Quotes About Comparison

My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.

No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less

I cannot think of the results of your labors without shame at the little we do.

Maturity gives us jealous eyes. We look with jealousy on the younger woman because she doesn't know as much now as we do, and, oh, what we could do with our wisdom and her face.

And so, as in every other thing, we are always trying to ignore the standard of another, trying to bind the whole world to our standard.

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.

His father, Joshua Wooden, had repeatedly stressed he should never try to be better than someone else, but that he should never cease to try and become the best that he could be.

Coach Wooden preached against comparisons and external rewards, and for focusing on becoming your best.

When the Lord makes it clear you're to follow Him in this new direction, focus fully on Him and refuse to be distracted by comparisons with others.

A lion is a mammal like us; an octopus is put together completely differently, with three hearts, a brain that wraps around its throat, and a covering of slime instead of hair. Even their blood is a different color from ours; it's blue, because copper, not iron, carries its oxygen.

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?

It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many other languages "You" is capitalized and the "i" is lower case." --

That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present.

Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam engine in trousers.

I am glad you like what I said of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry (prison and mental hospital reformer). She is very unpopular with the clergy; examples of living, active virtue disturb our repose and give one to distressing comparisons; we long to burn her alive.

Among the students, the Phantom was often held up as a cautionary figure: Anybody who was too much of a grind or who lacked social graces was warned that he or she was "going to wind up like the Phantom."10 Yet if a new student complained that having him around made him feel uncomfortable, he was immediately warned: "He was a better mathematician than you'll ever be!

I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired.

Sitting here, and thus, she had attained to a state which she could never have desired, not even conceived. And being so unforeseen, so alien to her character and upbringing, her felicity had an absolute perfection; no comparison between the desired and the actual could tear holes in it, no ambition whisper, But this is not quite what you wanted, is it?

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

Jealousy is the manifestation of insecurity and dissatisfaction with one's calling and self-worth.