Threatened By Success Quotes

#1. Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

Mary Schmich

#2. There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.

Sandra Bernhard

#3. I wish that I could marshall all the young to an appreciation of the fact that you have an earnest work in life and your amusements and recreations are only to help you along in that work.

Thomas De Witt Talmage

#4. Only those who are aware of God's wrath are amazed by God's grace.

C.J. Mahaney

#5. When I meet somebody in the street who knows about 'Humans of New York,' a lot of times they might have a scripted answer, and that scripted answer is the first thing to come out of their mouth.

Brandon Stanton

#6. Let's face it: There are people who won't be happy when you get too blessed. There are people who feel threatened by your success. There are people who, out of envy, will just not like you anymore.

Bo Sanchez

#7. He wasn't a man who was threatened by a woman's success. He was a man who not only respected it, but was thoroughly turned on by it. Nothing aroused him more than a professional woman with an alpha personality. A woman who was an alpha in business and a sub in bed was beyond sexy.

Suzanne Steele

#8. I'm honestly not jealous of my wife at all - when she succeeds I'm psyched. It never occurred to me to feel threatened by her success. But the one thing I am jealous of is the number of awesome, interesting, artistic, productive, and cool people she gets to hang out with all day.

Christopher Noxon

#9. To send a kiss by messenger.

Idries Shah

#10. I want to let little kids know that no matter what situation they come up in, that they're not exempt from success. All I ever wanted was for people to believe in me and just recognize my potential. I came, I struggled, I made it, I conquered.

Nayvadius Cash

#11. Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.

Lin Yutang

#12. - What are we doing on Earth?

Paulo Coelho

#13. The song is just the given. It's how you cover it that matters.

John Hockenberry

#14. I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it.

Theodore Sturgeon

#15. Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations.

Dean Koontz

#16. When I see something I like, I buy it, but I do not look for it madly.

David Rockefeller

#17. Every time our great Country has been critically challenged either by dictators or terrorists, we as a Country have put aside our personal agendas and focused on doing what we need to do to win when threatened.

George M. Gilbert

#18. Better for sure than Lotto had been. Well, she knew what that was like.

Lauren Groff