Jealousy Envy Quotes - Page 3

• The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Jealousy, Envy

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• Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Jealous, Envy, Ego

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• Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Jealousy, Sight, Firsts

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• A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sad, Jealousy, Knowledge

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.236, Penguin

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  You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

  Margaret Atwood

  Jealousy, Thinking, Being Jealous

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Nov 12, 2016

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• 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, Envy, Romance

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.60, Bantam

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• No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful or greedy. Unless you let him.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Anger, Jealous

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• 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

  Funny, Beautiful, Jealousy

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• The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

  Germaine Greer

  Hurt, Regret, Women

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

  Matthieu Ricard

  Buddhism, Envy, Suffering

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• Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

  Drake

  Jealousy, Hate, Humble

  Song: Over My Dead Body, Album: Take Care, 2011

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• Drop jealousy and envy, for they make you ugly. Be loving, be accepting, and most of all... be happy just the way you are.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Envy, Ugly

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• What is envy? It is nothing but passive jealousy. Maybe jealousy is too strong a phenomenon; envy is a little passive. The difference may be of degrees, but it is not of quality, it is only of quantity. Envy can become jealousy at any moment; envy is just jealousy in progress. Mind has to drop all envies and jealousies.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Strong, Differences

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• Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

  Samuel Johnson

  Jealousy, Envy, Your Jealous

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.128

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• Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Peace

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• You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

  Gary Allan

  Jealousy, Stars, Moon

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

  George Eliot

  Love, Jealousy, Anger

  The Mill on the Floss bk. 1, ch. 10 (1860)

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• Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Jealousy, Fun

  1977 HowTo SaveYour Own Life.

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• Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

  Honore de Balzac

  Jealousy, Stupid, Envy

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• It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

  Aeschylus

  Friendship, Jealousy, Character

  "The Oresteian Trilogy". Play by Aeschylus, 458 BC.

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• As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

  Antisthenes

  Jealousy, Anger, Passion

  "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers (§ 5)". Book by Diogenes Laertius, circa 200 AD.

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• Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Jealousy, Sarcastic

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 41

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• Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Jealousy, Loneliness, Envy

  House in Paris (1935) pt. 2, ch. 8

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• Surround yourself with positive people.

  Melanie

  Inspirational, Positive, Jealousy

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• 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

  Jealousy, Dragons, Envy

  Alfred Richard Orage (1954). “Essays and aphorisms”

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