If you feel like you can certainly relate, then these inspirational jealousy quotes are a great read for you to brush off those bad vibes and keep your head held high.
As they say, jealousy is a sin. In life, we often encounter people who simply don’t know how to be happy for others.
Do you have some haters in your life that you would like to gain some perspective on?
Envy is an emotion that eats up many of us.
It is unhealthy, it prevents us from moving forward, and it fixates us on what others have, instead of what we want to work for.
There is a Buddhist term, Mudita, which means sympathetic or unselfish joy.
Joy in the good fortune of others. The opposite of Mudita is envy and jealousy.
It is a gift to be able to let envy go, and it is life-changing to turn the emotion around into a positive that motivates and inspires us.
Here are some thoughts on envy to consider as you are moving forward with your life.
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Jealousy Quotes About Love, Relationships and Friends
1. “Envy is the coward side of Hate, and all her ways are bleak and desolate.”- Henry Abbey
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2. “The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.”- Baltasar Gracián
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3. “A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.” – Proverbs 14:30
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4. “Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.” – Spanish Proverb
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5. “Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself.”- Danish Proverb
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6. “Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”- François de la Rochefoucauld
7. “Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space, feels itself excluded.”- William Hazlitt
8. “Take heed you harbor not that vice called Envy, lest another’s happiness be your torment, and God’s blessing become your curse.”- Wellins Calcott
9. “Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”- Buddha
10. “It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”- Aeschylus
11. “It is never wise to seek or wish for another’s misfortune. If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.”- Charley Reese
12. “Our envy of others devours us most of all.”- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
13. “Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another’s prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.”- Charles Caleb Colton
14. “Nothing sharpens sight like envy.”- Thomas Fuller
15. “Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.”- Johann Von Goethe
16. “Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.”- William Hazlitt
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17. “Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.”- William Shakespeare
18. “Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.”- François de la Rochefoucauld
19. “Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.”- John Gay
Envy and Jealousy Quotes about life
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20. “Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self-worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has.”- Unknown
21. “Envy shoots at others and wounds itself.”- English Proverb
22. “Keep yourselves far from envy; it eateth up and taketh away good actions, like as fire eateth up and burneth wood.”- Muhammad
23. “Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man’s self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.”- Francis Bacon
24. “The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.”- Socrates
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25. “Envy is like a fly that passes all the body’s sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.”- Arthur Chapman
26. “Jealousy—Tormenting yourself, for fear you should be tormented by another.”- Paul Chatfield
27. “Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.”- George Bernard Shaw
28. “In jealousy there is more self-love than love.”- François de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665
29. “Envy is a waste of time.”- Author Unknown
30. “The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.”- Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish
31. “It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.”- Lawrence Durrell, Justine, 1957
32. “It is never wise to seek or wish for another’s misfortune. If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.”- Charley Reese
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33. “He that is not jealous is not in love.”- Augustine
34. “The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.”- William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude, 1693
35. “Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.”- Josh Billings
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36. “Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.”- Harold Coffin
37. “Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.”- Elizabeth Bowen
38. “Pure love allows no room for jealousy.”- James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Sparks from the Philosopher’s Stone
39. “Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.”- Spanish Proverb
40. “Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point – that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you. There is only one alternative – self-value. If you cannot love yourself, you will not believe that you are loved. You will always think it’s a mistake or luck.”- Jennifer James
41. “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
42. “Jealousy is the great exaggerator.”- Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Conspiracy of Fiesco, 1783
43. “Jealousy and love are sisters.”- Russian Proverb
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44. “As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.”- Antisthenes
45. “Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit.”- de Puixieux
46. “Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.” – R. Orage
47. “Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.” – George Eliot
48. “[T]he ear of jealousy heareth all things.” – The Bible (Apocrypha), Wisdom of Solomon 1:10
49. “Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.” – Honore de Balzac
50. “Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt.” – Terri Guillemets
51. “Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.” – François de la Rochefoucauld
52. “Envy is ignorance.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
53. “O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.” – Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
54. “Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.” – Honoré de Balzac
55. “Never love unless you can bear with all the faults of man: Men will sometimes jealous be, Though but little cause they see.” – Thomas Campion, ‘Never Love Unless’
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56. “Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both.” – Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
57. “Trifles light as air, are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.” – William Shakespeare, Othello
58. “The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.” – Dorothy Dix
59. “Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.” – Mark Twain
60. “Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.” – François de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims
61. “Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.” – Samuel Johnson, The Rambler
62. “It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.” – Aeschylus
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63. “O! Beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.” – William Shakespeare, Othello
64. “Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has.” – Elizabeth O’Connor
65. “Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.” – Ovid
66. “A show of envy is an insult to oneself.” – Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko
67. “Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.” – William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823
68. “Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.” – Paul Eldridge
69. “The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy.” – François de la Rochefoucauld
70. “Jealousy is a crutch.” – Terri Guillemets
71. “Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.”- Havelock Ellis, On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue, 1937
72. “Jealousy… is a mental cancer.”- C. Forbes
73. “Jealousy hyphenates love in all the wrong places.”- Terri Guillemets
74. “Envy slays itself by its own arrows.”- Author Unknown
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75. “Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.” – Harold Coffin
76. “Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.” – Fulton J. Sheen
77. “Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ” ― Carrie Fisher
78. “Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.” – William Shenstone
79. “Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.” – George Eliot
80. “Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.” –Francois de la Rochefoucauld
81. “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
82. “Jealousy is one of the wickedest of all the passions. It is that which has been the most fruitful mother of tragedies, murders, and wars. But reprehensible though it is, jealousy is almost rather to be pitied than blamed–its first victims are those who harbour the feeling.” –Arthur Lynch
83. “Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.” ― Shannon L. Alder
84. “Jealousy’s a weak emotion.” ― Jay-Z
85. “You can’t be yourself within jealousy.” ― Toba Beta
86. “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
87. “What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you.” — Peter Deunov
88. “Jealousy is an ugly emotion that makes people do some seriously whacked shit and when a woman is experiencing it, it’s worse.” ― Kristen Ashley
89. “Jealousy is love in competition.” ― Toba Beta
90. “A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.” – Robert A. Heinlein
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Thought-provoking jealousy quotes
91. “Don’t waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind.” – Mary Schmich
92. “Jealousy – that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.” – Emile M. Cioran
93. “Passion can quickly slip to jealous or even hatred.” – Arthur Golden
94. “Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.” ― Joseph Addison
95. “Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.” – John Dryden
96. “Jealousy is all the fun you think they had…” – Erica Jong
97. “She let the jealousy slip out of her fingertips.” ― Jodi Lynn Anderson
98. “He who is jealous, is never jealous of what you see, with what is imagined is enough.” ― Jacinto Benavente
99. “A jealous husband is an ugly thing.” ― Keith Ablow
100. “The venom clamors of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog’s tooth.” – William Shakespeare
101. “The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.” – Salvador Dal
102. “You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.” – Margaret Atwood
103. “To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.” – Joan Didion
104. “Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
105. “To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.” – F. Sagan
Other eye-opening jealousy quotes
106. “Grudges get heavier, the longer they are carried.” – F. P.K. Thomajan
107. “The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.” – Bette Midler
108. “A jealous woman does better research than the FBI.” – Unknown
109. “Jealousy is when you count someone else’s blessings instead of your own.”– Roy T. Bennett
110. “Jealousy, that dragon that slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.”– Havelock Ellis
111. “Anger, resentment, and jealousy don’t change the heart of others – it only changes yours.”– Shannon Alder
112. “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.”– Robert Heinlein
113. “You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.”– Gary Allan
114. “You can’t be friends with someone who wants your life.”– Oprah Winfrey
115. “Isn’t it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?”– Sean Covey
Jealousy quotes to contemplate on
116. “Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.” ― H.G. Wells
117. “Stop worrying about someone taking your spot. God already have it reserved. Do the work to get there and fill it!” ― Yvonne Pierre
118. “Jealousy is a disease, it’s like a poison.” ― Francesca Marciano
119. “Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.” ― Irvin D. Yalom
120. “One of the most powerful lessons in life is to recognize that no one can give you power, and many people don’t want you to have it. You have to find the courage to seize it, own it and hold on!” ― Shannon L. Alder
121. “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
122. “Jealousy blurs the focus.” ― Toba Beta
123. “Beware of those who are bitter, for they will never allow you to enjoy your fruit.” ― Suzy Kassem
124. “The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.” ― Colette
125. “Envy suggests inferiority.” ― Wayne Gerard Trotman
Jealousy quotes to make you appreciate what you have
126. “Jealousy is a dog’s bark which attracts thieves.” -Karl Kraus
127. “A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.” -Jean Baudrillard
128. “There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.” -Washington Irving
129. “More men die of jealousy than of cancer.” -Joseph P. Kennedy
130. “Jealousy is the grave of affection.” -Mary Baker Eddy
131. “Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.” -Alexis Carrel
132. “Love shouldn’t be about jealousy or anything like that.” -Aaron Carter
133. “Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.” -Solomon Ibn Gabirol
134. “Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.” -Gene Tierney
135. “Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.” -Helen Rowland
Jealousy quotes about how it steals your joy
136. “Jealousy is the fear of comparison.” –Max Frisch
137. “There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.” –Lope de Vega
138. “As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.” –Antisthenes
139. “The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.” –Johann Kaspar Lavater
140. “Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.” –Aphra Behn
141. “The knives of jealousy are honed on details.” –Ruth Rendell
142. “From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.” –Ludovico Ariosto
143. “Jealousy – that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation – can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival.” –Helen Fisher
144. “Even if people pretend that they’re OK with it, jealousy can eat people alive.” –Phoebe Fox
145. “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
Jealousy Quotes To Help You Avoid Envy
146. “Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.” — Thomas Jefferson
147. “Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealousy, and envy.” — Og Mandino
148. “Do not listen to nay-sayers, or those who may be envious or jealous of your intentions. See the possibilities. The world belongs to the doers not the nay-sayers.” — Byron Pulsifer
149. “Jealousy cuts across, and does not necessarily blend with, other aspects of a relationship.” — Terri Apter
150. “Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.” — William Arthur
151. “If two people can fully trust one another and are good at communicating with each other, jealousy will never win. NEVER!” — Robert Rain
152. “If you’re suffering from problems of self-esteem or from constant bouts of jealousy, it didn’t happen overnight.” — Bailey Jackson
153. “Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears.” — Osho
154. “Dismiss personal jealousy and complaints. Learn to have tolerance and patience, both with yourself and with others.” — Thomas Erikson
155. “Aside from the real threats that are often present in our lives, there are other triggers of jealousy that are rooted in our own problems.” — Ryan Help
Short Jealous Quotes To Inspire Your Day
156. “What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?” — Michael Connelly
157. “Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them.” — Paulo Coelho.
158. “But jealous souls will not be answered so. They are not ever jealous for the cause, but jealous for they’re jealous. It is a monster begot upon itself, born on itself.” — William Shakespeare
159. “I’ve never been jealous before I met you, it burns, luv. Like silver through my veins.” — Jeaniene Frost
160. “Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.” — Lord Byron
161. “Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.” — Adam DeVine
162. “I am used to jealousy and people putting me in a box and labeling me without really knowing me.” — Sonja Morgan
163. “Jealousy is a disease. Get well soon.” — Paris Hilton
164. “Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.” — Drake
165. “It’s a completely useless emotion – jealousy. I don’t go there.” — Joy Behar
Summary
Embracing the concept of unselfish joy helps us to let envy go, and to truly have happiness for others. We are able to truly enjoy this feeling while seeking our own.
We shouldn’t be bogged down by the negative. Instead, let’s be inspired and be motivated by the positive.
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