Herodotus Quotes

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say.

The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.

Success is like food caught in your teeth: much more noticeable when it happens to other people. If it happens to you, other people have to take you aside and say something.

When you become successful, half the population puts you on a pedestal, and half the population treats you with less respect than you would have got if you were collecting their bins.

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

In America, if you succeed, you don't have to apologize. In Italy, success is envied, and envy is the worst, worst, worst thing in the world. It's easy for me to say because I have had more than many others, but at the end of the day, I have never envied anyone. I wish to no one that they waste their time envying anyone else.

It's not people who resent successful people; it's resentful people who resent successful people.

I think it's way harder when you have success, 'cause people tend to not treat you the same or look at you the same because they see the success or the money you make.

How success changes the opinion of men!

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 really helps to know what success is before you get there, and if you know, then you can head right for it. For some people, it's the most money. For some, it's the most power. For some, it's the most girlfriends. Everybody's got a measure. For me, I guess it's having the respect and admiration of your peers.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

Critics or musicians who attack me are jealous of my success and the fact that I make people feel so happy.

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

Idolizing is a strong word, though. I'm happy that people respond well to the work I'm doing now. If anyone admires what I'm doing in any way, then I'm really proud of it.

Our success is now so apparent to others that one of our biggest challenges now is to manage the resentment it sometimes generates.

Politicians respect a lot of things, but nothing so much as success.

There have been interviews with people saying they are jealous of Kangana. There are so many people who are jealous of my success.

I think I am very proud of being associated with quality things. So if I were massively famous for doing massively beloved things, yeah, that sounds great.

No matter how successful you are, no matter how good you are at what you do, even if a golden path rolls out in front of your feet your whole life, there will come one particularly bleak Tuesday when you glance over at Facebook and notice that Jen From Down The Hall has just won an Oscar.

For me, an aspiration is to be respected by my peers, people in the industry.