Quotes About Comparison

I am as bad as the worst but thank God I am as good as the best.

I see myself as Rhoda not Mary Tyler Moore.

If you know who you are, you do not need to consider yourself to be worse or better than someone else

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

A show of envy is an insult to oneself.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.

Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you.

A leader should never compare his technical skills with his employee's.

Uriah proved to be a better man drunk than David was sober.

There will be people the old flesh will rise up and wonder why God blessed them. But no one will ever be envious on God's blessings on their children.

Where there are no tigers a wildcat is very self-important.

I'm learning Cuban. It's like Spanish, but with fewer words for luxury items.

The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.

If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.

I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare.

What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.

A child in the 4th grade who's just learning algebra is not imperfect. While there may be a child in the 12th grade who's much better, the child who's learning is not imperfect.

Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what they have been through.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

The way I measure my life is 'Am I better than I was last year?'

Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.

I was thinking, we're kind of distant cousins, aren't we, us and the horses. But compared to that thing up there—we're brothers. You know?