Jodi Picoult Quotes

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

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

When you first start off, you see what other people have and quietly say, "I want that."

We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.

Envy, envy eats them alive. If you had money, they’d envy you that. But since you don’t, they envy you for having such a good, bright, loving daughter. They envy you for just being a happy man. They envy you for not envying them. One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren’t happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

Writers are always envious, mean-minded, filled with rage and envyat other's good fortune. There is nothing like the failure of a close friend to cheer us up.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

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

With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

Chinese people become jealous about status more easily. Foreigners are more inclined to look up to successful people. I don't understand why there is a difference. If two people start at the same point and then one person gets ahead, the other should work hard to catch up. But instead, they just curse. They are jealous.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

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

I think it's impossible not to see something you wanted happen to someone else and maybe wish it for yourself.

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

Benign envy can sound a lot like admiration. The difference is that, while admiration feels good, envy is painful.

One thing I learned from my old man is that people are going to be happy for you, but not too happy. When the tables are turned and you're hanging out on top with a guy like Randy Orton, who is in the main event at Wrestlemania, not all the guys are going to like you.

Nothing feels worse than other people's good times.

Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us, on the other hand envy is a fury which cannot endure the happiness of others.