Quotes About Comparison

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

Noi facem deosebirea dintre o capr? ?i o oaie; dar oare putem distinge o capr? de o alt? capr? sau o oaie de o alt? oaie?

As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their "right" place.

As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their "right" place.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.

Envy is the coward side of Hate, and all her ways are bleak and desolate.

In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.

Whenever you attempt a good work you will find other men doing the same kind of work, and probably doing it better. Envy them not.

Distinction without a difference.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

It is . . . a melancholy fact that the countries which are most humanitarian, which are most interested in internal improvement, tend to grow weaker compared with the other countries which possess a less altruistic civilization . . 

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

The best is the enemy of the good,

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.

We judge ourselves by what we are capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

If you consider yourself a superior type, or even if you be such, let me tell you that the sum total of such superiority, is socially, a minus quantity." I

But Levin was in love, and so it seemed to him that Kitty was so perfect in every respect that she was a creature far above everything earthly; and that he was a creature so low and so earthly that it could not even be conceived that other people and she herself could regard him as worthy of her.