Quotes about Comparison
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
— William Faulkner
and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.
— Ezekiel 23:20
A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.
— Norman Geisler
Success is not what you have done compared to what others have done. Success is what you have done compared to what you were supposed to do.
— Tony Evans
You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.
— Psalm 50:21
Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you. Eli to Punchinello (p. 25)
— Max Lucado
There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
— James 4:12
Live creatively, friends. . . . Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don't be impressed with yourself. Don't compare yourself with others" (Galatians 6:1, 4).
— Zig Ziglar
For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you."12
— Dale Carnegie
Pride consists not in wanting to be rich, but in wanting to be richer than your neighbor. It is not in wanting to be noticed but in wanting to be the most noticed. It is not in wanting to have things but in wanting more things than others.
— Billy Graham
how there's very little difference in the size of the tiniest microbe and the greatest galaxy.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.
— Paul David Tripp