Compliment Quote by Steven Pressfield

The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which…

— Steven Pressfield

“Many critics are born of envy.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Envy is for people who don’t have the self-esteem to be jealous.”

— Bauvard

“Envy is awful. Unlike jealousy, which comes from the threat of losing what you cherish, envy is a dark desire for things over which…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

“Envy is admiration laced with resentment.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Envy is, in a sense, an intentional feeling that paradoxically undermines its own intentionality.”

— Sianne Ngai

“Judgement is so often a thwarted, frustrated expression of envy.”

— Elizabeth Winder

The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.

— Denis Waitley

“The underbelly of envy and jealousy is an unconscious holding back of yourself.”

— Dr. Deb Sandella

The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the…

— Bonnie Friedman

“Envy is when you want what someone else has. Jealousy’s when you also don’t want them to have it.”

— Kirsten Hubbard

“Envy! Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity. Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.”

— John Stott