Robert Greene Quotes About Envy

Quotes about: Envy

• Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods and the dead can seem perfect with impunity.

  Robert Greene

  Smart, Order, Perfect

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.16, Profile Books

• When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others

  Robert Greene

  Success, Worry, Envy

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.4, Profile Books

• Be wary of friends—they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.

  Robert Greene

  Envy, Enemy, Loyal

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.9, Profile Books

• Do not envy those who seem to be naturally gifted; it is often a curse, as such types rarely learn the value of diligence and focus, and they pay for this later in life.

  Robert Greene

  Later In Life, Envy, Focus

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.56, Profile Books

• If you're in a subordinate position of some sort and pretty much all of us are at some point in our lives, your general tendency is to try and impress the people above you or person above you so well that they will like you, keep you or maybe promote you. In the process of doing that you are not aware that that person above has insecurities and if you try so hard they may see that you are after their job or that you are better than they are or they might envy the fact you are younger.

  Robert Greene

  Jobs, People, Envy

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

• There is almost a touch of condescension in the act of hiring friends that secretly afflicts them. The injury will come out slowly: A little more honesty, flashes of resentment and envy here and there, and before you know it your friendship fades. The more favors and gifts you supply to revive the friendship, the less gratitude you receive.

  Robert Greene

  Gratitude, Honesty, Envy

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.12, Profile Books

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