Quotes about Jealousy
False friends will launch their covert sneers; True friends will wish me dead; And I shall cause the bitterest tears That you have ever shed.
- Emily Bronte
Protect what belongs to you at all costs; don't desire what belongs to another.
- Epictetus
The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.
- Erica Jong
Die Gesellschaft stellt eifersüchtig denen nach, die sich von ihr ausschließen, und wird kommen und an die Pforte pochen.
- Joseph Campbell
Yahweh—a jealous god, who would hold men to himself and who turned mankind away from the Tree of Immortality, instead of leading us to it. Such a god in the Orient would be regarded as a deluding idol.
- Joseph Campbell
Instead of being resentful that God is jealous, we should be thankful that He is like that. It shows He cares!
- RT Kendall
Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone else's. Their reward is being a cut above the rest. This is the enmity of pride.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Maybe, if you put your disbelief aside, roll up your sleeves, take some risks, and totally go for it, you'll wake up one day and realise you're living the kind of life you used to be jealous of.
- Jen Sincero
It was not just the prodigal in the far-off country who squandered the love of the father; the older brother lost out as well, though he was close to the father's love.
- Ravi Zacharias
We have lost the shared meanings of pain, and so the shared meanings of victory become occasions for jealousy.
- Ravi Zacharias
The person who forgives is always greater than the one who is jealous and angry.
- Joyce Meyer
We are not jealous of what anyone else has if we have the same thing. Fear comes when we are afraid we will be left out or have to do without what we want.
- Joyce Meyer