1. There’s always this one girl. She’s desperate and she’s weird and she’s jealous, and you’re stuck with her, no matter how hard you try to get her off your back.

- Courtney Summers

2. Most people want to see you do better, but not doing better than them.

- London Mond

3. Jealousy is information. It tells you what you desire, what you admire, what you despise in yourself.

- Marcus Aurelius

4. Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

- Ann Brashares

5. I am used to jealousy and people putting me in a box and labeling me without really knowing me.

- Sonja Morgan

6. Jealousy is such a waste of time because you’re jealous of them, and they go about their lives and have a wonderful time, so what’s the point?

- Joy Behar

7. Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

- Gene Tierney

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

- Elizabeth Bowen

9. Jealousy is a scary thing.

- Laura Dern

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

- George Eliot

11. What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?

- Michael Connelly

12. I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter, and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition.

- Shannon Alder

13. Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.

- Job 5:2, ESV

14. More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

- Joseph P. Kennedy

15. Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

- William Shenstone

16. In jealousy, there is more of self-love than love.

- Fran?ois de La Rochefoucauld

17. The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

- Criss Jami

18. Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

19. Maybe jealousy and envy would fade if we knew the full story behind success. Maybe we would be less likely to put people on a pedestal.

- James Clear

20. Jealousy – that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

- Emil Cioran

21. Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.

- B.C. Forbes

22. Jealousy – that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

- Emil Cioran

23. Jealousy is the great exaggerator.

- Johann Chrisoph Friedrich von Schiller

24. 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

25. I’m jealous of every minute you spend with him, of every concerned emotion you send his way, of every tear shed, of every glance, every touch, and every thought.

- Colleen Houck

26. Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life.

- Yoko Ono

27. Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth.

- Susan Cain

28. Do you want to be that person with all of their reactions, their desires, their family, their happiness level, their outlook on life, and their self image? If you’re not willing to do a whole sale, 24/7, 100% swap with who that person is, then there’s no point in being jealous.

- Naval Ravikant

29. Jealousy or a zero-sum view of success, someone else getting all the attention.

- Jerry Neumann

30. It’s such a poisonous emotion because, at the end of the day, you’re no better off, you’re unhappier, and the person you’re jealous of is still successful or good-looking or whatever they are.

- Naval Ravikant

31. Anger, resentment, and jealousy don’t change the heart of others – it only changes yours.

- Shannon Alder

32. Jealousy is beautiful only on a young and ardent face. After the first wrinkles, trust must return.

- Alfred Camus

33. The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

- Colette

34. The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

- Publilius Syrus

35. Jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt.

- Terri Guillemets

36. People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.

- Lord Chesterfield

37. Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

- Havelock Ellis

38. Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

39. Fear often manifests in cynicism, anger, jealousy, and anxiety. I worry that many of our communities are being driven by fear.

- Vivek Murthy

40. Jealousy is a disease. Get well soon.

- Paris Hilton

41. Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

- Gore Vidal

42. Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy,’ he thought. ‘For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistible urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.’

- J.R. Ward

43. 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

44. 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

45. Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

- Arthur Golden

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

- Drake

47. Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it.

- Ibn Taymiyyah

48. Jealousy is when you count someone else’s blessings instead of your own.

- Amanda Metcalf

49. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

- Seneca

50. A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.

- Robert A. Heinlein

51. Jealousy is one of the wickedest of all the passions. But reprehensible though it is, jealousy is almost rather to be pitied than blamed – its first victims are those who harbor the feeling.

- Arthur Lynch

52. 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

53. Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment.

- Betty White

54. Anger, hatred and jealousy never solve problems, only affection, concern and respect can do that.

- Dalai Lama

55. I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.

- Graham Greene

56. 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

57. Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have.

- Sophia Loren

58. 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

59. 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

60. Even if people pretend that they’re OK with it, jealousy can eat people alive.

- Phoebe Fox

61. You have to be great friends and make each other laugh. We laugh a lot and neither is jealous of the other.

- Ruby Wax

62. Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

- Lord Byron

63. Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

- Honoré de Balzac

64. 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.

- Debbie Ford

65. Jealousy isn’t a pleasant quality, but if it isn’t overdone (and if it’s combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there’s even something touching about it.

- Milan Kundera

66. Jealousy’s a weak emotion.

- Jay-Z

67. 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

68. Jealousy can open the blood, it can make black roses.

- Sylvia Plath

69. You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you.

- Peter Deunov

70. It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

- Lawrence Durrell

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

- William Penn

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

73. Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it.

- Fran?ois de La Rochefoucauld

74. When you do well, everybody’s after you, and sometimes the motive are legitimate, and sometimes it’s envy and jealousy.

- Robert Kraft

75. Jealousy is a dog’s bark which attracts thieves.

- Karl Kraus

76. Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.

- Helen Rowland

77. I don’t believe in comparing myself with anyone else, as that leads to hatred and jealousy.

- Shehnaaz Gill

78. Jealousy—tormenting yourself, for fear you should be tormented by another.

- Paul Chatfield

79. I hate jealousy so much that if I ever do feel it, I try to shut it down immediately, but it’s so hard.

- Peyton List

80. Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

- William Shenstone

81. It’s true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others.

- Helen Fisher

82. The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.

- Dorothy Dix

83. 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

84. You can’t be friends with someone who wants your life.

- Oprah Winfrey

85. O! Beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.

- William Shakespeare, Othello

86. Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

- Honoré de Balzac

87. There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.

- Lope de Vega

88. Love shouldn’t be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can’t have that from the get-go, there’s a problem.

- Aaron Carter

89. 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

90. Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw.

- Gosho Aoyama

91. Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

- H.G. Wells

92. Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

- George Eliot

93. Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

94. Envy is for people who don’t have the self-esteem to be jealous.

- Bauvard

95. No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

- Alice Walker

96. Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

- Aphra Behn

97. The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

- Salvador Dali

98. Someone who smiles too much with you can sometimes frown too much with you at your back.

- Michael Bassey Johnson

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

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

- Margaret Atwood

101. A little jealousy can be a good thing, for we may be reminded to appreciate what we have.

- Shane Parrish

102. Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

- Miguel de Cervantes

103. I don’t want anything negative in my life, like hate, comparison, competition, and jealousy. I think these things are very heavy and take away from you the way of enjoying life.

- Vivek Oberoi

104. Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

- Van Wyck Brooks

105. Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them.

- Paulo Coelho

106. I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn’t. It’s a pain.

- Floyd Dell

107. A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

- Arnold H. Glasow

108. 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

109. Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.

- Shannon L. Alder

110. The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

- Bette Midler

111. Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

- Matthew McConaughey

112. He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.

- Ana?s Nin

113. To live without comparison is to remove a tremendous burden.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

114. He that is jealous is not in love.

- Saint Augustine

115. Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.

- Iris Murdoch

116. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

- Mother Teresa

117. Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy.

- Oliver Stone

118. My wife’s jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

- Rodney Dangerfield

119. Trifles light as air; Are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

- William Shakespeare

120. Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.

- H.L. Mencken

121. Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.

- Alfred R. Orage

122. Jealousy is the grave of affection.

- Mary Baker Eddy

123. Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

- Paul Eldridge

124. Men are jealous of every woman.

- Jan Neruda

125. People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren’t wise in hindsight because of jealousy.

- Kristin Bauer van Straten

126. 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.

- Jennifer James

127. Jealousy is unavoidable – it’s part of the price we pay for intimacy.

- Rachel Simmons

128. Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.

- Emma Goldman

129. My jealousy is a living thing. Shifting, changing, growing. Like my rage and my mother’s regret.

- Katja Millay

130. 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

131. No one can have all he wants, but a man can refrain from wanting what he has not, and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

- Seneca