Jess Phillips Quotes

People will find any reason not to give you credit for your success because, in their mind, your success is their failure.

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

Sometimes spending time with someone who is perceived as 'successful' can make us feel less successful.

I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.

I hate those people that get up and they're amazing. I think you just have to be kind of wasted to go and do it.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

For some reason, we can't just enjoy somebody else's success. Somehow, that's going to affect us. If they have more, then I have less - and I don't know why.

My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and you hear so many 'fail' stories.

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

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

Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.

My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

I don't like being jealous.

Sometimes I feel like I have a good shot, and then I see somebody that has a better shot.

I have been that actor who's watched peers and thought, 'God, they're doing well. I'll never get there.'

There are so many people around who are unsuccessful in life. They still bother to pinpoint because they think that if they are not able to do anything, they should humiliate those who are doing something.

I'm just a deeply jealous person. And I want blame everybody else for what I don't have.

There will always be jealous people and haters: people who assume that if they were in your shoes, they could do what you're doing. That's just the world we live in.

I had a desperate need to be Van Gogh or something. Some tremendous artist. Jack's so successful, what's wrong with me, why isn't this working for me? I hated myself.

Those who feel threatened by you or your success will seek to tear you down.

A lot of people keep saying that I am insecure and I keep trying to axe my co-actors' roles, but that's rubbish!

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced my way, I couldn't help but feel guilty, even though I hadn't done anything wrong.