Jack Canfield Quotes

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 always thought everybody else was better than me.

Miss India actually made me feel small.

A lot of people keep saying that I am insecure and I keep trying to axe my co-actors' roles, but that's rubbish!

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

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

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 was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off.

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.

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.

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

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.

Certain woman will be jealous of how skinny you are, no matter what's causing it.

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

If a friend got a big promotion, I would outwardly congratulate them, but inside I would painfully compare myself with them and think that their success was a reflection on my failings.

Sometimes I feel like I have a good shot, and then I see somebody that has a better shot.

Feeling jealous doesn't make you a terrible person.

There will always be jealous people and haters: people who assume that if they were in your shoes, they could do what you're doing. That's just the world we live in.

I feel like, especially being around other girls, it's really easy to start picking yourself apart and being like, 'Wow, she looks better than me.'

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.

The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed.

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.

I hate it when people say, "Oh, women are just jealous." I'm not jealous, but I do beat myself up about what I haven't accomplished in my own life yet - and when you meet a woman who has accomplished what you expect to achieve, and she's also dating your ex, of course it's hard!

I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.