If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Jealousy
The poison of comparison and the path to freedom
Jealousy is the face of low self-esteem. A healthy mind does not speak ill of others.
Treat haters like toddlers. When people criticise your life they are speaking about their fears and limitations not yours. Only take advice from those achieving what you want to achieve. Ignore and be flattered by the rest. Never hate people who are jealous of you. Respect their jealousy - they think that you're better than them. If someone is copying you, you won.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Jealousy is the art of counting someone else's blessings instead of your own.
Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point - that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you.
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
Jealousy is the dragon that slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
Jealousy is the grave of affection.
Comparison is the thief of joy.
Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition, and the perpetual tormentor of virtue.
Jealousy is the rage of a man: and he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.
Jealousy is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.