151 Comparing Yourself Quotes

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Famous Comparing Yourself Quotes

Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself. — Unknown Author

The problem with comparison is that you always feel either better than someone else or worthless compared to someone else. — Dillon Burroughs

Comparison is an act of violence against the self. - Iyanla Vanzant

Comparison is an act of violence against the self. — Iyanla Vanzant

Who you compare yourself to dictates who you become. — Alex Hormozi

The time you spend comparing yourself to others is much better spent investing in yourself. The only comparison worth making is to you from yesterday. — Sahil Bloom

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else. — Sachin Tendulkar

Don't compare yourself to others you have no idea what their journey is all about. — Dawn Abraham

It’s not comparing yourself with others who call themselves Christians. Compare yourself to the Scripture. — Paul Washer

When you start comparing yourself to another man's mirror, that's when those negative thoughts start creeping in. My journey isn't anybody else's journey. — Arian Foster

Comparison is the thief of joy. — Theodore Roosevelt

I try never to compare myself to other people. I just think this is who I am. You are happier when you think that way. — Jesy Nelson

Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum. — Baal Shem Tov

Stop comparing yourself to other people; you are an original. We are all different and it's okay. — Joyce Meyer

Don’t compare yourself to others. Focus on your own growth and progress. — Steven Bartlett

There are always going to be things you don’t like about yourself or reasons to compare yourself to others, but once you realize that you only get one you, it’s best to just love yourself. — Naya Rivera

Short Comparing Yourself Quotes

  • Don't compare yourself to others you see around you. Get really clear on who YOU want to be. — Patrick Bet-David
  • Stop comparing yourself to people who started ten years before you. Focus on your own journey. — Russell Brunson
  • You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you. — Morgan Freeman
  • Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what they have been through. — Sam Cawthorn
  • Comparison is the death of joy. — Mark Twain
  • Make the most of your life instead of comparing it to everyone else's. — LeCrae
  • When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you. — Lao Tzu
  • Know yourself to improve yourself. — Auguste Comte

Comparing Yourself Image Quotes

Comparing yourself quote Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine wh
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.

Not Comparing Yourself To Others Quotes

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

Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable. — Brenda Ueland

You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities. — Zig Ziglar

Comparing yourself quote Do not underestimate yourself by comparing yourself with others, It's our difference that make us un
Do not underestimate yourself by comparing yourself with others, It's our difference that make us unique and beautiful

Compare yourself not to others, but only to the vision you hold within your heart. Dedicate your life to a cause greater than yourself and watch you get beyond yourself. The very thing that someone told you that you would never be able to do may just be the very thing you are destined to do. — John Frederick Demartini

I'm good at marketing myself through the columns. But compared to other people I know, as far as networking and pushing yourself out there, I'm not very good at that. — Joel Stein

Yoga is about working with what you've got on that day. Some days you may find certain positions easier to get into than others. It's not about comparing yourself or judging yourself, it's about being in that moment and doing your best. — Jayne Middlemiss

Inspirational Quotes

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly - Paulo Coelho

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho

Comparing yourself quote Confidence isn't walking into a room thinking you're better than everyone, it's walking in not havin
Confidence isn't walking into a room thinking you're better than everyone, it's walking in not having to compare yourself to anyone at all.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. — Helen Keller

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds — Paul the Apostle

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams

Comparing yourself quote Don't compare, just create.
Don't compare, just create.

If God is for us, who can be against us? — Paul the Apostle

The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle

Not Comparing Yourself Quotes

Do not compare yourself. Find out what God has placed in your ability. — Emmitt Smith

Take your time, teach what you love, be unabashedly you, and try not to compare yourself to someone who's been teaching longer than you. — Kathryn Budig

You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody. — Natasha Lyonne

Comparing yourself quote Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world... if you do so, you are insulting yourself.
Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world... if you do so, you are insulting yourself.

I think morale is the hardest part, not comparing yourself to someone else. I think everyone compares themselves to someone more successful than they are. Everyone does it. You have to embrace your own rocky path. — Mary Harron

Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best? — Jay-Z

I don't compare myself to Lil Kim. I'm not doing anything in comparison with any girls. I'm doing Nicki Minaj. — Nicki Minaj

Comparing yourself quote Happiness is found when you stop comparing yourself to other people
Happiness is found when you stop comparing yourself to other people

Never never never compare yourself to the beautiful girls. There's always someone gorgeous who will make you feel like you're not. It's a total confidence buster! — Taylor Swift

Good Quotes

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. — Bernard Meltzer

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. — Steven Weinberg

I've had good times and I've had bad times and I reminisce, maybe when I lay down, but throughout my day I keep myself engulfed in whatever moment I'm in because it could steer me into a depressed state. — Kevin Gates

Comparing yourself quote Behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when you bring what is within out i
Behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when you bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.

No matter how successful you become you gotta keep grindin' and be a good person and then good things will come to you. — Meek Mill

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. — Ann Landers

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. — Winston Churchill

Comparing yourself quote Don't compare yourself to others or their work. Just do your thing.
Don't compare yourself to others or their work. Just do your thing.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. — Rene Descartes

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. My teacher was Ferruccio CusinatiMaria Callas

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. - Marcus Aurelius

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius

Comparing Yourself To Others Quotes

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. — LeCrae

The moment you stop comparing yourself to others because it undermines your worth, education and your parent’s wisdom. — Shannon Alder

The surest way to lose sight of who you are is to constantly compare yourself to others. — Tom Krause

Comparing yourself quote The pain that you've been feeling can't compare to the  joy that's coming
The pain that you've been feeling can't compare to the joy that's coming

Before comparing yourself with others, win the battle with yourself. Strive to be better today than yesterday, and better tomorrow than today. — Daisaku Ikeda

You can never be happy when you're constantly comparing yourself to others. Keep your eyes ahead. — Sanaa Lathan

If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. — Max Ehrmann

Comparing yourself quote Dont compare your beginning to someone elses middle.
Dont compare your beginning to someone elses middle.

Comparing yourself to others is an act of violence against your authentic self. — Iyanla Vanzant

Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you. — Eric Thomas

You don't measure your maturity by comparing yourself with others. You judge maturity by comparing yourself to Jesus. — Darrin Patrick

Every flower blooms at a different pace. — Suzy Kassem

Being Compared To Others Quotes

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

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. — Michel Odent

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. — John Green

For what pleasure can compare the pleasure of bringing joy and hope to other hearts. The more we make others happy the greater will be our own happiness and the deeper our sense of having served humanity. — Shoghi Effendi

Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else. — Nathaniel Branden

I don’t want them to compare me to one or the other – I want people to know me for being Griezmann. — Antoine Griezmann

Truly, this vice is never to be compared with any other vice because it surpasses the enormity of all vices.... It defiles everything, stains everything, pollutes everything. And as for itself, it permits nothing pure, nothing clean, nothing other than filth. — Peter Damian

I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might. — Daisaku Ikeda

Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course to be remembered, but diluting their particularity or comparing degrees of evil does no good. — Jeremy Corbyn

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures. Everything is better than some things and worse than others. Which you choose to compare your experiences and situation with determines whether you will be happy and grateful or sad and jealous. — Leon Trotsky

Getting Compared Quotes

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. — Kevin Gates

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 — Marie Curie

To make the best use of your life, you must never forget two truths: First, compared with eternity, life is extremely brief. Second, earth is only a temporary residence. You won't be here long, so don't get too attached. — Rick Warren

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare. — Wendelin Van Draanen

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. — Stanley Kubrick

The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment. Nothing else is significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness. So always strive for that. Set your life around that goal. Don't get caught up in small things, and then it will be yours. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I don't know why you people [the press] like to compare me to Marilyn or that girl, what's her name, Kim Novak. Cleavage, of course, helped me a lot to get where I am. I don't know how they got there. — Jayne Mansfield

If you get vegetables in season, the difference is remarkable compared to vegetables that might have been imported. You can't beat fresh ingredients and seasonal fresh ingredients. There's nothing quite like the taste of a beautiful summer strawberry. — William Katt

Compared to my talents, Whoopi Goldberg is like one of those fake plastic Buddhas you get at dollar stores. I mean really, I fail to see the humor in an overweight negro woman with dreadlocks, no eyebrows, and is named after a childish term for flatulence. — Zach Braff

Some Christians try to go to heaven alone, in solitude; but believers are not compared to bears, or lions, or other animals that wander alone; but those who belong to Christ are sheep in this respect, that they love to get together. Sheep go in flocks, and so do God’s people. — Charles Spurgeon

Being Compared Quotes

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? — Saint Francis de Sales

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. — William Blake

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 — J. R. D. Tata

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 — David Ricardo

A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books. — Plato

It is good to be Compared with the best player [Pele]. But my dad told me about Garrincha's style as he moved forward, went up, attacked and dribbled. Garrincha's style is more similar to Neymar's. — Neymar

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best. — Michael Johnson

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies, and all the things that can be compared unto her. — Solomon

Unfortunately, the general interest in art among the Japanese is very low compared to that of Western countries. I would love to be able to correct that by bringing many more pieces of interesting artwork to Japan. — Yusaku Maezawa

Breathing and using cold, through cold showers and experiences, provides a boost of performance compared to anything that would be possible if the person had not done that. — Wim Hof

Never Compare Quotes

Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come. — Dan Gable

Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring. There is no greater experience in a studio than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the mysterious power of inspiration. To see it animated from inside, and turning into poetry. — Carl Theodor Dreyer

Or to put it another way, why treat four thousand weeks as a very small number, because it’s so tiny compared with infinity, rather than treating it as a huge number, because it’s so many more weeks than if you had never been born? — Oliver Burkeman

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come. — Milan Kundera

I got so strong I felt like a giant.....When I stood on the tee with Arnold and Jack, I was tiny compared to them. But I never believed they were bigger than me. So the mind is so fascinating. — Gary Player

My life is unrecognisable compared to what it was - 'Game of Thrones' has opened doors that were never there before. But it can be dangerous to see it in those terms, I think. It's best to take it as it comes and work as hard as you can, and hopefully the other things fall into place. — Emilia Clarke

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart. — Walter Scott

We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light. — Johannes P. Muller

It has never been in my power to study anything, mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics, economics, the history of science, whist, men and women, wine, metrology, except as a study of semeiotic . — Charles Sanders Peirce

Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty. — John Calvin

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More Comparing Yourself Quotes

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. — Ibn Hazm

School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts. — Ivan Pavlov

Don't compare yourself to anyone. Be happy to be the wonder unique, very special person that you are. — Susan Polis Schutz

Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories. — Caroline Rhea

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. — Lao Tzu

There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special. — Brian Dyson

All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive. — Stedman Graham

No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another. — Vernon Howard

My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater. That always sounds so funny to people, comparing yourself to someone in the past that has done so much, and in your life you’re not even allowed to think that you can do as much. That’s a mentality that suppresses humanity. — Kanye West

Humility begins with seeing who God is, seeing yourself compared to God, and then seeing yourself as God sees you. — Steven J Lawson

Whatever your passion is, keep doing it. Don't waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace. Excel at doing what your passion is and only focus on perfecting it. Eventually people will see what you are great at doing, and if you are truly great, success will come chasing after you. — Suzy Kassem

Beauty is a complex theme, for sure. We all have a different concept and opinion regarding it, but we all like to look at things that are aesthetically pleasing. I had the typical high school experience, where you question what is beauty, and you're comparing yourself to others, it was just part of growing up. — Elle Fanning

Comparing yourself to somebody else is like comparing yourself to a bird. — Willow Smith

You can't really compare people. That's one of the biggest lessons I've learned, because comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are. — Alicia Keys

If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification. — William Bradford Shockley

Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it that is what you compare it to;- something better and you'll feel worse; something worse and you'll feel better. — Thaddeus Golas

Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday. — Jordan Peterson

The action heroes were very cool as a kid. You would compare yourself with them - Jean-Claude Van Damme and Arnold Schwarzenegger. — Sergei Polunin

Spiritual guidance needs guidance. It's like comparing walking on the ground and mountain climbing. Once you learn how to walk, you can walk on the ground by yourself, but if you want to climb Mount Everest, you need a guide. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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