Quotes About Comparison

I was always certain of your father's love, because when he fell for me I was looking less attractive than a water buffalo

Another lesson to be learned: never underestimate your fellow man. One man's ceiling is another man's floor.

Fifteen years old! Okay, okay. In our part of the world that's not so young.

You see, captain,  here is the truth of the business: some persons are better, others are less.  But it may be nice for you to think otherwise.

I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.

there is almost nothing more common than the belief that one is above average in intelligence, wisdom, honesty, etc.

invidious comparisons of this kind is to stand convicted of bigotry.

There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.

Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada.

I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.

I don't say my golf game is bad but if I grew tomatoes they'd come up sliced.

Baseball it is said is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes or games are created equal.

Although the Knight is generally considered to be on a par with the Bishop in strength, the latter piece is somehat stronger in the majority of cases in which they are opposed to each other.

If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

I learned that strength, like height, is measured by who you're standing next to.

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.

None but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength.

The deepest fear we have, 'the fear beneath all fears, ' is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It's this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life.

Success isn't what you've done compared to others. Success is what you've done compared to what you were made to do.

Success is not what you have done compared to what others have done. Success is what you have done compared to what you were supposed to do.

Success is not measured by what you do compared to what somebody else does. Success is measured by what you do compared to what you are capable of doing.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.