Steven Pressfield Quotes

Judi Dench should be ashamed of herself for being so talented and working so much.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.

People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.

The more people love you, the more there's going to be people that hate you.

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

Critics or musicians who attack me are jealous of my success and the fact that I make people feel so happy.

Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, For envy is a kind of praise.

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

There have been interviews with people saying they are jealous of Kangana. There are so many people who are jealous of my success.

Most people who are hating on you, they are not worried about where you are. They're worried about where you're going.

When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes it's envy and jealousy.

Give me a celebrity, I'll give you your haters. Some people shine, and some people don't like when they shine. Ask Barack Obama - he'll tell you.

Duke has a lot of haters, but I know it means you're doing something right if they're hating you.

When you become successful, half the population puts you on a pedestal, and half the population treats you with less respect than you would have got if you were collecting their bins.

When you have haters, you're doing something right.

There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in him, and to see only what is bad. There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good.

When you read magazines and you see everybody having fun, you think, ‘okay, that’s where I want to be.’ But once you get in it and you achieve the success that you want, it seems like that’s where the player hating starts. You know that’s where everybody’s like, ‘Well it’s not all that

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

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

If you are not envied, you are not enviable.

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

"In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you."

We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.

In school that used to happen a lot: they'd get me to sing and then they'd hate me for it.