You have to come up in the world before it's worthwhile for those worth less to put you down.
Interpretation
Success often leads to jealousy, and those who are insecure may try to undermine you.
This quote by Malcolm Forbes suggests that as you achieve success and rise in life, you may face criticism or negativity from those who feel threatened by your accomplishments. It highlights the idea that some people may not support you until you have reached a certain level of success, reflecting their own insecurities or envy.
In practice
In a motivational speech about achieving personal goals.
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.
Don't grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.
Isn't it interesting that people feel best about themselves right before they go on vacation? They've cleared up all of their to-do piles, closed up transactions, renewed old promises with themselves. My most basic suggestion is that people should do that more than just once a year.
Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.
I always knew I was a writer. And I always thought to myself, 'Well, why not me?' Someone has to be on the best-seller list, 'Why not me?' Someone has to write for the 'New Yorker,' 'Why not me?' And I didn't really get much positive reinforcement as a kid, so I thought, 'Well let me show you what I can do.'
Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.
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