Quotes About Envy

The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won't have time to envy the man above him.

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.

Haters will broadcast your failure, but whisper your success.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Haters are just confused admirers.

Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.

Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor.

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

Success--something your friends will never forgive you.

Congratulations is the civility of envy.

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment.

May my haters live very long to see my continued success and make their lives miserable.

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.

"In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you."

Those who think he had lucky breaks are not only unaware of the real story but also fall prey to that sin of the mediocre: bitchiness about others' success