Quotes About Comparison

In my 20s I used to cry about why I wasn't thinner or prettier, but I want to add that I also used to cry about things like: 'I wish my hair would grow faster. I wish I had different shoes …

That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.

I wanted to be like my friends. I hung out with girls who had blue eyes and blond hair and I thought, "I want to look like them!"

I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?

I have a problem to do a collection that is a secondary line. I mean, you don't want to be the stepsister. You want to be Cinderella. Show me one girl who wants to be the stepsister.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

I definitely have role models. But it's hard to say, "Okay, I want to be Angelina Jolie," or "I want to be Charlize Theron.

Nico [Rosberg] is not seeking the limelight as Lewis [Hamilton] does. Lewis wants to be famous.

If we really knew who God created us to be we would never want to be someone else.

Everybody values their train, but they want to zero-out other people's trains.

Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.

If you ever go bar hopping, who do you want to take with you? You want a slightly uglier version of yourself. Similar ... but slightly uglier.

As a footballer you always want to test yourself against the best.

I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.

We are attracted to people who have traits we want in ourselves, and usually we are unattracted to people with traits that we share.

Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.

Famous people don't want to be told that you have a quality in common with them. It makes them think there's something crawling in their clothes.

Our focus reflects our love and admiration for you. . . . We want you to live lives of spiritual maturity and fulfillment, free of unrealistic comparisons.

Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.

You and I, we have seen all of this before, the manner in which two opposing forces – no matter how disparate their origins, no matter how righteously one begins the conflict – end up becoming virtually identical to each other.

Pure genius. Why didn't I think of that?' The tone began rising once more. 'Why? Because I'm not an idiot!!

It is a fool's curse, to measure oneself in endless dissatisfaction.

such states existed only in comparison