Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like.
Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
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