Jon Bon Jovi Quotes

Obama is like the kid brother whose only standard for judging his own achievements is the records his big brother set.

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

Sometimes you have success and not so much success versus certain people.

We are bred to compare ourselves to the next person, to what they have and what they have accomplished.

The grain is always greener in foreign fields, and the flocks of our neighbor have richer yields

Being first doesn’t mean anything unless there is a second.

Success to me is anybody who does something better than somebody else.

We're all constantly keeping score. You can't help it. But trying to pit ourselves against other people in some measurable way is largely a waste of time.

Success in football is relative. If you take a job at a school that finished with a 1-9 record the year before, you're considered a good coach if you finish 5-5 in your first season. But what happens if you start with 8-2 or 9-1?

Success is somebody else's failure.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

It's never your successful friends posting the inspirational quotes

We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.

We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.

I was feeling guilty in the beginning; it was frustrating to be successful when a lot of my friends weren't. Also, I was constantly being reminded of that by people in my family making jokes.

A person is ruined by taking the measure of other persons.

...success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

Alone, human beings can feel hunger. Alone, we can feel cold. Alone, we can feel pain. To feel poor, however, is something we do only in comparison to others.

I mean people -- people don't get -- they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed and you can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is, and he's doing these things, you know, and he's getting rich, and your spouse is getting unhappy with you because you aren't doing -- pretty soon you start doing it. And so you get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots.

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.

It's not fair to use movies that weren't creatively successful as a reason why something won't work.