Famous Quotes

"Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere."

Van Wyck Brooks 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 Van Wyck Brooks

• "The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man."

• "People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding."

• "There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few."