Quotes About Comparison

Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.

Respect your haters. They're the only ones who think you're better than them.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

I was kind of a little disappointed when they started building a competition between Marty (Martin Scorsese) and me. I have the greatest respect for him and all the films he's done over the years.

I love the Mexican people; I respect the Mexican leaders - but the leaders are much sharper, smarter and more cunning than our [American] leaders.

Islam undoubtedly deserves respect. It has some things in common with Christianity, such as Abraham as a common progenitor, and the belief in only one God.

Many say that (Pete) Sampras is the greatest player. But I say with all due respect to the rest, that he (Roger Federer) is the most complete player in the world so far.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

Why should I take my clothes off (...) when there are, already, so many other woman doing it for me?

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.

When your own romantic life is falling apart, everyone else's looks fabulous.

No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.

It's a small closet."... "It's a walk-in the size of Rhode Island, " he teased... "Isn't that just like a man to exaggerate the size of something?

I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer

Donald, I'm not sure if you're even aware of this, but the only difference between you and Michael Douglas from the movie, Wall Street, is that no one's going to be sad when you get cancer.

Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.

I'm very sad to be compared with Warhol and The Factory, because I have no drugs, you know. We have no drug culture in Japan! Maybe it's because our attitude toward labor is totally different.

Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

And a question stirred within me: What if he, this yellow-eyed creature, in his disorderly, filthy mound of leaves, in his uncomputed life, is happier than we are?

But a thought swarmed in me; what if he, this yellow-eyed being – in his ridiculous, dirty bundle of trees, in his uncalculated life – is happier than us?

It's clear: if there is no good reason for enviousness, the denominator of the fraction of happiness is brought to zero and the fraction is transformed into a glorious infinity.

Isn't it clear that bliss and envy are the numerator and the denominator of the fraction known as happiness?

What if he, this yellow-eyed creature, in his disorderly, filthy mound of leaves, in his uncomputed life, is happier than we are?