Evangeline Lilly Quotes

People will become your enemies if you become eminent too quickly in life, and you will be ineffectual. Rising slowly in the world, people will be your supporters and your happiness will be assured.

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.

The more you win, the less people like you.

I am succeeding because people are talking about how they would do it better.

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

When you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

I think envy motivates a lot of people.

When you are growing up, everyone will help you. When you reach the top, everyone will start pulling you down. The same people who help you will be the same people who try to pull you down.

Unsuccessful people get jealous when they watch the Mastery of others. Successful people get inspired.

People throw rocks at things that shine.

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

It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you’re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

We hate it when our friends become successful.

People hate it when you're better than them. They ain't hating, start worrying then.

One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people - I categorize them as life's losers - who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I'm concerned, if they had any real ability, they wouldn't be fighting me, they'd be doing something constructive themselves.

I've had so many challenges throughout my career, however successful people perceive me to be.

You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.

People always want to knock you when you're up.

Half the hoes hate, half them love me. The ones that hate me only hate me cuz they ain't [expletive] me.

A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.

Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.

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

Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

I think we are all the sum of that which has happened in our lives. And if you're successful, it would be wrong to think that you'd be more successful had something been easier. That's not a given.