Quotes About Comparison

Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle

I thought Marilyn Monroe was the most beautiful woman in the world and Elizabeth Taylor breathtaking. But when I see myself on the screen I say: 'Oh shoot! What are they talking about?'

In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.

Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.

While beauty made its own rules, it also created its own problems and disappointments.

Oklahoma is very beautiful, and Eric loves beauty, but he already has that in you.

There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus.

Their beauty was to the beauty of Miss Canal Zone as the glory of the Sun was to the glory of a lightning bug.

The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beautiful and a plain woman --a matter of millimetres.

Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it. That's human nature to believe that beauty is everything.

Let us not try to be the best or worst of others, but let us make the effort to be the best of ourselves.

You are not competing with anyone else. You are only competing with yourself to do the best with whatever you have received.

The best thing about London is Paris.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

Every woman has a different metabolism and different genetics, so rather than compete with one another, concentrate on yourself and be the best you can be.

Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.

I don't think Kobe is the best player. I'm the best player.

If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.