#jealous

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

#anything #competent #incapable #insecurity #invariably

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#assumes #condition #disease #essential #greater

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet. ↗

— Hesiod

#craftsman #grudge #jealous #poet #poor

That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes. ↗

— Martina Hingis

#because #course #florida #i #jealousy

Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#feel #good #good work #jealous #make

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 jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#endeavor #envy #get #give #hard

I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business. ↗

— Carlos Alazraqui

#bitter #business #get #i #jealous

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#around #bonds #burst #caught #eager

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#bride #corpse #ever #good #good wishes

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#against #alone #feeling #more #smiling