12 Quotes About Comparing

We all like to compare ourselves to others, but often we’re comparing the wrong things. We should be comparing ourselves to our own past achievements and trying to learn from it rather than other people’s experiences. Even if we do compare ourselves to others, we need to remember that we’ll never be as good as them and we must always strive to be better than we were yesterday.

Comparison is the thief of joy.
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Comparison is the thief of joy. Theodore Roosevelt
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All of us are interested in things outside of our stewardships, and we should be, but the most important way to do anything about them is to magnify our own stewardships. When you focus on your own responsibility, you become relatively unconcerned with other peoples stewardships... The highest form of influence is to be a model, not a critic; a light, not a judge. Stephen R. Covey
The problem, as far as I can tell, is that...
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The problem, as far as I can tell, is that women spend infinitely more time than men paying attention to, competing with, worrying about, everyone other than themselves. Clinton Kelly
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Be you. You are sacred. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Comparing ourselves instead of taking lessons from ourselves is not only a catalyst to diminishing our true purpose but also a great ingredient to thinking negative and staying in mediocrity Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Neither compares nor competes. Be creative. Lailah Gifty Akita
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And that is to say, of course, that you can "read" a culture without its literature, without the bother of gathering and holding its ideas, considering their genesis and evolution, and weighing them in the balance with each other. Richard Mitchell
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So many people are able to do something in life, but when they compare what they have done to their larger environment, they feel they have not done anything! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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After so many years struggling to keep up with you, I finally realized we’re not even running the same race. Scott Stabile
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Instead of playing to win, I was playing not to lose. It reminds me of the story I once heard about two friends being chased by a bear, when one turned to the other and said, "I just realized that I don't need to outrun the bear; I only need to outrun you. Sean Covey
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The biggest mistake you can ever make it to compare yourself to others. - Gideon Jacquelyn Frank