Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Powerful Comparative quotations
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.
God gave you your own race to run, stop comparing yourself to other people.
They have their race and you have yours. Run hard and don't quit.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
I'm a big skeptic so I won't just go off what an individual may tell me.
I gotta do the research. I'ma get different literature on that one subject and just compare and contrast. I do my own selective studies.
The majority of Western culture came out of Europe, which is not comparable to America. It came out of nation states based on geographical and ethnic foundations. America is based on principles, a very different kind of country.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.
Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on, and makes us active in living righteous lives and doing good. There is no self-confidence to compare with this.
Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit.
Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come.
The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.
The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter;
the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone ever witnessed anything comparable to this? Let the philosopher no longer disdain from listening to the common laborer; the wise, to the simple; the educated, to the illiterate; a child of a prince, to a peasant.
Just think, you're here not by chance, but by God's choosing.
His hand formed you and made you the person you are. He compares you to no one else - You are one of a kind. You lack nothing that His grace can't give you. He has allowed you to be here in this time in history to fulfill His special purpose for this generation.
The older one gets, the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed;
it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of grace
Never be hurried in anything. Do all things calmly and in a spirit of repose. Do not lose your inward peace even if everything seems to be going wrong. What is anything in life compared to peace of soul?
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans;
I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
Success is not measured by what you do compared to what somebody else does.
Success is measured by what you do compared to what you are capable of doing.
Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what they have been through.
Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom.
Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.
According to traditional wisdom in rural France, a baby in the womb should be compared to fruit on the tree. Not all the fruit on the same tree is ripe at the same time...we must accept that some babies need a much longer time than others before they are ready to be born.
The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.
You're going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else.
People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay? All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.
The weird thing about rap is that you don't get compared in the same way that athletes do, even though it's probably the most competitive sport in music. In basketball, they look at a player and say: 'This guy was the best in his prime at this sport.' But in rap it's not until you're dead or retired that people think about it like that.
When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself. When you compare yourself with others in matters of religion, knowledge and virtue, look at people who are better than yourself.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
Making steel may be compared to making a chappati.
To make a good chappati, even a golden pin will not work unless the dough is good
Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.
If you’re comparing the badness of two words and you won’t even say one of them [the n-word], that’s the worse word.
It is here we come to the heart of the matter.
The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may, in return for manufactured commodities, import corn even if it can be grown with less labour than in the country from which it is imported
Dear Lord, forgive me for all of the times I've compared myself to others.
I know that You have hand-picked all of my qualities. Help me to see these things as beautiful reminders of Your great love in creating me as Your daughter. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.
Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains.
No one can compare to Ronaldinho. I remember his plays, his dribbles. I remember him winning every title at the Camp Nou. He made history at Barca, he made history with Brazil and he's still making history.