Eric Hoffer Quotes

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 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.

Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.

I don't get jealous of people. Jealousy is such a waste of time because you're jealous of them, and they go about their lives and have a wonderful time, so what's the point?

Anyone that hates on you is always below you, because they're just jealous of what you have.

Feeling jealous doesn't make you a terrible person.

The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal.

It's not healthy to be jealous.

I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.

I don't think the world is jealous of me.

I'm jealous of the 'Love Island' girls. I wish I was that confident.

Envy is the religion of the mediocre

People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun, but a dead little rock floating in space next to their gold and their blaze.

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

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

Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence you’ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write, you are probably going to have to deal with it, because some wonderful, dazzling successes are going to happen for some of the most awful, angry, undeserving writers you know-people who are, in other words, not you.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

I've always felt that people put me down, and I'd fight back. I played football 15 years, and nobody gave me any credit, and they never will do.

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

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?

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