black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others – that is too high a price to pay.
ROBERT GREENE

Mindset Pay Peace Price Value Wasted Time
Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life’s artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.
ROBERT GREENE

Art Artist Care Chance Gossip Leaving Life Reputation Work Yourself
Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.
ROBERT GREENE

Fear Himself Kind Person Side Understand
Everybody in life is struggling for power, and some people use morality and righteousness as a weapon, while others use different means, even passive aggression. From a distance, we are all fighting, and I am looking at this from a distance.
ROBERT GREENE

Distance Fight Life Morality Myself Passive Power Right Struggle
Nothing is given to you.
ROBERT GREENE

Effort One Liner Yourself
The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
ROBERT GREENE

Acceptance Life Role World Yourself
The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
ROBERT GREENE

Human Master Power Voice Word
True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
ROBERT GREENE

Control Genius Mindset Presence Strategy Thinking True
If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
ROBERT GREENE

Enemy Way Yourself
Some people are a little bit better than others, some people are great, some people are superior. It depends on the level of effort.
ROBERT GREENE

Better Effort Greatness Level People Superior
A lot of, a big problems that people have nowadays is that they can’t stand moments of no stimulation in their life so they’re constantly lurking, looking for entertainment, video games.
ROBERT GREENE

Big Entertainment Moments Problem Stand
The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human.
ROBERT GREENE

Complain Human Money Obsession Worst Worth Yourself
We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.
ROBERT GREENE

Action Creation Death Ourselves World
You’re not going to be persistent and tenacious enough if you don’t love what you’re doing. If it’s not something that excites you, that appeals to you deep down inside.
ROBERT GREENE

Appeal Enough Excitement Love Persistence Yourself
What’s good for me is certainly not good for other people.
ROBERT GREENE

Goodness Myself People Self Love
If you’re just letting the time pass at your job, it’s just dead time and you’ll never get it back. If at that job you’re learning and you’re observing and you’re seeing about people and connections, it’s suddenly alive time.
ROBERT GREENE

Alive Death Job Observation Time Yourself

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Robert Greene Quotes