Karen Civil Quotes

If a friend got a big promotion, I would outwardly congratulate them, but inside I would painfully compare myself with them and think that their success was a reflection on my failings.

Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.

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

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

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

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

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

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.

It's easy in this world, in this business, to get caught up and get jealous of people.

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.

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

The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Jealous leaders measure their success by the failure of others.

Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success.

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

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

Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

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.

I think it bothers people to see people that are happy and successful. So they try to find what's wrong with them.

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.