Quotes About Comparison

All envy is proportionate to desire.

The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.

Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art are the same thing.

The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow.

However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact extent to which you lag behind him.

Do not compare yourself to others. You have a unique destiny and mission that only you can accomplish.

Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.

That's a pretty lame superhero name," I told him. "Scooby-Doo is already taken," he said with dignity. "Anything else sounds lame in comparison.

It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.

There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the naughtiest of them all?

Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some gods would dream of.

I can cry myself to sleep because I'm not as great as Leonard Cohen, but who cares? Maybe you can't be as great as some people, but it's a tragedy when you don't follow your dreams.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

We're a very success-driven culture, which is such a downer at times. Even if you don't think that way, you're forced to think that way. Everyone is trying to subconsciously out-do everyone else.

Certain gorillas are more evolved than certain human beings I know.

Me and my dad have exactly the same head and nose.

We are better than anyone, ain't we? Except for the Eagles, the Eagles are better than us.

Competition exists everywhere.

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.

I have a learning disability when it comes to languages, I envy actors like Prakash Raj and my kids who do it with such ease.

I don't see that we're any different than many, many people that are out there. And it's hard to kind of accept something like we're larger than life, super-people or something like that.

I am not Laura Kuenssberg and I'm never going to be.