Comparison Quotes

“She did not raise her eyes from the ground, she did not open her mouth to speak. She was no Medusa, wearing her agony in screaming serpents that uncoiled furiously from her head. Instead, she withdrew to an unreachable corner of her soul.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“Happy people don’t compare themselves with others. If they like something in another person, it inspires them to do something a little different in themselves. They don’t waste energy on jealousy.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“Now it was time to move, and, as a woman gathers her things together, her cloak, her gloves, her opera-glasses, and gets up to go out of the theatre into the street, she rose from the sofa and went to Peter.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Just because a person has a title doesn't make him an aristocrat. Some people are great aristocrats who have no other title than the one that nature has bestowed on them, and others like us, who have nothing but titles, are closer to being pariahs than aristocrats.”
― Osamu dazai, The Setting Sun

“The face of Eisenhower beamed up at me, bald and blank as the face of a foetus in a bottle.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“If you put her in a room with some one, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“As the saying goes, try not to compare your insides to other people's outsides.”
― Emilie Wapnick, How to Be Everything

“Knowledge of writing was as restricted in ancient Sumer as the ability to understand the intricacies of the stock market is today; it was a tool for managing wealth, for proving ownership.”
― Jeremy A. Black, The Literature of Ancient Sumer

“Comparison ruins Happiness. Period.”
― AVIS Viswanathan

“Most comparisons ruin Happiness.”
― AVIS Viswanathan

“Comparison and familiarity - silent destroyers of the human soul.”
― Paddick Van Zyl

“If I sold more apples than you did yesterday, but you sold more today, this says nothing about whether I'm improving as an apple seller.”
― Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

“Every one of us is unique in our own ways, so comparison becomes baseless!”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“You might not know why they are doing whatever they are doing since they have a good reason, different from yours. So better to stop comparing or competing with them and run on your assigned lane”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“It's easy to compare yourself to the people around you, but don't let that stop you from embracing the amazing gifts and talents you possess. Remember: they don't have what YOU'VE got!”
― Felecia Etienne, Overcoming Mediocrity: Limitless Women

“You don't need to compare yourself to anyone else - the only person you need to be better than is the one you were yesterday. So take a step back, choose joy, and focus on improving yourself.”
― Felecia Etienne, Overcoming Mediocrity: Limitless Women

“One thing that kills a man easily is COMPARISON. Know in your head and heart that you are different from others and not just only in appearance but also in everything. You won't be successful with your peer at the same time, and you won't have the same level of wealth. Accepting this, makes it easy for you to appreciate God and yourself.”
― Ojingiri Hannah

“I'm not a scared kitten," Cleo protested, though she wasn't so sure she believed it.
"No?" Deacon tilted his head to study her. A bunny then?"
"I'm not a rabbit."
"Fish?"
"I don't swim."
"Ah!" He snapped his fingers. "You're a leopard gecko!"
"A what?" Cleo frowned. She'd not expected that at all.
"You know, one of those lizards people have as pets. They prefer to stay hidden but can be very loyal and friendly companions once you earn their trust.”
― Jaime Jo Wright, The Vanishing at Castle Moreau

“The cost was the life of the eternal, immortal, invisible God, the One who created everything, made us, and gave us His word to guide us. This was the God we rejected in order to do our own thing, and each go our own way. He who is a trillion times bigger than us entered knowingly into our shoes, although we are a trillion times smaller than a speck of dust in comparison. He made Himself like us, weak, frail, and puny so He could die in our place. He did this to give us hope for our future, an eternal hope that extends even beyond the veil of this life.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“Eventually we learn to live..

Beyond the concepts of
Selections and rejections.
Awards and lacks.
Contentment and disappointments.
Applauds and anonymity.

Comparisons and distinctions too
become outworn in the process.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“In her daydreams, however, she imagined her family alone, with no one around to bother them. it was always the people who were the problem. When it was just the four of them, Ed didn't pick at the way Nam dresses or behaved so often. He didn't constantly compare her to other women, other types of wives.”
― Jung Yun, O Beautiful

“When you have peace & purpose, you don't 'need' escapism

For sure, let your hair down & treat yourself every so often, but never get FOMO

"Missing out" on shallow, superficial, temporary fun, material and things to build, create & provide is never a loss.

Stay focussed!”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“Your life does not need to look like the next person's. Create a world that reflects your particular needs, wants, and mindset.”
― Robin S. Baker

“Her life was as different from mine as chalk from cheese. In a way, it was fascinating to hear about it, but it sounded stultifying to me.”
― Agatha Christie, Endless Night

“I set my bag on top of my thighs and take a look around. There are cameras here and cameras over there as well. There are old cameras and new cameras. Cameras to carry with you. Standing cameras, sitting cameras, cameras riding wheelchairs, yawning cameras, dozing cameras, sleeping cameras, chatting cameras, cracking-up cameras, angry cameras, passionate gaming cameras, music-listening cameras, begging cameras, ignoring cameras, swearing cameras . . . and even a camera on my insides filming me. The cameras don’t know who they are. When one camera shoots another, they too are shot. Cameras that are shot and are shooting each other. Surveilling and being surveilled. Being surveilled and surveilling.”
― Dolki Min, Walking Practice

“It was like saying that a man drowning in beer was better off than one drowning in acid.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

“The woman showed me kindness once, and then I essentially followed her home like a feral cat and forced her to marry me.”
― Katee Robert, Electric Idol

“But there were few occasions where we wished we were Mama's handbag instead of Papa's backpack; extravagance and its toll.”
― Elizabeth Nsenkyire

“Freedom is the scale upon which the political contrivances of men must be weighed.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Whoever this other woman was she couldn't have been classy. You wouldn't catch me dead living in a place like this.”
― Philip Anthony Smith, The Woman He Left Behind