Evan Esar Quotes

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

I think people are just haters. When they see people doing well, some people, if there's something wrong, they'll pick at that.

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

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

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

Everyone's a critic: when you are doing something good, everybody wants to bring you down, and that's something I've been told. People want to see you do good, but not too good.

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

If you don't have haters, you're doing something wrong.

When you're good at something, there's always someone to spit on you.

And all the haters I swear, they look so small from up here.

One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people - I categorize them as life's losers - who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I'm concerned, if they had any real ability, they wouldn't be fighting me, they'd be doing something constructive themselves.

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

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.

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

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

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

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

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

When you get haters you actually feel like you're a success.

Everybody has haters.

People want us to fail because we have won the league so many times. United won the league long before I was here.

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

The moment our youth succeed, we try to figure out how to tear them down.

We've got a thing called the 'tall puppy syndrome' in New Zealand, where if anyone is doing really well, it's quite common to try and bring them down - like, cut them down and say, 'You've been to the moon? So what? I mean, plenty of people have been to the moon.'