Top 82 Most Meaningful Quotes on Jealousy (ENVY)

Top 10 Most Famous Quotes on Jealousy

“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!”
Bob Marley

Jealousy… is a mental cancer. - B. C. Forbes — Jealousy… is a mental cancer. – **B. C. Forbes**

He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. - Buddha — He who envies others does not obtain **peace** of mind. – **Buddha**

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. - William Penn — The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. – William Penn

“Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy,’ he thought. ‘For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistible urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee’.”
J.R. Ward

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that. - Oliver Stone — Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that. – Oliver Stone

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. - Robert A. Heinlein — A **competent** and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. – Robert A. Heinlein

“I think it’s important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state – meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.”
Heidi Klum

Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own. - Amanda Metcalf — Jealousy is when you count someone else’s **blessings** instead of your own. – Amanda Metcalf

Jealousy is a disease. Get well soon. - Paris Hilton — Jealousy is a disease. Get well soon. – **Paris Hilton**

6 Quotes on Jealousy To Conquer Hate and Resentment

“There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul. It is a fact that we all must face. However, if you realize that God is a best friend that stands beside you when others cast stones you will never be afraid, never feel worthless, and never feel alone.”
Shannon Alder

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. - Carrie Fisher — **Resentment** is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. – **Carrie Fisher**

Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them. - Paulo Coelho — Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them. – **Paulo Coelho**

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred. - Arthur Golden — **Passion** can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred. – Arthur Golden

Anger, resentment, and jealousy don't change the heart of others - it only changes yours. - Shannon Alder — Anger, resentment, and jealousy don’t **change** the heart of others – it only changes yours. – **Shannon Alder**

Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up - Sean Covey — Isn’t it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up? – Sean Covey

3 Quotes on Jealousy That Will Vanquish Your Fear

Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness. - Honoré de Balzac — Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and **fear** spells pettiness. – **Honoré de Balzac**

Jealousy is the fear of comparison. - Max Frisch — Jealousy is the fear of comparison. – Max Frisch

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, it spills itself in fearing to be split. - Gertrude, 'Hamlet' — So full of artless jealousy is guilt, it spills itself in fearing to be split. – Gertrude, ‘Hamlet’

16 Quotes on Jealousy To Overcome Bitterness

“Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.”
Johannes Brahms

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. - Aphra Behn — Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our **health**, than secret notions of jealousy in **solitude**. – Aphra Behn

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds. - Helen Rowland — Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds. – Helen Rowland

“There’s no regret. You can’t regret. I mean, I’ve felt regret but I’ve also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don’t believe it. You feel it, it’s like guilt, it’s like jealousy, it’s like all those horrible things. You’ve just got to snip them and get them out, because they’re no good.”
Jude Law

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive. - Alexis Carrel — Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive. – Alexis Carrel

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. - Mary Schmich — Don’t waste **time** on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. – Mary Schmich

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. - Ambrose Bierce — Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. – **Ambrose Bierce**

“Jealousy isn’t a pleasant quality, but if it isn’t overdone (and if it’s combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there’s even something touching about it.”
Milan Kundera

That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it. - Clyde Tombaugh — That’s the way I got along in life. I don’t ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can’t do it myself, I don’t deserve to get it. – Clyde Tombaugh

Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself. - Friedrich Nietzsche — Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself. – **Friedrich Nietzsche**

“I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter, and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition.”
Shannon Alder

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 — 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

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard. - Washington Irving — There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard. – Washington Irving

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. - George Eliot — Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. – **George Eliot**

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. - Erica Jong — Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. – **Erica Jong**

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. - Francoise Sagan — To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than **laughter**. – Francoise Sagan

14 Quotes on Jealousy in Love

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

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 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**

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. - Buddha — It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. – Buddha

Love shouldn’t be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can’t have that from the get-go, there’s a problem.
Aaron Carter

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… - Robert A. Heinlein — Love is that condition in which the **happiness** of another person is essential to your own… – Robert A. Heinlein

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive. - Havelock Ellis — Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive. – Havelock Ellis

I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.
Graham Greene

There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy. - Lope de Vega — There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy. – Lope de Vega

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld — Jealousy contains more of **self-love** than of love. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is the grave of affection. - Mary Baker Eddy — Jealousy is the grave of affection. – Mary Baker Eddy

He that is jealous is not in love. - Saint Augustine — He that is jealous is not in love. – Saint Augustine

I’m jealous of every minute you spend with him, of every concerned emotion you send his way, of every tear shed, of every glance, every touch, and every thought. - Colleen Houck — I’m jealous of every minute you spend with him, of every concerned emotion you send his way, of every tear shed, of every glance, every touch, and every thought. – Colleen Houck

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain! - Marie de France — If one of two lovers is **loyal**, and the other jealous and false, how may their **friendship** last, for Love is slain! – Marie de France

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike. - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette — The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

3 Quotes on Jealousy in Success

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods. - Herodotus — But I like not these great **success** of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods. – Herodotus

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. - Salvador Dali — The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. – **Salvador Dali**

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you. - Bette Midlerla — The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you. – Bette Midlerla

7 Wise Quotes on Jealousy and Envy

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. - Antisthenes — As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. – Antisthenes

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. - Baltasar Gracian — The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. – **Baltasar Gracian**

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority envy our uneasiness under it. - William Shenstone — Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. – William Shenstone

Envy is for people who don’t have the self-esteem to be jealous. - Bauvard — Envy is for people who don’t have the self-esteem to be jealous. – Bauvard

Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw. - Gosho Aoyama — Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw. – Gosho Aoyama

Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied. - Mark Twain — Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied. – **Mark Twain**

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. - François de La Rochefoucauld — Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. – François de La Rochefoucauld

4 Quotes on Jealousy for Women

“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

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy. - Marilyn Manson — I am drawn to women who are independent and **creative**, which is problematic because it’s a **struggle**, a competition of careers. There’s jealousy. – **Marilyn Manson**

Men, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. - Moderata Fonte — Men, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. – Moderata Fonte

People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn’t going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it’s all about? Jealousy.
Summer Altice