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Quotes About Comparison

Compare where you are to where you want to be, and you'll get nowhere
~ Sara Bareilles
A dog doesn't want very much and is happy with that. A cat doesn't know what he wants and wants more of it.
~ Mills Lane
Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess." - Ch. 5
~ Amy Tan
With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them.
~ Nikki Reed
The grandest seduction of all is the myth that DOING EVERYTHING BETTER gets us where we want to be. It gets us somewhere, certainly, but not anywhere worth being
~ Shauna Niequist
General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.
~ Mason Cooley
The extremes of opulence and of want are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious, in [Great Britain] than in any other place that I ever saw.
~ John Quincy Adams
I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.
~ Flip Wilson
When people want to built new tracks, they want to look at Silverstone. We don't want it built like that. It's quite embarrassing.
~ Bernie Ecclestone
I feel like there's a lot of rappers that could out-rap me and I wouldn't want to face any of them.
~ Donald Glover
I don't see myself as legendary. If you want a legend, talk about someone like Duke Kahanamoku.
~ Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz
My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
~ Irving Layton
No matter how good somebody's life looks from the outside, you can be sure there's something about it you wouldn't want to have in your life.
~ Jean Ferris
People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.
~ Ogden Nash
A lady wants to be dressed exactly like everybody else but she gets pretty up- set if she sees anybody else dressed exactly like her.
~ Ogden Nash
When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff.
~ Jermaine Dupri
There are countries that are near ours which are in the situation which we all know. I want to say that this is not the case of Spain now and it will not be in the future.
~ Mariano Rajoy
Every time I hangout with Sandra Bullock I think I want to be her. I want to be married to Jesse James.
~ Ryan Reynolds
Resist the temptation to compare yourself to others. This is crucial in order to be able to manifest whatever you want.
~ Wayne Dyer
But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
~ Alexander Pope
In the story shoes are just a metaphor for what these girls go through...the grass is always greener and everyone always wants to be in somebody else's shoes; they don't want to be in their own.
~ Cameron Diaz
The Garden of Eden presents the same story: If you want to make yourself gods, you'll find you're akin to the animals.
~ Frank Moore Cross
Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise.
~ George Santayana
I'm satisfied with a little while you haters want it all. You waitin' for the spring and I'm gettin' it in the fall.
~ Drake