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
If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse. — Michael Craig-Martin
comparing what you see during an eclipse to the darkness at night is like comparing an ocean to a teardrop. — Wendy Mass
Difference is the beginning of synergy. — Stephen Covey
Who you compare yourself to dictates who you become. — Alex Hormozi
Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself. — Unknown Author
I note the obvious differences between each sort and type,
but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike. — Maya Angelou
Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum. — Baal Shem Tov
I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies. — Kurt Vonnegut
See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse. — Seneca The Elder
Don't compare yourself to others you have no idea what their journey is all about. — Dawn Abraham
Short Comparison Quotes
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have no interest in understanding sheep, only eating them. — Thomas Harris
We won't be distracted by comparison if we're captivated with purpose. — Bob Goff
The neighbor’s chicken is a duck. — Bulgarian Proverbs
I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded. — Genevieve Gorder
The neighbor’s chicken appears as a goose to the neighbor. — Turkish Proverbs
The Saudis will make Michael Saylor look like a peanut. — Max Keiser
I’d compare stock pickers to astrologers but I don’t want to bad mouth astrologers. — Eugene Fama
I've paid our guys more than Oscar has paid his guys on his last show. — Dana White
She looks like Wanderlei Silva in a dress and heels. — Dana White
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.
Love Comparison Quotes
I find myself enjoying a deeper love than I ever imagined was possible in the form of my daughter and certainly in the union with my wife. It makes everything else, including work, which is one of the things I'm most passionate about, pale by comparison. — Benjamin Bratt
To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they're blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too. — Victoria Moran
What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And, without the love of Jesus, everything is useless. — Pope John Paul II
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement. — Gerald G. Jampolsky
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement. — Gerald Jampolsky
What are eight million dollars compared to the love of eight million Cubans? — Teofilo Stevenson
Comparison is the thief of joy.
Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make. — Soren Kierkegaard
I just love any place that I can sit in the sun and feel the warmth of the sun's rays, and feel the connection to the planet, really tapping into how small I am and really how insignificant I am in comparison to the universe. — Dean Potter
Personality begins where comparison ends. — Karl Lagerfeld
You cannot let a fear of failure or a fear of comparison or a fear of judgment stop you from doing what’s going to make you great. You cannot succeed without this risk of failure. You cannot have a voice without the risk of criticism and you cannot love without the risk of loss. — Charlie Day
There is simply no comparison between a man who is armed and one who is not. It is simply unreasonable to expect that an armed man should obey one who is unarmed, or that an unarmed man should remain safe and secure when his servants are armed. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good. — Etgar Keret
I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened. — Nancy Mitford
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. — Francis Bacon
Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions. — Sunil Gavaskar
What? You can't knit in the dark? Stuff and nonsense; anybody can. Shut your eyes. Knit one stitch. Open your eyes and look at the stitch; it's all right. Shut your eyes and knit two stitches. Open them. Shut them. Knit three stitches. Falling off a log is no comparison. — Elizabeth Zimmermann
There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world. — Nikolai Gogol
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone. — C. S. Lewis
There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls. — Marilyn Monroe
Contrast 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 closer you come to Jesus, the more faulty you will appear in your own eyes; for your vision will be clearer, and your imperfections will be seen in broad and distinct contrast to His perfect nature. — Ellen G. White
Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning. — Bob Ross
We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live. — Axl Rose
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. — Margaret Mead
The one who’s only tasted sweet cannot describe sourness. — Icelandic Proverbs
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. — Charles Dickens
You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people. — David Lynch
The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives. — Arthur C. Brooks
Bottom line - cosmetics are used to accentuate an existing sex difference in facial contrast. This does not mean that women engage in this beautification practice with knowledge of this sexual dimorphism. — Gad Saad
We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence. — Alfred Wegener
I not only think but also look and study things carefully. When I travel around, I look at things carefully, make comparisons of what I see. I don't accept things at face value, you cannot trust what you hear or see. Don't jump to conclusions without thinking. — Mahathir Mohamad
My business is, with all my might to serve my own generation; in doing so I shall best serve the next generation, should the Lord Jesus tarry... The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping. — George Muller
Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences. — Mikhail Gorbachev
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. — Alexandre Dumas
Success and excellence are not the same. Excellence grows within a person, is largely within that person's control, and its meaning lasts. Success is measured externally, by comparison to others, is often outside our control, and is perishable. — Joe Paterno
Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit. — Gordon Parks
The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand. — David Alfaro Siqueiros
The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens. — Nicolaus Copernicus
Just because Putin is an evil dictator does not mean Ukraine is good. — Vivek Ramaswamy
If bottled water is bad for the environment and isn’t healthier than tap water, does it at least taste better? Probably not, although it’s wholly subjective. Blind tastings have even shown that tap water scores higher than most mineral waters. The wine magazine Decanter ran a famous blinded taste comparison with twenty-four bottled waters in London in 2007 using wine-tasting experts. Good old London tap water came in at third, costing less than 0.1p per litre. The losers included New Zealand bottled water, which ranked a dismal eighteenth place despite coming from an extinct volcano and costing 50,000 times more than tap water. — Tim Spector
Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable. — Louis Sullivan
Notwithstanding the supposed egalitarian ethos of some hunter-gatherer societies, humans are a hierarchical social species. We care greatly about where we stand in comparison to some relevant reference group. — Gad Saad
You'll notice that some of the people who don't achieve success, they always want people smaller than them around them because it makes them feel bigger. — Patrick Bet-David
Don’t compare yourself to others. Focus on your own growth and progress. — Steven Bartlett
Don't compare yourself to others you see around you. Get really clear on who YOU want to be. — Patrick Bet-David
The man shows a pig leg; the woman shows a bottle of wine. — Vietnamese Proverbs
Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives. — James C. Collins
When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art. — Geoffrey Canada
A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement. — Francis Crick
The worth of a child born and bred in Nigeria cannot be compared to that in the United States. — Yakubu Gowon
Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is incomprehensible, even inconceivable. — Stephen Shore
Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous. — Haile Selassie
Social media is designed to make you wish you were someone else, somewhere else, and with someone else. Curate your consumption and eliminate what brings negative emotions. — Sahil Bloom
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. — English Proverbs
Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and create my own image, my own style, my own type of game. Right now I can't even think of one guy I've been compared to. — Paul Pierce
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