Jealousy Quotes

• Life is one big road with lots of signs,
  So when you riding through the ruts,
  Don't you complicate your mind
  Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy
  Don't bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Song: 'Wake Up and Live!'". 1979.

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

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Being Jealous, Your Jealous

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Nov 12, 2016

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• Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Sad, Self Confidence, Acceptance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Know that whoever is trying to bring you down, is already below you.

  Boonaa Mohammed

  Trying, Your Jealous, I Am Jealous

  FaceBook post by Boonaa Mohammed from Nov 22, 2013

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  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

  Life, Envy, Mind Your Own Business

  Epictetus, Sharon Lebell (2013). “The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness”, p.4, Harper Collins

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  Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

  Will Smith

  Forgiveness, Hater, Bullying

  Song: Just the Two of Us, Album: Big Willie Style, 1997

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• The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Envy, Jealous People

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.188

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• Everybody isn't your friend. Just because they hang around you and laugh with you doesn't mean they're for you. Just because they say they got got your back, doesn't mean they won't stab you in it. People pretend well. Jealousy sometimes doesn't live far. So know your circle. At the end of the day real situations expose fake people so pay attention.

  Trent Shelton

  Fake Friends, Fake People, Real

  FaceBook post by Trent Shelton from Nov 05, 2013

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• O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

  William Shakespeare

  Envy, Tragedy, Green

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 165

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• Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Envy, Catholic, Genius

  "Walk with God".

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• The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Time, Mad, Devil

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• 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

  Evil, Envy, Causes

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• Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what they have been through.

  Sam Cawthorn

  Inspirational, Life, Positivity

  FaceBook post by Sam Cawthorn from Jul 16, 2011

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  Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Life, Positive

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

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• Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears.

  Rajneesh

  Attitude, Unique, Understanding

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From I to Q”

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• 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

  Often Is, People, Behavior

  Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul”, p.82, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

  Joseph Addison

  Disease, Jealously, Jealous And Envy

  "The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314".

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• When you're ambitious, it's really hard to be supportive of other people. But it's our job to try, even though one gets jealous.

  Squeak Carnwath

  Jobs, People, Supportive

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• Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Flames, Wind, Scorpions

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• Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

  Josh Billings

  Relationship, Hate, Love You

  Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.304

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• Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

  Margaret Mead

  Insecurity, Depth, Degrees

  Margaret Mead, William O. Beeman (2004). “Studying Contemporary Western Society: Method and Theory”, p.293, Berghahn Books

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• A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.

  William Penn

  Character, Men, Giving

  William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.853

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• To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

  Joan Didion

  Self, Cures, Jealous And Envy

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 17, 2011

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• He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

  Lord Byron

  Hate, Ambition, Looks

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.65, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Fun, Thinking

  1977 HowTo SaveYour Own Life.

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