envy of success Quotes

People whistle me because I am good-looking, rich and a great footballer. They are jealous of me.

Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.

Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

I wasn't even in a newspaper office where I was getting assignments in competition with other people. I remember earlier, though, that I knew a young woman who had been published in the New Yorker, and I was so jealous of her. It wasn't exactly a personal competition. I just envied that accomplishment.

Only America makes you feel that everybody wants to be like you. That's what success is: Everybody wants to be like you.