Quotes on Jealousy

Because racism is not like jealousy or selfishness, it is not a primal urge or a basic instinct, it is a 400-year-old political and economic system that has infected our institutions, our culture and even our thinking.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... 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.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

You want your children to love the nanny, but at the same time, you want to stay the mother, and you want to be the most-loved. So there is a sort of jealousy between the mother and the nanny.

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

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

Whether we consider the individual, family, local, national or international level, peace must arise from inner peace. For example, making prayers for peace while continuing to harbor anger is futile. Training the mind and overcoming your anger is much more effective than mere prayer. Anger, hatred and jealousy never solve problems, only affection, concern and respect can do that.

Mentally, physically and emotionally we are the same. _x000D_ _x000D_ We each have the potential to good and bad and to be overcome by disturbing emotions such as anger, fear, hatred, suspicion and greed. These emotions can be the cause of many problems. _x000D_ _x000D_ On the other hand if you cultivate loving kindness, compassion and concern for others, there will be no room for anger, hatred and jealousy.

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was

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

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.