Quotes about jealous

Yves Tanguy -

Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.

Patrick Henry -

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.

Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Ladder

Leaders don't cheat they don't envy. Leaders don't hate they don't curse. Leadership is a positive service to mankind.

A.G. Howard - Splintered

We're both so into it, neither of us hears the footsteps until a snarl breaks us apart. We turn to find Morpheus standing there with enough rage in his black eyes to send the Devil packing for heaven.Jeb tugs his fingers from the rings in my belt but keeps a hand at my lower back. I touch my lips; they're throbbing and gluttonous, hungry for

Virginia Alison -

Men are not naturally faithful creatures. They have an ego that is in constant need of stroking and usually anything in a skirt fits that need. I never feel the need to make a man jealous in retribution for his infidelity. I simply pick up the wine and find a new taster...

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

He who makes $25,000 annually through passive income is more enviable than he who earns $100,000 annually through a salary.

C.J. Carlyon - The Cherry House

I would rather be destroyed by you than loved by anyone else.

Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach -

. . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other's throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a scruple and even as a duty, the greatest crimes, and shed torrents of blood . . . Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under divers names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty. We find, in all the religions, 'a God of armies,' a 'jealous God,' an 'avenging God,' a 'destroying God,' a 'God,' who is ple

C.J. Carlyon - The Cherry House

I’m jealous of the cherries that have been in your mouth,” he said, “that they get to make your lips so red.” He kissed her softly, teasing her tongue with his, a lustful wet caress, and Austen was suspended in air. “I’m jealous of every single day before today that I didn’t get to spend with you.

Fredrik Backman - My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

Because when you love someone very much, it's difficult to learn to share her with someone else.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes

It's silly to think the left eye would envy the right or that one foot would be jealous of the other, and yet so often it is the case.

Kami Garcia - Beautiful Darkness

I couldn't look at her. I'd been jealous and hurt, and I had dragged Liv into the middle of my own broken mess of a life. All because I thought Lena didn't love me anymore. But I was stupid, and I was wrong. Lena loved me so much, she was willing to risk everything to save me. I had given up on Lena, after she had refused to give up on me. I owed her my life. It was as simple as that.

Karen Kingsbury -

Friends don't get jealous of each other or begrudge the other for finding success. They celebrate every victory together.

Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365

A hopeful life is a successful life. People who bury their hopes and crave for someone’s success never know that their diamond is hidden as they envy other’s silver!

Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Watchwords

When you understand who you are by knowing what God created you to do, you have no room for becoming jealous over what someone else is doing.

Roberto Hogue - Real Secrets of Sex: A Women's Guide on How to Be Good in Bed

If you know yourself and don’t have a belief that other people are better than you, then you simply can’t feel jealous or threatened.

Shannon L. Alder -

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.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people.

T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

When 'Dirty Mack' salts your flow, get beyond feelings of hurt, anger, bitterness, and especially vengeance. Be glad, and take refuge in knowing light has been cast on the shadow of hatred, envy or jealousy that has mocked your shine. And press forward with your purpose - allowing time and space to clear the way for karmic justice on your behalf.

Johann Kaspar Lavater -

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

Joy Behar -

I don't get jealous of people. 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?

Bill Burr -

I gotta be honest with you. I'm kind of jealous of the way my dad gets to talk to my mom sometimes. Where are all those old-school women you can just take your day out on? When did they stop making those angels?

Gary Allan -

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

William Penn -

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

Adriana Lima -

I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.

Germaine Greer -

Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

Ambrose Bierce -

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

Jeff Foxworthy -

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

Thomas Jefferson -

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

Nigel Hamilton -

That's the miracle of Amazon! It's like Internet dating. In the early days, you could get slimed as an author on Amazon by someone bearing a grudge, or jealous, or whatever. And because there were so few reviews posted, this stank.

Gina Rinehart -

There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain - do something to make more money yourself.

Adriana Lima -

I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.

Venus and Adonis William Shakespeare -

For where Love reigns, disturbing JealousyDoth call himself Affection's sentinel;Gives false alarms, suggesteth mutiny,And in a peaceful hour doth cry 'Kill, kill!

Stephanie Perkins - Lola and the Boy Next Door

Okay, I've lied to him. But you saw how jealous he gets. It makes me feel like I have to. And I shouldn't defend my right to be friends with another guy.

Lauren Oliver - Requiem

I want to apologize to you,” she says calmly.“Oh yeah? For what?” I don’t have time for this. We don’t have time for this. I push away thoughts of what will happen to Hana even if I manage to escape. She’ll be here, in the house . . .My stomach is clenching and unclenching. I’m worried the bread will come straight back up. I have to stay focused. What happens to Hana isn’t my concern, and it isn’t my fault, either.“For telling the regulators about 37 Brooks,” she says. “For telling them about yo

Michael Grant - Gone

He’s becoming useless. Worse than useless,” Sam said. Then, relenting, he said, “We’ll get past it.”“You mean you and Quinn?”“Yeah.”Astrid considered just keeping her mouth shut, not pushing it. But this was a talk she needed to have with Sam sooner or later. “I don’t think he’s going to get over it.”“You don’t know him that well.”“He’s jealous of you.”“Well, of course I am so terribly handsome,” Sam said, straining to make a joke of it.“He’s one kind of person, you’re another. When life is goin

George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss

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

ketan r shah -

The source and content of information remain the same...the response creates divergent emotions,while negative response creates jealousy positive creates motivation.

Molly Ringle - Persephone's Orchard

Did I mention really, really jealous.

Gena Showalter - The One You Want

I’ve known him a long time. I admire him. Hell, I might even love him. He helped me when—well, he helped me, and I owe him. He never lies, never plays games. He always says what he means and means what he says. And he has made it clear you’re off-limits.

Emily Matchar -

If you're not at least a tiny bit jealous at this point, you might want to check for your own pulse.

Dalina Bradley B. -

There is no jealous man, without a flirtatious woman.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

Millions upon millions will attain your ceremony, but don't think all of them are in a ceremonius mood.

Thomm Quackenbush - #2)

[T]hese friends were of the female persuasion, and while by and large they were bi and large, they still represented potential threats on [her] feminine radar.

Dan Pearce - Single Dad Laughing

I'm not saying you are jealous or insecure. I'm just saying that you obsessing over another person's accomplishments makes you look that way.

Gustave Eiffel -

I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.

Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses

Ravings, in short, jealousy of the past, the worst kind of all.

Dianna Hardy - Releasing The Wolf

You chase off every man that’s ever been interested, and you do it without even trying.

Francesca Lia Block - Wasteland

Once she was standing by her locker and her puka shells broke and scattered and she made a joke about it but he could tell she was upset. He wanted to buy her some more. He wanted to give her a million strands of little nesting polished shells, and tropical flowers and ice creams and lemonades and a pale blue surfboard to teach her to surf on and anything else she wanted. Instead he let his checkered Vans step on one of the rolling shells and crush it.

Jennifer L. Armentrout - Onyx

How did you know I was different?” “You mean besides the obvious obsidian, the alien entourage, and the branch?” He laughed. “You’re full of electricity. See?” He reached between the seats and placed his hand over mine. Static crackled, jolting us both. Daemon grabbed Blake’s hand and threw it back at him. “I do not like you.

Margaret McMullan -

When you're and only child in a family with an only parent, you look at other, bigger families with envy. Mary Alice had a family with a station wagon, a split-level house, and a pool. But then I looked up and saw Mary Alice's toes, as she stood at the edged of the diving board. Her second toe lay on top of her big toe on each foot. I had never seen such a thing. I wondered if Mary Alice's toes would ever prevent her from doing the things she wanted to do in life. "Look, y'all!" she said, formin

Matthew McConaughey -

I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill.

Saint Augustine -

He that is jealous is not in love.

Mario Teguh -

Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.

Karl Rove -

And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.

James Mercer -

For some reason, it seems like pop writers, it's like they just get worse or something over time. And then you're really jealous of movie directors whose careers seem to grow and they'll be 70 years old and still doing these incredible jobs. I'm going to reverse that, I hope.

Rachel Bilson -

That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.

Anushka Sharma -

I do have moments when I feel insecure. I do have moments when I feel jealous, and that's normal. It's a very normal emotion. It's your action and your attitude and your reaction to that that is important.

Colleen Boyd - Swamp Angel

Hello, Rylan,"Ivy greets me. Even with her transformation, her voice still has that magical quality about it. Her white arms wrap me in a hug, which I return. Throughout the room, I can hear disappointed sighs; the crazy-hot babe is taken.

Andrew Sikaja -

Jealous is just a wish that it was you doing that thing.

Ice Cube -

I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.

Eowyn Ivey - To The Bright Edge of the World

I would believe again if I could. In goodness. In magnificence. In simple benevolence. Yet even in these far and icy valleys, mankind is no different, just more poorly armed. Strip away psychrometer and sextant, carbines and glass plates, skin shifts and quills and painted faces, and we are the same. Quivering maws. Gluttonous. Covetous. Fearful. We say we worship. A word. A man-god. A fiery mountain. But we worship only ourselves. And we are jealous gods.

Natalya Vorobyova -

Because of the green-eyed one, I see red and that makes me blue.

Becca Fitzpatrick - Silence

Patch's eyes made a slow assessment of me, sharpening to vivid black. "I'm going to have a hard time sending you off with Scott in that dress. Just a heads-up: If you come home and the dress looks even slightly tampered with, I will track Scott down, and when I find him, it won't be pretty.

Criss Jami - Killosophy

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

Muse - Enigmatic Evolution

Saturated Arrogance...she rebuked those about herin darkness did she dwella pathetic historyall mortal man would tell..

Yann Martel - Life of Pi

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can get.

Donna Lynn Hope -

Reassuring a jealous woman that you don't want her man creates the bigger beast of resentment because that tells her that what she has isn't desirable and to her, where the opinions of others correlates to her self-worth, is unforgivable.

Michael Grant - Plague

ot everyone liked Albert. Not everyone was happy that he had become the most important person around. Lots of people were jealous that Albert had a girl to clean his house and the porcelain basin where he did his business at night when he didn’t want to go outside to the only actual outhouse in Per-dido Beach. And that he could afford to send his clothes to be washed in the fresh water of the ironically named Lake Evian.And there were definitely people who didn’t like working for Albert, having

Toba Beta - My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Man allowed by God to do good and evil.That's why some of angels feel so jealous.

Jane O'Connor - Fancy Nancy and the Mermaid Ballet

It's just hard now because... you're jealous. But your heart is so generous and warm, it will melt the bad feelings away." I am 100 percent positive that my mom is the wisest mother in the world.

Srishtie -

Jealousy is a general human behavior, Until it's not changed.

Jess C. Scott - Bedmates

I knew what it felt like to have no say in who you were as a sexual being. It didn’t just strip away your dignity. It stripped away everything you were: your identity, your self-respect, your pleasure. Because it was all about the pleasure of the other person take, take, taking whatever they wanted from you, even if it was uncomfortable, or caused you pain. Even if you died from it, the other person still wouldn’t care, because it was all about them.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

When you're working, some people relax and wait for the invisible right time, but when they see your fortune, they wake up and strategize an envious attack.

Kiersten White - And I Darken

None of them are real to me.” He paused again, placing a hand flat against the door. “You are the only real thing in my life.”Radu gasped with the sheer physical pain the words sent through him. But the sound of his agony was covered by that of the door opening. Mehmed reached in and pulled Lada out to him, and then his mouth was on hers and his hands were in her hair and he was holding her so tightly, so tightly, and they stumbled back into Lada’s room and closed the door.Radu tripped forward,

Kristen Hope Mazzola - Crashing Back Down

I wasn't trying to make you jealous. But if jealousy does this to you, I might need to consider it.” He gripped my sides firmly, letting his lips gently dance over mine, “Mags, I’m yours. You have nothing to worry about.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo - Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

I love being in love, but I also love other things, like not being jealous, overly sensitive, or needy.


Steve Maraboli - Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.

Rasheed Ogunlaru -

If you're jealous of someone else it simply means you have not come to a true acceptance and appreciation of yourself.

Sunday Adelaja -

Every victory and success that God will give you will make others jealous it will cause hatred and opposition as well

H.J. Bellus - The Big O

I’m twenty-four, a first grade teacher, have a Yorkie named Pedro, a goldfish named Fish, have never had sex, or a serious boyfriend, and I’m the town lesbian who pukes when she sees a pussy. Nothing really to be jealous of at all.

Criss Jami - Killosophy

When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.

Ezra Taft Benson -

There is, however, a far more common ailment among us—and that is pride from the bottom looking up. It is manifest in so many ways, such as faultfinding, gossiping, backbiting, and murmuring, living beyond our means, envying, coveting, withholding gratitude and praise that might lift another, and being unforgiving and jealous.

Anton Rubaclini -

Gossip is the sound of jealously.

Shannon L. Alder -

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. They reach the summit last because they know God isn’t at the top waiting for them. He is down below helping his followers to understand that the view is glorious where ever you stand.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

If only you could see the greatness in yourself, you wouldn't envy the greatness in others.

Sunday Adelaja -

As soon as you successful, people will get jealous and become your enemy

Kamand Kojouri -

My love, you are driving the entire world mad. The nightingales are committing suicide one by one out of jealousy of your voice. The roses took one glance at your beauty and folded themselves from shame. The trees now only whisper your name and the sky hasn’t stopped crying since you looked up. Have pity on us, my love. We have already broken all the mirrors and glass out of fear that you will forget us and fall in love with yourself once you see what we all cannot stop seeing.

Nabil N. Jamal -

Here's how man thinks: "If no one’s done it, why should I try? It’s a waste of time; but if he’s done it, I can do it better.

Munia Khan -

Wings can only flyas long as the bird flies Soul blackens when you put on vestment of lies White candle wax criesfor ignitable wickJealous people burnto make your heart feel sick

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