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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy. — Francis Bacon

I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin. — Robert Downey Jr.

Comparing yourself to others does nothing for you. Society has conditioned us to value people who fit a secular mold of perfection. — Michele Woolley

He saves his iciest hate for economists. Taleb has no use for the "charlatanic" field, comparing economic research to medieval medicine. — Anonymous

You always envy someone else's life and, as a woman, you're always comparing your life to someone else's life. — Anna Camp

Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides. — Margaret George

There is "what is" only when there is no comparing and to live with "what is" is to be peaceful. — Bruce Lee

Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister. — Carson McCullers

I'm not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler - because George Bush, for one thing, is not as smart as Adolf Hitler. — David Clennon

What if I'd wasted my entire life comparing myself with people who didn't really matter? Try as I might, I still can't wrap my mind around it. — David Sedaris

By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank. — Alec Waugh

I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench. — Sparky Anderson

The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad. — P. J. O'Rourke

One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of the house as the mailbox. — Wendell Berry

Craig said the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone — Stephen Chbosky

Don't underestimate your worth by comparing yourself with others. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is going to be revealed to us. Romans 8:18 — Beth Moore

Neither compares nor competes. Be creative. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Agreement not to discuss. "He never gets tired of comparing one physical artifact to another," Anders went on, "even if they all look pretty — David Weber

I'm scared I'll never stop comparing my life without him to how my life was when I was with him. — Colleen Hoover

Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others. — Thomas More

When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered. — T. S. Eliot

The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get set, go. — Pat Ament

Pretend to give consent to the advice of others, but if you find it suitable,take it. But if out of the right view, despise and cast it away — Michael Bassey Johnson

All the world's a stage," is a metaphor comparing the whole world to a theater stage. — Stephen Davis

To love is to stop comparing. — Bernard Grasset

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

When you stop comparing yourself with others, you begin respecting your own uniqueness. — Vishwas Chavan

Comparing is empoverishing our own experience. There is meaning to our suffering, if we rise above it. — Paulo Coelho

It's hard to stop people comparing their world with the world they imagine you to have. — Carla H. Krueger

Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well. — LaToya London

We're comparing our behind-the-scenes with everybody else's highlight reel. — Steven Furtick

I find myself comparing the feel and smell of brand-new rain to his kiss. His kiss is much, much better. — Colleen Hoover

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

The Left/Right scale is a misleading way of comparing political systems. It doesn't measure anything. — Marshall Fritz

Comparing kills fulfillment. — Todd Stocker

You'll either think yourself worse than someone else, or better than someone else. Neither of these is good. Stop comparing. - Rick Warren — Pat Williams

That's like comparing apples with hermaphroditic ground sloths. — Chuck Klosterman

Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say. — W.G. Sebald

Do not compare yourself to anybody! — Israelmore Ayivor

Why do you compare yourself to others? — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you think by comparing them you're making them inspire, you couldn't be more wrong. — Sarvesh Jain

Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else. — Henry Cloud

It is unnecessary to heighten the glory of day by comparing it with the preceding twilight. — Catharine Maria Sedgwick

It's impossible to compare two bands. It would be like comparing two lovers. — Dave Navarro

When you start comparing with others, you fall into a trap with no way out — Dee Dee Artner

Wanna be happy?
Stop comparing! — Himmilicious

I ended up comparing any girl I was ever with to you. I was never going to find you in any of them was I, AJ? Because there will never be another you. — Jaimie Roberts

Before comparing yourself or your life to others, take a good look at your fingers. — Peprah Boasiako

Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines. — Barbara Walters

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

Comparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it's dangerous when you use it to justify answers. — Martin Fowler

The problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone and because of that, it discredits people ... — Stephen Chbosky

The way the normal human ego tries to fill its emptiness and deal with its discomfort is by comparing itself to other people. All the time. — Timothy Keller

There is no way to devise an objective and non-arbitrary measure for comparing the overall complexity of any two given languages. — Guy Deutscher

Know the other person's viewpoint first and then talk. To Talk after comparing it or mixing it with our viewpoint is an offence. — Dada Bhagwan

She had violated one of the basic tenets of any competent cook: she had purchased a turkey without comparing its size to the size of her oven. — Anna Quindlen

Most people who shop for OSes (if they bother to shop at all) are comparing not the underlying functions but the superficial look and feel. — Anonymous

Learn to adapt like a bird. We can only dream of flying but the bird has already grown her wings. — Debasish Mridha

In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where's his basis for comparing? — Thomas Pynchon

If I am duly compared to Marlon Brando at all, well, I can only think of The Teahouse of the 'Shanghai Noon,' that they're comparing me to that! — Tom Hardy

In Quebec, we're less inhibited artistically, culturally, politically. We're less focused on box office and comparing our films to the American films. — Philippe Falardeau

When people say they hate life, to what are they comparing it to? The alternative isn't any more appealing. — Carroll Bryant

Stop comparing yourself to others and you'll be happy. — Marty Rubin

Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to. — Rebecca Eaton

Comparing how you feel on the inside (bad) to the way someone else looks on the outside (great) is a losing proposition. It's an impossible standard. — Maria Shriver

Comparing is impoverishing your own experience — Paulo Coelho

The conferring and comparing of Scriptures is an excellent means of coming to an acquaintance with the mind and will of God in them. - JOHN OWEN — Joel R. Beeke

Compare yourself to others for inspiration not competition — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Healthier organizations are possible when you stop comparing them with machines and, instead, compare them with communities. — Jurgen Appelo

Testing is the process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous, so as to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous. — James Marcus Bach

Comparing what you see during an eclipse to the darkness at night is like comparing an ocean to a teardrop. — Wendy Mass

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

If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man. — Sonny Bono

Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people. — Kelly Osbourne

One reason we struggle with insecurity: we're comparing our behind-the-scenes to everyone else's highlight reel. - STEVEN FURTICK — Courtney Joseph

Contentment can only be found in not envying others or comparing yourself to them but in being satisfied with what you have. — Larry Herzberg

Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus. — Boy George

Another trap. Never let yourself be tricked into comparing one woman with all others; it rarely turns out well. — Sebastien De Castell

Research knowledge of a complex phenomenon advances by comparing the relative contributions of different models. — Andrew H. Van De Ven

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

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. — John Mulaney

We turn our backs on Latin America, always comparing ourselves instead to Europe. — Isabel Allende

Be such that people get to know of you as you are rather than comparing to others. — Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram

Comparison is the thief of joy. — Theodore Roosevelt

There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent. — Charles Krauthammer

They don't have to struggle like I do - or maybe that's just me comparing my goddamn insides to everyone else's outsides. — Nic Sheff

Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance. — Montel Williams

I find love is more of a bacterium than a virus unless you are comparing it to herpes. — Amanda Mosher

I don't think I'm any competition to the already-existing canon of writers in Kannada. How can I ever even think of comparing myself? — Amish Tripathi

Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out? — Eckhart Tolle

Make the most of your life instead of comparing it to everyone else's. — LeCrae

Comparing oneself to others in such terms as "Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I," he should neither kill nor cause others to kill. — Gautama Buddha

In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also. — Robert Breault

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

There's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist. — Milton Friedman

People most strenuously seek to evaluate performance by comparing themselves to others, not by using absolute standards. — Leon Festinger

If you have an old habit of competing and comparing yourself with others, then you are still living your life like a sperm. GROW UP!! — Saurabh Sharma

It's like comparing apples and oranges; they're both delicious. — Cyd Charisse

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another. — Marquis De Condorcet