Jealousy, a common human emotion, has the power to either hinder personal growth or serve as a catalyst for positive change. In this collection of 50 jealousy quotes, we delve into the complexities of this emotion, offering insights and perspectives that can fuel your journey toward personal development. Each jealousy quote serves as a poignant reminder that envy is not merely a stumbling block but an opportunity for self-reflection and improvement.
“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.” – Harold Coffin
“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.” – Fulton J. Sheen
“It’s a completely useless emotion – jealousy. I don’t go there.” – Joy Behar
“Jealousy eats away at relationships like acid. It’s corrosive and destructive. It destroys trust and intimacy.” – Dr. Gary Chapman
“Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.” – John Berger
“Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.” – John Dryden
“Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.” – Gene Tierney
“Jealousy is an ugly emotion because it is based on fear. Fear is ugly because it is based on ignorance. Ignorance is ugly because it prevents people from seeing things clearly.” – Deepak Chopra
“They all laughed when I said I’d become a comedian. Well, they’re not laughing now.” – Bob Monkhouse
“Don’t waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind.” – Mary Schmich
“Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.” – Gene Tierney
“Friends ask you questions; enemies go around asking others about you looking for the answer they want to believe” – Maria Nieves
“The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.” – Denis Waitley
“There is nothing as useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” – Peter F. Drucker
“I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire. Another life is never safely envied.” – Robert Wells
“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
“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
“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.” — William Penn
“A lot of people get so hung up on what they can’t have that they don’t think for a second about whether they want it.” — Lionel Shriver
“A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.” — Robert A. Heinlein
“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.” — Bette Midler
“There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.” — George Eliot
“Jealousy’s a weak emotion.” — Jay-Z
“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
“The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.” — Dorothy Corkille Briggs
“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.” — Carrie Fisher
“Envy is the coward side of Hate, and all her ways are bleak and desolate.” – Henry Abbey
“The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.” – Baltasar Gracián
“A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.”
“Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.” – Spanish Proverb
“Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself.” – Danish Proverb
“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.” – François de la Rochefoucauld
“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
“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
“Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.” – Buddha
“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”- Aeschylus
“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
“Our envy of others devours us most of all.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“Envy, if surrounded by the brightness of another’s prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.” – Charles Caleb Colton
“Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has an aptitude for it or not.” – Johann Von Goethe
“I get jealous because I am afraid that someone is going to make me happier than I am.“
“I am jealous of the rain that falls upon your skin where my hands can never be.“
“A jealous woman does better research than the FBI.“
“You never realize how much you love someone until you watch them loving someone else.“
“Jealousy is when you want something that is not yours. Territorial is protecting what’s already yours.“
“Jealousy, that dragon that slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.“
“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.“
“You can’t be friends with someone who wants your life.“
“A unicorn doesn’t stand around and worry about what other unicorns think. It just sparkles.“
“There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.“
“Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.”
“It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.“
“Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent indeed tend to be more jealous than others.“
“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.“
“It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change, and deny our emotions—especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy, loneliness, shame, rage, and grief.“
As you explore these jealousy quotes, you’ll find that they not only articulate the nuances of this emotion but also provide a roadmap for channeling jealousy into personal growth. From ancient wisdom to modern insights, these quotes illuminate the universal truth that jealousy is an inevitable part of the human experience. By acknowledging and understanding jealousy, you can harness its energy to propel yourself forward. So, let these jealousy quotes be your guiding light, encouraging you to embrace jealousy not as a weakness, but as a powerful force that can drive you to become the best version of yourself. In the realm of personal growth, these jealousy quotes offer both solace and inspiration, reminding us that our journey toward self-improvement is uniquely our own, and jealousy is but a stepping stone along the way.
