Quotes about Comparison

Pride flees when we compare ourselves to God instead of [to] other people.

Success or failure cannot be measured by any human standard.

Too many times we are concerned with how much, instead of how little, like this [world] we can become.

Envy and greed always—always—exact a terrible price. I have never met an envious or greedy person who was at peace.

Some people seem to put the devil on a par with God. Actually, Satan is a fallen angel.

The Negro is not the man farthest down. The condition of the coloured farmer in the most backward parts of the Southern States of America, even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.

For the Greeks, beauty is truth; for the Hebrews, truth is beauty.

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

But however much that virtue may be praised and cried up, which without true piety is the slave of human glory, it is not at all to be compared even to the feeble beginnings of the virtue of the saints, whose hope is placed in the grace and mercy of the true God.

And I, miserable, believed that more mercy was to be shown to the fruits of the earth than men, for whom they were created.

Now the end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest. For of two things which have alike ceased to be, the one is not better, the other worse—the one greater, the other less.

What is that which gleams through me, and strikes my heart without hurting it; and I shudder and kindle? I shudder, inasmuch as I am unlike it; I kindle, inasmuch as I am like it.