Quotes About Comparison

Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?

The Americans are so much more positive. They are much more in love with success. In Britain, they're a fairly envious bunch, and they love it if you fail.

Jealousy is the loss of joy.

Using someone else's ruler to measure your self-worth will always leave you short.

I do not envy those who live a comfortable life.

Fifty year old wealthy man resents twenty five year old middle class man, without recalling that 25 years back even he was a poor man.

Is the hell we know better than a heaven we don't know?

A lamp cannot play the role of the Sun and the Sun cannot play the role of a lamp.

When I capture my thoughts and compare them to the truth of God's Word, I often find they are false, deceptive, or destructive.

It could be worse. I could be you.

They say "as brave as lion", they say "as clever as fox", they say " as friendly as dog" but nobody says "as something good as man".

There is no good envy, except the one that motivates us to reach higher goals and be better than the person we were yesterday.

When admiring other people's gardens, don't forget to tend to your own flowers.

Stretch yourself a bit to know the difference between humans and heroes.

One person's success is another's first step, only you can rate your achievements and find peace within yourself.

You are all so good and I wish I were better. Now get out of here because I want to be where you are.

Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure.

You see, I, unlike you, have been made a prefect, which means that I, unlike you, have the power to hand out punishments." "Yeah," said Harry, "but you, unlike me, are a git.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.

Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness.

You look at me like I have something to be sad about. My existence makes you grateful you are not me.

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.