Quotes about Comparison

Most people's natural inclination is to judge themselves according to their best qualities while they measure others by their worst. As a result, they point to areas where their teammates need to grow. But the truth is that every person is responsible for his own growth first.

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success

Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

All envy is proportionate to desire.

Goldberg argues that fascism and communism, far from being opposites, are "closely related historical competitors for the same constituents.

I couldn't tell the difference between the books they were talking about and their lives, they were just that cool.

Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors.

The poorest Englishman who understands his Bible knows more about religion than the wisest philosophers of Greece and Rome.

Holy, holy, holy", seems written on every page. To talk of comparing the Bible with other "sacred books" so-called, such as the Koran, the Shasters, or the book of Mormon, is positively absurd. You might as well compare the sun with a rushlight, or Skiddaw with a mole hill, or St. Paul's with an Irish hovel, or the Portland vase with a garden pot, or the Koh-i-noor diamond with a bit of glass.

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren land; long heath, broth furze, any thing.

I expect a perfection in me and a perfection in others that not even God Himself expects. If God is patient with the process, why can't I be?

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. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.