Quotes About Comparison

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.

Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis

Only Napoleon did more than I have done. But I am definitely taller.

Real Madrid would still only be the 120th largest company in Finland (a country with a population of just 5.4 million people, or about the same as Minnesota).

The things we once thought of as luxuries soon become necessities (although, by the same token, our sense of well-being would quickly adapt to losing half our income). What we care about is not our absolute wealth but our rung on the ladder. Ruut Veenhoven, a leading researcher of happiness, says, "When we have overtaken the Joneses, our reference drifts upward to the Smiths, and we feel unhappy again.

The need to bring down to our own wretched level, to deface, to deride and debunk any splendour that is towering above us, is probably the saddest urge of human nature.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

Men," said Suzie. "Why don't you just get them out and measure them?

Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well!

What is this?' 'A Smart Car' It looked like an SUV took a dump and out came the Smart Car

I don't want to end up like my mom. That's my biggest fear in life.

Stop thinking about Michael," Tuck orders. "He was cute." "So is a hairy ferret but I wouldn't want to date one. [...]

What is this?" "A Smart Car." It looks like an SUV took a dump and out came the Smart Car. I wouldn't be surprised if Westford had said it was one of those toy cars that kids drive around.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

He never unbends to Paul completely anyway. I detect just the faintest air of condescension when they're together, the natural conviction of superiority that it seems a man of six foot three can't help feeling over a man just five foot seven and a half.

Never mind jealous people, they gain nothing besides heart break.

When all is said and done our resemblances to the savage are still far more numerous than our differences from him.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

Then the idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone,All centuries but this, and every country but his own.

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

I don't know why you are better and more beautiful than anybody else.

It wasn't until I was living with Violet that I saw how bizarre my life had been with Lucille. Violet's so present, so vital. She grabs me all the time and tells me she loves me. Lucille never said that." Bill stopped talking. "Not once." He looked up from the screwdriver. "For years, day in and day out, I lived with a fictional character, a person I'd invented.