Quotes About Comparison

He made the mistake of imagining that his possessions were a measure of his own worth, and strutted and crowed, parading his things like a schoolboy with a champion catapult.

Tendo a non fare molto caso alle altre persone – l'ho già detto in precedenza, è uno dei miei difetti più gravi – e nelle rare occasioni in cui metto la testa fuori dal guscio e do una bella occhiata, quello che mi colpisce in modo strabiliante non è quanto siano diversi da me, ma quanto siano simili, malgrado tutto.

In His wisdom, He purposely withholds the revelation of His glory to see if we will serve Him with love and reverence, or turn our attention to that which receives glory on the earth yet pales in comparison to Him.

I've always felt that the Catholic Church has the same relationship to God as a fish has to a bicycle.

My great fear when Caden was born was that he would remind me of my brother

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There are two kinds of fool. One says, 'This is old, and therefore good.' And one says, 'This is new, and therefore better.

All you leave behind isn't worthy to be compared with the tiniest portion of that which I am seeking to enjoy.

There are heroes, and there are the rest of us. There comes a time when you just let go the ghost of the better person you might have been.

By almost every account he's a fine young man. I'm simply trying to figure out why I should care that he's three centimeters taller than he was in May.

At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds,"Yes, but I have something he will never have — enough.

Comparing yourself to others is really just a needless distraction. The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday. You do that by focusing on what you can do today to improve and grow.

Average" is the top of the bottom, the best of the worst, the bottom of the top, the worst of the best. Which of these are you?

The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. —HENRY C . L I NK

If we despise the position we have, it may be because of what I call "destination disease," which can also be called the greener grass syndrome. If we focus on being some other place because we think it's better, then we will neither enjoy where we are nor do what we must to succeed. 3.

An attitude that really works against people is the desire for equality that feeds petty jealousy. For

Contentment is not a popular concept. Our culture actually discourages the idea. People are continually bombarded with the message, "What you have isn't enough. You need more—a bigger house, a better car, a larger salary, whiter teeth, sweeter breath, nicer clothes . . ." The list is endless. But the truth is that possessing healthy contentment is essential to being able to withstand failure. —Failing Forward DECIDE TODAY THAT WHAT YOU HAVE IS ENOUGH.

They are committed to excellence. John Johnson in Christian Excellence writes, "Success bases our worth on a comparison with others. Excellence gauges our value by measuring us against our own potential. Success grants its rewards to the few but is the dream of the multitudes. Excellence is available to all living beings but is accepted by the . . . few.

En lugar de compararse con otros, enfóquese en ser lo mejor que pueda ser.

Average" is what failures claim to be when their friends ask them why they are not more successful. "Average" is the top of the bottom, the best of the worst, the bottom of the top, the worst of the top. Which of these are you? "Average" means being run-of-the-mill, mediocre, insignificant, an also-ran, a non-entity. Being "average" is the lazy person's cop-out; it's lacking guts to take a stand in life; it's living by default.

The bottom line is that when you long for the gifts, favor, position, or opportunities of someone else, it distracts you from the gifts, favor, position, and opportunities that God has given YOU.

Most people's natural inclination is to judge themselves according to their best qualities while they measure others by their worst. As a result, they point to areas where their teammates need to grow. But the truth is that every person is responsible for his own growth first.

He might have been compared to a summer's day, particularly the last hours of one.