60 Quotes About Comparison

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

It's a most peculiar psychology–this business of 'Science is based on faith too, so there! ' Typically this is said by people who claim that faith is a good thing. Then why do they say 'Science is based on faith too! ' in that angry-triumphal tone, rather than as a compliment? And a rather dangerous compliment to give, one would think, from their perspective. If science is based on 'faith', then science is of the same kind as religion–directly comparable. If science is a religion, it is the religion that heals the sick and reveals the secrets of the stars. It would make sense to say, 'The priests of science can blatantly, publicly, verifiably walk on the Moon as a faith-based miracle, and your priests' faith can't do the same.' Are you sure you wish to go there, oh faithist? Perhaps, on further reflection, you would prefer to retract this whole business of 'Science is a religion too! . Eliezer Yudkowsky

Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was happening elsewhere, and what had happened in the past. To view a period in isolation is to miss whatever message it has to offer. Louis LAmour

God is the only one that won't disappoint you. Everyone else is percentages of your peace. Shannon L. Alder

You deserve respect and appreciation. A person who doesn't have respect for themselves will more than likely not give it to you. You have to set the standard for yourself by not allowing the insolence. Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Comparison is waste of energy. Every individual is unique with unique talents. Find your passion and live your best life. Lailah Gifty Akita

Penny was a very pretty, witty and brave girl, as bold as a Marine platoon storming Iwo Jima. John C. Wright

Do not compete with anyone. Seek to exceed your own expectations. Lailah Gifty Akita

Comparison is the death of joy. Mark Twain

Don’t compare yourself with others. You are one of a kind! Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is not a competition. There is enough work for everybody. Find your passion and fulfill it. Lailah Gifty Akita

I want you to promise me that you'll stop comparing yourself to everyone else.' 'What?' I broke off the hug, not understanding. 'You. Evelyn. You're always like, 'I wish I coulld be like this' or 'I wish I could be more like so-and-so'. You're obsessed with being normal, but that's well boring, and you're extraordinary, Evie. Promise me you'll stop trying to stop stop being you'. Holly Bourne

I've spent years living safely to secure a longer life, and look where that's gotten me. I'm at the finish line but I never ran the race. Adam Silvera

Run you own race of life with patient. Lailah Gifty Akita

Comparison is the enemy to creativity. Eyen A. Gardner

Any time we find ourselves relying on the ideas of an absolute, frozen state of right and wrong–or fairness versus unfairness–that we are used to, we can compare the habit to distraction during meditation. Sharon Salzberg

But he saw a rare determination in Haley's eyes. I can trust Haley's judgement, he told himself, even as he remembered how Haley had eaten that cheddar with the mold growing on it two weeks before. Cheese and people are not the same. Kit Alloway

I followed many conversations about what happened in Norway and the death of Amy Winehouse because they happened one after the next. Too many of those conversations tried to conflate the two events, tried to create some kind of hierarchy of tragedy, grief, call, response. There was so much judgment, so much interrogation of grief–how dare we mourn a singer, an entertainer, a girl-woman who struggled with addiction, as if the life of an addict is somehow less worthy a life, as if we are not entitled to mourn unless the tragedy happens to the right kind of people. How dare we mourn a singer when across an ocean seventy-seven people are dead? We are asked these questions as if we only have the capacity to mourn one tragedy at a time, as if we must measure the depth and reach of a tragedy before deciding how to respond, as if compassion and kindness are finite resources we must use sparingly. We cannot put these two tragedies on a chart and connect them with a straight line. We cannot understand these tragedies neatly. Roxane Gay

Lebedev: A time has come of sorrow and sadness for you. Man, my dear friend, is like a samovar. It doesn't always stand on a shelf in the chill but sometimes they put hot coals in it and it goes psh... psh! This comparison is worthless but you won't think up a cleverer one. Anton Chekhov

We’re stars, you know. Different, distant, young and old, but we’re all made of the same stuff. We all shine just as bright as the next. Dannika Dark

The shovel is bigger than the spoon, but it can never ever do the work the spoon does. They both look similar; they both have different sizes but one more thing not to forget is that "they are important in their own roles"! Each is unique! You are unique too. Take the lead! Israelmore Ayivor

All overt and covert emotions would shrivel without the beam of contrast and comparison to supply context and implication. We need the value of counterpoise to recognize and distinguish between similar and dissimilar concepts. How do we identify the importance of hope if we never felt despair? How do we appreciate the value of society and companionship until we experience solitude and loneliness? What would any relationship be unless draped with the boughs of thoughts and feelings, without the ongoing interaction between conscientious action and unreserved devotion, without endless empathy fused with boundless love? In the ring of time, without the verve supplied by both the real and the imaginary, life would be bland, insipid, and lackluster. Kilroy J. Oldster

God never uses one approach to the get his job done in the world. Each soul has its own way of being reached. He has put inside of each of us an unique song, that only another heart can hear clearly. To wish you were someone else robs another human being of the special blessings, talents and gifts God meant for you to share. Shannon L. Alder

Love does not envy, does not boast, does not delight in evil but rejoice in truth. Lailah Gifty Akita

You cannot change someone using fear, degradation, humiliation, or by comparing them to others. It can only be done through love, with love, for love. Suzy Kassem

Like all our memories, we like to take it out once in a while and lay it flat on the kitchen table, the way my wife does with her sewing patterns, where we line up the shape of our life against that which we thought it would be by now. I'll tell you what I don't tell her, that there is something shameful in this, the buoying of our sinking spirits with old stories. Claire Vay Watkins

The position of a hero is not for the comparision, it is a reference point Amit Kalantri

It is only when the mirror has not spoken to Chimpanzee in a plain language that it thinks it looks more better than the Gorilla Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own? Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Charles Francis Adams was singular for mental poise – absence of self-assertion or self-consciousness – the faculty of standing apart without seeming aware that he was alone – a balance of mind and temper that neither challenged nor avoided notice, nor admitted question of superiority or inferiority, of jealousy, of personal motives, from any source, even under great pressure. Henry Adams

He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies. Stephen L. Carter

I don't understand why when I wish for happiness it inevitably rains. However, I do tend to find myself grateful for sunlight once the storm ceases. Richelle E. Goodrich

Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller than his brethren by the breadth of a human fingernail. Jonathan Swift

Most moms and dads think they are either the best or the worst parents in the world. Both are wrong. Kevin DeYoung

Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state of nature; by the things they see they judge of things very different which they have never seen, and they attribute to men a natural inclination to slavery, on account of the patience with which the slaves within their notice carry the yoke; not reflecting that it is with liberty as with innocence and virtue, the value of which is not known but by those who possess them, though the relish for them is lost with the things themselves. I know the charms of your country, said Brasidas to a satrap who was comparing the life of the Spartans with that of the Persepolites; but you can not know the pleasures of mine. JeanJacques Rousseau

Judgment…is one of the ego’s tools to foster separation through comparison. Peter Santos

He was so obsessed by the action in front of him that he had no awareness of the growing reaction to his performance. David Halberstam

The system is religion, the law is spirituality. Take your pick. John Martel

Let us not look at the talents we wish we had or pine away for the gifts that are not ours but instead do the best we can with what we have. B.J. Richardson

Neither compares nor competes. Lailah Gifty Akita

All the problems of the nation are nothing, in comparison to the might of God Sunday Adelaja

If personality expresses itself by acts of discrimination, and discrimination, besides being taboo, has no material to work on, what becomes of personality? It shrinks, it atrophies, it dies. L.P. Hartley

Fighting external monsters is easy in comparison to how we fight those within us. Jeffrey Fry

No one is perfect no matter how hard they pretend they are, so don’t compare yourself to them, ” Will says. If I Wake

Comparison is the most abused intellectual tool of all. We compare men and women, man and God, good and bad, equal and unequal, forgetting that this sin only results in a punishment so severe that we can't even trace it back to its origins. All we're left with in the end is ambiguity, uncertainty, lethargy and and Kafka! Raheel Farooq

Run your own race. Fear creeps in when we compare ourselves too much with others. Sanchita Pandey

Comparisons are odious. Archbishop Boiardo

Some say compared to Bononcini That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle: Strange all this difference should be 'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee! John Byrom

The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower. Pietro Metastasio

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison. Bjork

Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and let us see whether India need blush at the comparison. Annie Besant

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. Milton Friedman