Comparing Quotes

“Comparison is the thief of joy.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“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, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide

“Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside.
-Gabe Singleton remembering his counselor's first advice-”
― Michael Palmer

“When you compare yourself with others, you start labeling yourself and others as well. Avoid this practice if you want to have high self-esteem.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“When you begin to walk your own journey, to have your own unique conversation, you will naturally stop feeling envious of others. Not because you’ll realize your desires are different from theirs, but because they are so similar. You’ll discover the difference between doing well and pretending to do well, between being happy and pretending to be happy, between healthy relationships and staged ones. You’ll see just how many obstacles lie on any path. You’ll realize that it takes the same amount of effort to work on building up the quality of the conversations in your life as it does to broadcast to the public, constantly, that those conversations are already perfect. You can either build up the mask or build up the authentic self. And you, brave and beautiful you, will make the right choice eventually. Be it now or on your deathbed. We all realize soon enough.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

“Other people’s lives seem better than yours because you’re comparing their director’s cuts with your behind the scenes.”
― Evan Rauch

“Comparison is the root cause of all evil.
Why compare when no two people are alike?”
― Haresh Sippy

“We all see very clearly in others tendencies which we, ourselves, have overcome. The older and wiser we grow, the more we can see the arrogance of youth. The more authentic we become, the more we can see the lies of insecurity. The more vulnerable we allow ourselves to be, the more we see the dangerous symptoms of unexpressed emotions.

There is no finish line to learning.

There is no point where we're done growing, and all we will ever do is look down upon others who are behind us. No one is ever at the top. We are all growing at our own rates, and no matter how terrible or how enlightened we fancy ourselves to be today, the future will be sure to give us a different perspective.

There is really no use in comparing yourself to others. There will always be someone ahead and someone behind, and there will be dozens (if not hundreds) of different scales and gradients to be behind and ahead on.

To be number one is never final. It is and always will be a momentary, fleeting instant. But to be a growing version of yourself? That, you can be. You can be that every single day.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

“Look in the mirror rather than at your neighbor.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“Despite our human intelligence, we are very much like our friends in the wild; the world we live in is a survival of the fittest. But to this I say, let the fittest survive! Survival is overrated. We’re alive; we die. How long we survive for is of little significance. Our true significance lies not in the endless comparing of ourselves to one another, trying to see who is the fittest, using scales of evaluation and meaning that differ in the heart and mind of every individual; no - it lies in our deeds alone with the time we have.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar

“There is no need for comparison. Be happy with yourself and find satisfaction in your work.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Neither compares nor competes. Be creative.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“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

“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

“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, The Untapped Wonderer In You: dare to do the undone

“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, I Hate Everyone, Except You

“After so many years struggling to keep up with you, I finally realized we’re not even running the same race.”
― Scott Stabile

“Comparing kills fulfillment.”
― Todd Stocker, Becoming The Fulfilled Leader

“Can you carry weight of others on your shoulders?”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Be you. You are sacred.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Guns are like cars: you can trust a good used one better than one that's brand new.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“It's bizarre how we compliment eachother by saying "You look younger than what you are". I mean, can't we just be proud of our age and not constantly at war with a natural phenomenon?”
― Torron-Lee Dewar

“The grass is often no greener on the other side, so stick it out and see if you can grow up within the relationship. Find happiness and emotional independence within yourself before placing unreasonable and often unexpressed expectations on your spouse.”
― Malti Bhojwani, The Mind Spa Ignite Your Inner Life Coach

“Do not compare yourself to anybody!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Six Words Inspiration

“Some comparisons are comparable to comparing apples and oranges’ seeds.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“My most persistent trash talker is Little Miss Perfect Pants. She always chimes in when I’m going to do something hard or new. You don’t know how to run a business—you don’t have an MBA. You’ve never swum across a lake before.
Before I was introduced to her and named her, I accepted these thoughts as truth. I thought I wasn’t good enough. I thought I’d be embarrassed. I allowed those voices to prevent me from feeling confident or taking risks. Over time I realized that she didn’t want me to look stupid or to fail. When I saw that for what it was, I understood this was my own fear about being unprepared. So, I signed up for an open-water swim class. I hired a business coach to help me launch my business. I took the next step to get me where I wanted to be.”
― Darcy Luoma, Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“I- I'm sorry,' I breathed, my voice hoarse.

'What do you possibly have to be sorry for?'

'I didn't know. I didn't know that he'd done that-'

And Rhys thought I'd been comparing him- comparing him against Tamlin, as if I held him to be some paragon...
...
The people he'd loved most- gone. Slaughtered in cold blood. Slaughtered by Tamlin.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“I was always comparing myself to others and scorning those I thought I knew better than. First, I scorned religious people in favor of partying; now I was scorning partiers in favor of prosperity and education. It was not until I met the Christians that I learned how to love others and stop judging them. They taught me where true security comes from. They taught me to be satisfied in God so that I didn’t need to use other people or compare myself to them.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“With all this measuring and comparing of performance, we have entered a never-ending competition.”
― Berend van der Kolk, The Quantified Society

“I might compare them to you. But it might be for the right reasons instead of how you treated me.”
― Dominic Riccitello