Quotes About Comparison

If any person desires to think, he must possess memory, imagination and reasoning power; but the Christian has presently lost these powers, hence is unable to think. He cannot create, deduce or recollect, nor can he compare, judge and apprehend. Therefore he cannot think. And should he attempt to do so he experiences a kind of dazed sensation which stifles any productive thought.

My goal is not to be better than anyone else, but to be better than I used to be.

True nobility isn't about being better than someone else. It's about being better than you used to be.

Remind yourself that the fear of failure is very often the fear of someone else's disapproval or ridicule. If you let them have their own opinions, which have nothing to do with you, you can begin to evaluate your behavior in your own, rather than their terms. You'll come to see your abilities not as better or worse, but as simply different from others.

Instead of thinking of anything as being unfair, you can decide what you really want, and then set about devising strategies for attaining it, independent of what anyone else in the world wants or does. The simple facts are that everyone is different, and no amount of your bitching about others having it better than you will bring about any positive self-changes.

Che differenza c'è infatti, fra trent'anni e sei mesi, rispetto all'eternità? La durata di una vita è paragonabile a un puntolino

Eliminate jealousy by recognizing it is a put-down of yourself. By comparing yourself to some other person and imagining you are loved less, you make others more important than you. You are measuring your own merit in comparison to another. Remind yourself that (1) Someone can always choose another without having it be a reflection on you, and (2) whether or not you are chosen by any significant other is not the way you validate your own self-worth.

release your need to be more anything in the eyes of others.

I fell asleep that night thinking about the kiss that might have been. What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn't be like the one I got from Mom or Dad at bedtime. The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure. Like a wolf and a whippet – only science would put them on the same tree.

I knew we weren't rich, but I didn't feel like I was missing anything.

What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn't be like the one I got from Mom and Dad at bedtime. The same species maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure.

All I know is that compared to her, Shelly and Miranda seemed so… ordinary.

One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of the house as the mailbox.

He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.

The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.

It's either the flu or love... The synptoms are the same.

Shermy: Men are better than women! Patty: They are not!! Shermy: Washington was a man! Jefferson was a man! Lincoln was a man! Patty: Your mother is a woman!! Shermy: You got me!

six-story mixed-use building produced more than thirteen times the tax revenue and twelve times the jobs per acre of land than the Walmart on the edge of town.

The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960.

Brilliant? Ha! Your about as bright as a black hole!' Ellen resorted.

If his nose were a tail he would be the perfect image of a sow's rear end.

La bella Antigüedad fue siempre venerable; pero no creo en absoluto que ella sea admirable. Veo a los antiguos, sin doblar las rodillas; son grandes, es cierto, pero hombres como nosotros.

I noticed that the houses in Fort Smith were numbered but it was no city at all compared to Little Rock. I thought then and still think that Fort Smith ought to be in Oklahoma instead of Arkansas...

3 "If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognising my sinfulness at all." —LIFE TOGETHER