Quotes about Comparison
A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
- Frank Herbert
Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?
- Julian Casablancas
Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.
- Madeleine L'Engle
She felt that she was being measured and found wanting.
- Madeleine L'Engle
how there's very little difference in the size of the tiniest microbe and the greatest galaxy.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Success is not what I've done compared with what others have done. Success is what I've done compared with what God has called me to do.
- Lecrae Moore
Measure your success by the number of people who envy you.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps.
- Andrew Murray
Stand by; for I am holier than you! What a parody on holiness! Jesus the Holy One is the humble One: the holiest will ever be the humblest. There is none holy but God: we have as much of holiness as we have of God.
- Andrew Murray
The master judges by the result, but our Father judges by the effort.
- Andrew Murray
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
- Samuel Johnson
The cankered passion of envy is nothing akin to the silly envy of the ass.L'Estrange,Fab.xxxviii.
- Samuel Johnson