Jealousy Quotes

• We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • World
  • Long
  • Trying

• I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • School
  • Hair
  • Anger

• Hatred, jealousy, and fear hinder peace of mind. When you're angry or unforgiving, for example, your mental suffering is constant. It is better to forgive than to spoil your peace of mind with ill feelings.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Peace

• Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Cancer
  • Jealousy
  • Mental

• There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Strong
  • Never
  • Jealousy

• Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Power
  • Envy
  • Jealousy

• Shredder is about as evil as it gets. He is a man fueled by jealousy and rage. At the same time, he doesn't micromanage, so his gang is free to do what they want.

  

  Lenny Platt
  • Time
  • Free
  • Evil

• What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Fear
  • Loved
  • Happily

• Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Men
  • Country
  • May

• Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Dog
  • Jealousy
  • Thieves

• Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

  

  David Seabury
  • Work
  • She
  • Character

• Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small...and you will escape the jealousy of the great.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Great
  • Small
  • Jealousy

• And God help you if you are a phoenix, and you dare to rise up from the ash.A thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy, while you're just flying past.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Up
  • God
  • Help

• I was an outsider. I was the egghead from academia who got in because the rules had changed. While I looked for validation from my fellow contemporaries, I instead found jealousy and envy. I did not find team spirit. This led to dissatisfaction, an unease.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Team
  • Envy
  • Outsider

• My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

  

  Jack Roy
  • May
  • She
  • Wife

• Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

  

  Gene Tierney
  • Jealousy

• Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love...

  

  George Eliot
  • Jealousy

• Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?

  

  Mary Douglas
  • People
  • Music
  • Believe

• I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.

  

  Keira Knightley
  • Fake
  • Lust
  • Jealousy

• The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Women
  • Eyes
  • Husband

• Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time.

  

  Sarah Brightman
  • Time
  • Love
  • Hate

• If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • inspirational

• True confidence leaves no room for jealousy. When you know your are great, you have no need to hate.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Great
  • True
  • Funny

• I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Hate
  • Jealousy

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