Quotes About Comparison

People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they might have been.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours.

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches!

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming, and what one has in fact become.

Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame.

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

The sexes in each species of beings . . . are always true equivalents-equals but not identicals.

There is only one way to end a self-pity cycle: stop comparing yourself to others, and simply follow Christ.

A promiscuous person is someone who is getting more sex than you are.

Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.

The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.

Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.)

I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

Superiority is always detested.

All our geese are swans.

The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes.