Patrick Beverley Quotes

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It's ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.

If you're unhappy with your circumstances, then change them. Don't blame the government or your boss or the guy down the street who's better looking than you (exceptions include Hugh Jackman and George Clooney). Just take some Pepto-Bismol and be a man (or woman, for all of you bullish feminists).

I grew up at a park, and everybody was always for themselves. I was the smallest, so I had to find a way to get my own rebounds, and it always translated throughout my whole career.

Feeling jealous doesn't make you a terrible person.

I was jealous of colleagues when I should have been happy for them. I decided to save my energy. If you think they are great works, you should buy them.

I wasn't a kid who won every tournament I was playing, and I think that helped me - it motivated me a lot to know what it felt like not to win.

Success has a lot of things that go along with it and I haven't experienced any personal resentment. I can't control any of that and I try not to worry about it. I hope that's not the case, you know. Most of the writers that I know and artists that I know understand what was going on. I think there's just as many things going on in the awards process that have to do with the show having won a few times.

Went from being hated on, to Niggas try to go down the same road I made it on. Aint no love lost but aint no love shown, so now when niggas call i just don not pick up the phone.

I started to do everything I could to succeed, but found that the more successful I became, the less people liked me.

Don't waste your time on jealousy.

A lot of people are always striving for bigger and better. People are always wondering if the grass is greener and then they'll​ start hearing things or meeting other people.

I'm competitive with myself, not at the expense of everything around me. I never wanted to be a movie star. I just wanted to act.

We have to compete within ourselves relative to the determination it takes to be successful.

Either your troubles make you better, or they make you bitter. We must always examine what’s going on in our hearts.

I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?

Anyone that dares begrudge what I have today, just better get off their duff and do something about it.

I'm tired of being a nice guy, I've been poor all my life, but don't know quite why.

What is envy? It is nothing but passive jealousy. Maybe jealousy is too strong a phenomenon; envy is a little passive. The difference may be of degrees, but it is not of quality, it is only of quantity. Envy can become jealousy at any moment; envy is just jealousy in progress. Mind has to drop all envies and jealousies.

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

Rise above your circumstances, change the world one person at a time starting with you, and be the inspiration you’ve been searching for.

If you want to be Mark Spitz then go for it. If you want to be Michael Phelps then you'll have to work for it. Nobody should wake up to a lower expectation of themselves.

All the people who knock me down, only inspire me to do better.

Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

The jealousy that arises from another's achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one's own and other's achievement.