Jealous Quotes

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

Positive, Yourself, Important

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
Thomas Jefferson

Beauty, Wisdom, Her

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

Others, Themselves, Torment

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.
Sting

Life, Change, Why

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
Patrick Henry

Nothing, Give, Liberty

There will always be a few people who just want to knock you down or are jealous or just want to be horrible for the sake of it. I don't know what drives someone to be nasty.
Geri Halliwell

Someone, Down, Few

He that is jealous is not in love.
Saint Augustine

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Fool, Care, Words

That's the way I got along in life. 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

Life, Remember, Deserve

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
Ambrose Bierce

Lost, Worth, Concerned

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
Gary Allan

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

Time, Same, Mad

Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.
Dennis Prager

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!
Marie de France

Love, Friendship, May

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.
Alain Prost

Success, Work, Hard

But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes... And we don't judge and we don't betray. We're not jealous. We're not envious. We're not even weary, which is a danger also as kids. They have to learn a certain amount of awareness.
Colin Farrell

Judge, Children, Eyes

I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.
Thurgood Marshall

Husband, Die, Expect

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
Arthur Keith

Nature, Ambitious, Envious

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.
Scott Weiland

Around, Dead, Fish

I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it.
Mike Krzyzewski

Life, Love, Success

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
William Wycherley

Death, Sleep, Revenge

I get a little jealous of these actor boys. They walk into a club, and in two seconds flat there are swarms of girls who are wanting so badly to touch them or just say hello. That's not the case with me, or any other girl I know.
Claire Danes

Girl, Two, Touch

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.
Mike Nichols

Person, Dead, Room

Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Time, Great, Future

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

Life, Live, Give

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Betrayed, Smell, Alike

People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise.
Evander Holyfield

Work, Envy, Hard

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.
Hesiod

Poor, Against, Poet

It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
Clare Boothe Luce

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.
Jeff Foxworthy

Dad, Before, Year

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