Famous Quotes

"What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld on Jealousy

More quotes about Jealousy

• "Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!"

  Bob Marley on Jealousy

• "A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity."

  Robert A. Heinlein on Jealousy

• "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 on Jealousy

• "Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy."

  Aristotle on Jealousy

• "Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them."

  Johannes Brahms on Jealousy

More quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• "It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

• "Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

• "The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age."

• "It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone."

• "Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected."