Alex Ferguson Quotes

No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.

People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.

We can better see what we don't have. The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the absence of green in our own lives.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.

Geese are but Geese tho' we may think 'em Swans; and Truth will be Truth tho' it sometimes prove mortifying and distasteful.

The average person can look at someone in public life and say they have it all, but they might be struggling. Or you may think another person has more apparent challenges, but she's deeply grateful for her life. I don't think anyone can judge what having it all means for someone else.

Most of the time, we keep looking outside and feeling sad about what others have. Those are mere excuses.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side.

Image overshadows reality in our league, and there are people who get to believe they are better than they really are.

Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.

We look at a person and see the person we want to see. I've had to deal with that my whole life, walking in a room and girls thinking I'm going to steal their boyfriends!

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too–maybe even yours.

The grass is always greener on the other side, unless Vince Russo has been there in which case the grass is most likely dead.

I was looking at these actresses sort of sitting around under umbrellas, people bringing them cold drinks and I was like, 'That looks so much easier than what I'm doing' and I was so wrong.

If you think of someone's good qualities as the umeboshi in an onigiri it's as if their qualities are stuck to their back! Maybe the reason people get jealous of each other is because they can see so clearly the umeboshi on other people's backs.

I will not look at another's bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.

Even if you think the grass is greener on the other side, you’re going to have to mow that side too.

If you want a fulfilled life, stop thinking about wealthy people and what they have and you don't. Stop thinking from a place of scarcity.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

Remember, the grass is always greener where you don't happen to be the neighbor.

The most important things that one's working on are not necessarily the most important things that one thinks one's working on.

Everybody thinks the grass is greener on the other side. If you talk to most artists, they think they can play something, you know, "If I had stayed playing football in high school, if I had been doing basketball..." Everybody's got their fantasies and thinks the grass is greener. It's not. It's not.

I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it.