Jeff Van Gundy Quotes

We judge people in areas where we're vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we're doing.

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

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

You can't compare an apple to an orange. It will cause a lot of self-esteem issues.

We are bred to compare ourselves to the next person, to what they have and what they have accomplished.

Miss India actually made me feel small.

When it comes to personal appearance, people are quick to cast judgment on people who look better than them. It's part of the human inferiority complex.

I think a lot of people can get wrapped up in comparing themselves. And that's when the tragic downfall comes, because there will always be someone more beautiful.

You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?

People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.

The amount of people that I feel like... I'm not being self-demeaning, but I actually feel like I'm not as cool as them, you know what I mean?

I have a little theory about that, too. It's clearly envy. It's bringing people down to your size. It's a narcissistic impulse that didn't used to exist, but we've become increasingly narcissistic as a society, and envy is one of those outcomes.

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 is a declaration of inferiority.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

It is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment.

If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy. ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego.

Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.

Like many people, I think I'm my own worst critic. And I think I take a lot out in an internally abusive way, looking at how I measure up, which usually was never enough. I never, never was as good as someone else.

The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.

Comparing how you feel on the inside (bad) to the way someone else looks on the outside (great) is a losing proposition. It's an impossible standard.

People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem

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.

I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.

Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?