According to a study conducted by researchers from Universidad de Zaragoza in Spain, envy is the most prevalent basic personality trait shaping human behavior that is present in almost one-third of the population. In the same study, researchers found that 90% of the population can be divided into four main personality traits: optimistic, pessimistic, trusting, and envious. And guess what, the largest proportion (30%) turned out to be "envious." Although more studies would be required to support these findings, the truth is obvious - everyone has felt envy or jealousy at some point in their lives. However, some cope with these toxic feelings better than others.
That may be envy over someone who gets to go on holiday twice per year, perhaps someone is jealous that one grew up with both parents, or jealous because someone got to eat three times today, not just once. And to be fair, all these reasons are valid. However, envy is not an emotion one should feed off of to gain motivation. It's a negative emotion that only draws hatred. It doesn't inspire nor motivate us to strive for any good.
If you are someone who is struggling to deal with negative emotions, quotes about jealousy and envy can lead you on the right path. Reading through some wise words and inspiring quotes really can make a difference. It's all about how we react and perceive things. Someone having something better than you or living a presumably better life shouldn't make you envy or even hate them.
Often, envy and jealousy are rooted in low self-confidence and unresolved past issues. The many envy quotes and quotes about jealousy condemn these emotions, with some even referring to them as "diseases." Although entirely natural and often detected unintentionally, this germ that is jealousy and envy should be shooed away and not allowed to spread.
Below, we've gathered some inspiring words from many sage individuals, as well as quotes on jealousy and the essence of envy. Let us know if any of the quotes about envy reached the deepest chambers of your heart.
#21
"The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build." — Margaret Thatcher
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#22
"Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to change." — Gretchen Rubin
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#23
"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy." — Heraclitus
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#24
"Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace." — Petrarch
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#25
"Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts." — Jean Vanier
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#26
"Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it." — William Shenstone
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#27
"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 jealousy, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise." — Evander Holyfield
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#28
"Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy." — Oliver Stone
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#29
"Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred." — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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#30
"The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy." — Denis Waitley
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#31
"It is better to be envied than pitied." — Herodotus
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#32
"Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied." — Criss Jami
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#33
"A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones." — Proverbs 14:30, NIV
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#34
"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 neighbor to have them through envy." — Aristotle
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#35
"A sign of wealth: no envy, no fear." — Greg Isenberg
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#36
"We experience envy when the quality we feel inferior about threatens our self-concept." — Shane Parrish
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#37
"We are always trying to become something else. We are always trying to become noble, to become a hero, an example, an ideal; and if we really go behind this urge to become, we will find that there is envy and that behind that envy there is fear, the fear of what one is." — Jiddu Krishnamurti
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#38
"Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both." — Robert Burton
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#39
"Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead." — Mark Twain
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#40
"The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet." — William Hazlitt
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