Quotes About Comparison

You can take pride in yourself without comparing yourself to anybody else. If you run your race and be the best that you can be, then you can feel good about yourself.

Keep the right perspective Some people would love to have your problems. They would gladly trade places with you. They would love to have the job that frustrates you. They would love to sit in traffic in that car you don't like. They would love to have your husband, who gets on your nerves. They would love to live in the house you think is too small.

Quit comparing your gifts, your looks, your success to someone else. Be you! You are powerful, you are anointed, you are gifted, you are beautiful. Nobody can do you like you can do you.

When we start competing with people, we get distracted, we lose focus, and before long we're wasting time on things that are not moving us toward our purpose.

Know that the "Best Possible You" may not be as successful as your neighbor, but that's okay. The best you may not be as thin as your sister, but that's fine. The best you may not be as talented, as dynamic, or as outgoing as your co-worker, but that's all right, too. Be comfortable with the person God made you to be. You can't get distracted and lose your focus by comparing yourself to others. Run your own race.

I have a friend who puts me to shame in the way he is so romantic with his wife. He plans big weekend getaways with her. He writes beautiful poetry to her. He'll go on for hours about how beautiful she is in their conversations. I want to tell him, "Would you quit doing that? You're making me look bad." But I've learned I'm not Romeo. I'm Joel- eo .

Don't compare yourself. Celebrate yourself.

Si alguna vez estamos inclinados a enorgullecernos de nuestro conocimiento bíblico, debemos abrir cualquier volumen de John Owen, Thomas Goodwin, o Thomas Brooks, observar cómo se cita algún pasaje desconocido de Nahum seguido de un pasaje conocido de Juan —donde ambos ilustran perfectamente el punto que está planteando el escritor—, luego comparar nuestro conocimiento con el de ellos.

Cush of Ezekiel's day sat far more northwest than the Ethiopia of today.

the context of Ezekiel is the best context by which to interpret the area to which Isaiah referred.

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

It must be nice, being perfect, but some of us have to live in this world.

I'm in love with the you I wish you were. I only stay with you because you look like him.

Our love is like. Our love is only like.

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

Jealousy is the great exaggerator.

The more you think life is about having stuff and superiority and showing it off, the more unhappy, and the more depressed and anxious, you will be.

It's always tempting to mistake your personal decline for the decline of the human species

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be

Ich bin nicht nur bei jedem Mädchen, das ich liebte, eifersüchtig gewesen, sondern auch bei jeder andern, wenn sie nur hübsch war.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

America, you have it better than our continent, the old one.

We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.