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.
#81
"Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock." — Francis Beaumont
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#82
"Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals." — Jonathan Sacks
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#83
"Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking." — Bainbridge Colby
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#84
"I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities." — Louis MacNeice
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#85
"This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high." — Abraham Cowley
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#86
"The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor." — Horace
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#87
"A man shall never be enriched by envy." — Thomas Draxe
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#88
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery" — Winston Churchill
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#89
"Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that." — Oliver Stone
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#90
"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered." — Aeschylus
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#91
"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears." — Cesare Pavese
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#92
"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
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#93
"The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch." — Jim Rohn
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#94
"The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous." — Rabindranath Tagore
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#95
"The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring." — Victor Hugo
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#96
"Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell." — Charles Bukowski
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#97
"I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy — I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection." — Irvin D. Yalom
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#98
"A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned." — Xun Kuang
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#99
"There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy." — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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#100
"I envy the dead." — William Mulholland
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