Quotes about Comparison

I grew up in Tennessee, where no one was really hairy, and with sisters who were so beautiful - my little sister was a pageant girl. But me, I was this weird-looking hairy child. I had more than just a unibrow; I feel like I had a mustache, a goatee.

The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.

Few women would prefer an unemployed and rudderless man to an ambitious and successful one, all other things being even roughly equal; and few men would choose an obese, unattractive, and dull woman over a shapely, beautiful, sharp one.

By comparison with a passionate age, an age without passion gains in scope what is loses in intensity .

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

The deepest fear we have, 'the fear beneath all fears, ' is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It's this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life.

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.

Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do with the ability God gave you.

True success is what you have done compared to what you could have done.

Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.

Keep the right perspective Some people would love to have your problems. They would gladly trade places with you. They would love to have the job that frustrates you. They would love to sit in traffic in that car you don't like. They would love to have your husband, who gets on your nerves. They would love to live in the house you think is too small.

Quit comparing your gifts, your looks, your success to someone else. Be you! You are powerful, you are anointed, you are gifted, you are beautiful. Nobody can do you like you can do you.