Quotes About Comparison

People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won't be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves. I think at any age or any social class, that's present.

We need to stop thinking the grass is greener on the other side and be happy with the love we have.

I'm glad to have shown myself able to do other things rather than people thinking, 'Oh, he'll just do the same as his dad.' Dad was a brilliant actor, but it just so happened he was five foot five and a half, fat and bald.

As far as self-confidence goes, so much of social media is about approval, getting likes, comparing our lives to others' - meanwhile, confidence is an inside job: it's about how you feel about yourself regardless of what anyone else does or thinks. It's a knowing that you're human, you're flawed, and you're awesome in your own way.

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.

He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.

When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.

Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.

If the Internet has been called a great democratizer, perhaps what social media has done is let anyone enter the beauty pageant. Teens can cover up pimples, whiten teeth, and even airbrush with the swipe of a finger, curating their own image to become prettier, thinner, and hotter.

Israel necessarily has a thinner margin of security than the United States, given differences in size, geography and military capabilities.

President Obama's farewell speech soared, towered, dragged. True, it was longer than Reagan's, Clinton's and GWB's speeches combined. If it got any longer, it would have qualified as a third term.

I did the voice of Cyclops on 'Shrek the Third'. I don't know how I got that. They said they wanted a Michael Chiklis type, and apparently it came down to me and Michael Chiklis, so how they gave it to me, I don't know.

I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less.

I've not met a soul who wants to see The Wanted over One Direction. The thirst for those boys is insane.

A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.

I'm hesitant to compare myself to Roger Federer in any way, but he's improved while he's in his thirties. That makes you believe that even though you may have struggled for a few years, there's still hope.

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

Thirty is still the iconic number. It's when people compare their actual lives with what they think they should have achieved.

I actually thought I wanted to be Thomas Wolfe, but I didn't have the talent. So I thought I could edit Thomas Wolfe.

I am ashamed to say that both my children knew Stalin before they knew Thomas the Tank Engine.

Charles Barkley played in an era where he was never the guy. He always had to take a back seat to Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Isaiah Thomas, because what did they have that he never got? A championship.

Nothing was ever clean enough for my father. You could never clean as good as he could; you could never clean as fast and as thorough as he could.