If people are trying to pull you down, it is proof that you are above them.

Pulling others down leaves you less time to pull yourself up.

You are not remembered for who you pull down, but who you lift up.

Do not hold grudges against those who try to keep you down; the higher you go, the smaller they become. Do not trust those who try to push you down once you are up;
the more envious they are, the more dangerous they become.

No one tries to stone a tree whose fruit is not ripe.

The riper a tree's fruit, the more stones people cast at it.