Quotes About Comparison

Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. Albert Einstein.

There was no bombing of the U.S. mainland, no civilian casualties, no destruction of millions of homes. Indeed, while the standard of living plummeted for the vast majority of Britons during the war, many if not most Americans lived better than ever before.

Poland lost about 20 percent of its population, compared to 11 percent for the Soviet Union, 7 percent for Germany, and less than 1 percent for both the United States and Britain.

More people died in Warsaw alone during the war than did Americans in both European and Pacific combat theaters

Maybe the grass is greener on the other side depends who was standing in it. Sometimes you have to go over there and look.

She was thinking that the grass really could be greener on the other side of the fence. It depended on who wa standing in the grass. Maybe you had to go take a look

Before we even sit up in bed, before our feet touch the floor, we're already inadequate, already behind, already losing, already lacking something. And by the time we go to bed at night, our minds race with a litany of what we didn't get, or didn't get done, that day. We go to sleep burdened by those thoughts and wake up to that reverie of lack.

Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.

Have you ever seen An American Werewolf in London ? Well, I'm not American. I'm not a werewolf, and this isn't London.

I expect a perfection in me and a perfection in others that not even God Himself expects. If God is patient with the process, why can't I be?

Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don't be impressed with yourself. Don't compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.

Labels start out as little threads of self dissatisfaction but ultimately weave together into a straightjacket of self-condemnation

We all desperately want something that we see the Lord giving to other women. We see Him blessing them in the very areas He's withholding from us. And while these other women may not be obnoxious like Peninnah in their reminders of their blessing and our lack, it's increasingly painful each time we see a reminder. We look at them, and we feel set aside.

The spotlight never fixes our insecurities. It only magnifies what we thought popularity would cover up.

comparison steals celebration. And a life void of celebration is a life empty.

My body size is not tied to my happy. If my happy was missing when I was larger, it will still be missing when I get smaller.

If I look at my dreams, desires, and hopes for the future as coming from a place of scarcity and the world's limited supply, it will constantly feed the notion that someone else's success is a threat to mine.

We get empty when we park our minds on comparison thoughts and wallow in them.

Just because you…achieve what you always thought would make you feel special does not fix that deep-down internal insecurity. External achievement never equals internal acceptance.

The only guy I have to get better than is who I am right now.

I'll stick with gin. Champagne is just ginger ale that knows somebody.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

Enjoyment is always greatest when you have enough contrast to measure it by.

The French also have far lower rates of obesity than Americans do, despite the fact that their diet is higher in fat.