy, and resentment. — Dan Sullivan
Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy. — Aeschylus
People get a taste of success and lose their appetite. — 21 Savage
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that. — Oliver Stone
Disgust is often more deeply buried than envy and anger, but it compounds and intensifies the other negative emotions. — Martha C. Nussbaum
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
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
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
I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career. — Milla Jovovich
Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. — Mary Schmich
If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love... Love with all your strength, love as though it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty. — Yasmina Khadra
Your Jealous Quotes
The store of rice in your attic is your enemy — it makes them who have none very jealous. — Thai Proverbs
The ego is your enemy, not your friend. It is the ego that gives you wounds and hurts you. It is the ego that makes you violent, angry, jealous, competitive. It is the ego that is continuously comparing and feeling miserable. — Osho
Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up? — Sean Covey
Tohru(thinking): There is an umeboshi-- on your back. Tohru (outloud): Maybe the reason people get jealous of eachother is because they can clearly see the umeboshi on other people's backs. I can see them too. I can see them perfectly. There is an amazing umeboshi on your back, Kyo-kun. — Natsuki Takaya
If you are going to ask your crush for their phone number, you are one of the small group of women I am so jealous of. — Mindy Kaling
Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. — Oscar Wilde
If someone is being unkind or petty or jealous or distant or weird, you don't have to take it in. You don't have to turn it into a big psychodrama about your worth. That behavior so often is not even about you. Don't own other people's crap. — Cheryl Strayed
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures. Everything is better than some things and worse than others. Which you choose to compare your experiences and situation with determines whether you will be happy and grateful or sad and jealous. — Leon Trotsky
Learn to use the criticism as fuel and you will never run out of energy. — Orrin Woodward
If you don't like me, why do you waste your time making fun of me? — Chad Anderson
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
Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts. — Anna Godbersen
A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it. — Lionel Shriver
[We often] criticize the people on TV: 'He just can't act.' 'You call that singing?' ... We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us. — Young-ha Kim
When a jealous person sees signs of other people's success and good fortune, his heart is pierced with envy. But someone who has learned to rejoice in the good fortune of others experiences only happiness. Seeing another person's beautiful house or attractive partner immediately makes him happy - the fact that they are not his own is irrelevant. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. — Mother Teresa
I could no longer afford to be jealous or unfriendly, because, as soon as I was, a bandage came down over my eyes, and I was bound hand and foot and cast aside. All at once a black hole opened, and I was helpless inside it. But when I was happy and serene, approached people with confidence and thought well of them, I was rewarded with light. — Jacques Lusseyran
Insecurity is an ugly thing. It makes you hate people you don't even know. — Drake
...Individualistic material progress and the desire to gain prestige by coming out on top have taken over from the sense of fellowship, compassion and community. Now people live more or less on their own in a small house, jealously guarding their goods and planning to acquire more, with a notice on the gate that says, 'Beware of the Dog. — Jean Vanier
People whistle me because I am good-looking, rich and a great footballer. They are jealous of me. — Cristiano Ronaldo
A person worth envying is a person who doesn't envy — Boonaa Mohammed
I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that. — Alain Prost
When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that. — Frank Bruno
I'm very jealous of an era where people were inventing something so beautiful as the Concorde and thinking that's the next step. I'm jealous of an era when people thought, "Let's finally go to the Moon." — Aleksandra Mir
People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's blessings. — Jill Scott
Where the grass is greener, the water bill is bigger. — Rick Warren
We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It's ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you. — Joel Osteen
Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it — Washington Irving
There will always be a few people who just want to knock you down or are jealous or just want to be horrible for the sake of it. I don't know what drives someone to be nasty. — Geri Halliwell
You will throughout your life have people who will tell you that you're not good enough. Maybe they're jealous. Maybe they think you aren't. Maybe they've had a bad day. But ultimately you have to believe in yourself. — Meredith Vieira
I found it." "People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers." "And ravens," Ronan said. "You're just jealous 'cause" - at this point, he had to stop to regroup his beer-sluggish thoughts - "you didn't find one, too. — Maggie Stiefvater
I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little. — John Fowles
People project their own dreams, fantasies, and prejudices onto my life. So people are either fans, or jealous, or disagree. Everybody marches to a different drummer. — Hugh Hefner
Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them. — Paulo Coelho
Some people say Larry the Cable Guy's only successful because he's pandering to the lowest common denominator, blatantly and not ironically exploiting people's racist and homophobic tendencies. Don't listen to these people, Larry. They're just bitter and jealous and right. — Greg Giraldo
Don't be intimidated by people who try to belittle your ambitions. Most of the time they are just jealous of your success or determination to reach the highest peaks of the mountains, and reign over them. — Robert Cheeke
People make fun of Jersey girls, but I think they're just jealous. — Teresa Giudice
... the State Legislatures will jealously and closely watch the operations of this Government, and be able to resist with more effect every assumption of power, than any other power on earth can do; and the greatest opponents to a Federal Government admit the State Legislatures to be sure guardians of the people's liberty. — James Madison
There is not the slightest question but that the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God, inflicting not only on the sinful pagans but even on his Chosen People fire, lighting, hideous plagues and diseases, brimstone, and other curses. — Steve Allen
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