Too much jealousy kills joy and love. If you envy someone else or have to deal with jealous people, these jealousy quotes resonate with you.
In the ideal world, we would be happy about others’ happiness and cheer for others’ success. And in the perfect relationship, we will feel secure and never fear betrayal. But that’s not necessarily the case in real life.
If you’ve been in a relationship, chances are you have experienced jealousy. And there will be competition and envy at school or work. You may be the one who gets envied or the one who envies someone else. Unfortunately, schools don’t teach us how to deal with jealousy. But it’s a feeling we have to cope with too often.
While some may say that jealousy can be proof of love or motivation, too much of it can consume your energy and disrupt your inner peace. So here is a list of jealousy quotes to stop comparing yourself with others or to care less about your haters.
Quotes about being jealous in love and relationship
Jealousy is a delicate emotion. Without love, there will be no jealousy. But too much jealousy can extinguish love. The following jealousy quotes capture the bitterness and insecurities one can feel in love.
I get jealous because I am afraid that someone is going to make you happier than I do.
– Frank Ocean
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.
– Unknown
You never realize how much you love someone until you watch them loving someone else.
– Unknown
Jealousy is when you want something that is not yours. Territorial is protecting what’s already yours.
– Unknown
Jealousy, that dragon that slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.
– Havelock Ellis
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
You can’t be friends with someone who wants your life.
– Oprah Winfrey
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Thought-provoking jealousy quotes
Everyone has an imaginary enemy that, to some extent, inspires them to be better. But when all you focus on is someone else’s life, you can easily overlook your beauty and potential. So here is a list of jealousy quotes to stop envying others and start living your best self.
Winners focus on winning. Losers focus on winners.
A unicorn doesn’t stand around and worry about what other unicorns think. It just sparkles.
Some people only hate you because of how others love you.
Jealousy comes from insecurities.
Comparison is the thief of joy.
Great minds see your talent as an asset. Small minds take it as a threat.
People throw rocks at things that shine.
– Ours, Taylor Swift
The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.
– Bette Midler
Jealousy is when you count someone else’s blessings instead of your own.
– Roy T. Bennett
Anger, resentment, and jealousy don’t change the heart of others – it only changes yours.
– Shannon Alder
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
– Carrie Fisher
If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves.
– Rumi
You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.
– Margaret Atwood
Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.
– Anna Godbersen
When you have wit of your own, it’s a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.
– Criss Jami
Admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
– William Arthur Ward
You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
– Gary Allan
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
– Erica Jong
Quotes about jealous people
Some people hate you because you have something they can’t have. So they gossip about you, spread rumors about you to take away your shine. So your ignorance will stop them from doing so. And these quotes about jealous people will help you to unsubscribe from their negative energy.
Their jealousy is proof that you are doing better than them.
Isn’t it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?
– Sean Covey
They hate you, but they secretly want to be you.
Hating on my success won’t make you a winner.
Watch those who don’t clap when you win.
They want to see you do good, but not better than them.
Watch how some people love you until you become competition.
Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.
– Criss Jami
They’ll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.
– Suzanne Collins
Often those that criticize others reveal what he himself lacks.
– Shannon L. Alder
Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.
– Shannon L. Alder
The jealous are troublesome to others but a torment to themselves.
– William Penn
Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.
– Dennis Prager
They are not jealous of what you have. They are jealous of what they can’t have.
Most haters are stuck in a poisonous mental prison of jealousy and self-doubt that blinds them to their own potentiality.
– Steve Maraboli
If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.
– Debbie Macomber
Which of these jealousy quotes resonates with you?
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