Samuel Johnson Quotes

I would like to be like Britney, but maybe better, but I don't wanna outshine her.

A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had is a waste of precious energy. Because we are all unique, what makes another happy may do the opposite for you. That's why advice is nice but often disappointing when heeded.

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

I think it's in human nature to want to have more, to compete with the other and, at some level, to be dissatisfied if someone else has more than you.

I'm just trying to play my best and have fun.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

Success is somebody else's failure.

In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.

Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

To me, life is so exciting. To me, life is always trying to beat someone in something competitive. It's kinda been my whole life.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

I think envy motivates a lot of people.

Happiness needs one-upmanship.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it.

When are four women ever happy for another woman getting something they'd love to have? Tell me that.

There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

There is always going to be someone more successful, richer, better looking, or with a nicer car.

I was never one who sought to make the small man tall by cutting off the legs of a giant. I wanted to drag no man down to my size. Only to preserve a way of life which might make it possible for me, one day, to elevate myself until I at least partly matched his size.

I like to think I'm a good, kind person who does the right thing, but I don't ever feel sorry for someone who didn't get the part that I got. Not for one second.

People try to do better than other people. It's an incentive.