Quotes About Comparison

He was eight years older than I was, most of the calendar year.

It was hard not to exude the air of a martyr, if one did just slightly more than the other, as it seemed Mickey frequently did.

It is deflating to realize that you are not privileged over the mold in your showerhead.

In marriage as in tennis, one player is inevitably superior to the other.

It was Corinne's secret belief that her daughter was a far finer person than she was herself, a riddle put to her by God. I must become the mother deserving of such a daughter—is that it?

Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too–maybe even yours.

We can get excited by thinking about what all we have or can have, OR we can get discouraged by thinking about what all we don't have.

When they measure themselves with themselves and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding and behave unwisely. 2 CORINTHIANS 10:12

Prayer of Thanks Father, help me to love and appreciate the person You created me to be. I thank You that I don't have to compare myself to others in order to be accepted. You created me with a unique and wonderful purpose. I'm thankful that to You, I am special and beyond compare.

We are not jealous of what anyone else has if we have the same thing. Fear comes when we are afraid we will be left out or have to do without what we want.

En 2 Corintios 10:4-5 queda muy claro que tenemos que conocer la Palabra de Dios lo suficientemente bien como para ser capaces de comparar lo que tenemos en la mente con lo que Dios tiene en Su mente; cualquier pensamiento que intente exaltarse por encima de la Palabra de Dios hemos de aplastarlo y traerlo cautivo a Jesucristo.

For I was envious of the foolish and arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. PSALM 73:3

It's very easy to find fault with ourselves and think we need to be like someone else. Be who you are and don't try to be a copy!

It was a great day of victory for me when I finally realized that God only wanted me to be me, that He had created me with His own hand in my mother's womb, that I was not a mistake, and that I could stand before Him as an individual without needing to compare myself with others. The

Please remember that you don't have to be like someone else to be acceptable. The world's standards are not God's. The world may say you need to be like this person or that person, but God's will is that you be yourself. I

The problem comes when we try to take the gift God has given us and use it to do what someone else is doing instead of developing our own potential.

Amy: I still think that all the time. It's not that I feel like what I'm doing is so amazing, but it's pretty good compared to what other people are doing.

Now that you've had other men to use as a basis for comparison,how do I rate? he teased. That's an adolescent question, Lauren retorted scornfully.

You're rather young, Miss Danner, Mary summarized, her pale blue gaze scraping Lauren's face and figure. I'm aging quickly, Laruen replied. Ignoring the older woman's piercing look, she settled into the secretarial desk opposite Mary's in the large officec.

love at thirteen is nothing like love at eighteen.

I know, deep down, it's not Rachel's fault she's so smart or that she was switched to enriched math. But that doesn't mean I have to like it.

You have to admit it's embarrassing that she's pregnant at thirty-three. And he's eleven years older. I feel sorry for their baby. Think of it—when the baby is our age your mother will be almost fifty and my father will be sixty. They'll be more like grandparents than parents.

How is it that in the Bible it is the Devil and his vessel the Antichrist that are repeatedly referred to as the schemers, liars and the deceivers; but in the Qur'an, it is Allah who is the greatest of all deceivers? Satan knows full well who he is, and as he was inspiring the Qur'an, he couldn't help but brag a little.

Revenge and punishment both imply, "Even if I'd been you, and I'd had your life, I would never have done what you did." And that in turn implies, "I wouldn't have done it, because I'm better than you." But the person who says, "I'm better than you," is taking a serious step in a very dangerous direction. And the person who says, "Even if I'd had your life, I would never have done what you did," is very probably wrong.