Quotes about Comparison

When we start competing with people, we get distracted, we lose focus, and before long we're wasting time on things that are not moving us toward our purpose.

Know that the "Best Possible You" may not be as successful as your neighbor, but that's okay. The best you may not be as thin as your sister, but that's fine. The best you may not be as talented, as dynamic, or as outgoing as your co-worker, but that's all right, too. Be comfortable with the person God made you to be. You can't get distracted and lose your focus by comparing yourself to others. Run your own race.

Don't compare yourself. Celebrate yourself.

I often wonder whether a frumpy old woman can ever be quite fair in her estimate of a young and lovely one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. "Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel rather small among us big fellows." "I do," retorted Holmes, "I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies."

A girl without freckles is like a night without stars.

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons.

Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king.

One star differeth from another star in glory.

I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

As with the maid, so with her mistress.

A believing slave is better than an idolater, even though ye admire him.