Comparison To Others Quotes

“Whatever your passion is, keep doing it. Don't waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace. Excel at doing what your passion is and only focus on perfecting it. Eventually people will see what you are great at doing, and if you are truly great, success will come chasing after you.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“When you feel insecure or like you don’t measure up, remind yourself of how far you’ve come. And in that moment, you’ll realize you’ve climbed mountains and can overcome anything.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“Comparison to others also puts you into an energy and frame of lack and scarcity, and it’s also one of the most toxic money blocks when we compare ourselves based on money.”
― Keisha Blair, Holistic Wealth (Expanded and Updated): 36 Life Lessons to Help You Recover from Disruption, Find Your Life Purpose, and Achieve Financial Freedom

“The tip of the neighbour's iceberg often looks very nice.”
― Roy A. Ngansop

“Better to look broke and debt-free than to look good and in deep debt.”
― Abdul Malik Omar, Ka-Ching! Your Money, Your Life: Financial Guide for Young Adults in Brunei

“Look in the mirror rather than at your neighbor.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“If you wouldn't take on their regrets, don't you dare envy their highlights.”
― Andrena Sawyer

“The so-called scale of "good, better and best" is a social construct, and often it does more harm to the mind's growth, than good. If you love something, you just do it, without thinking about being good, or better, or best. Such expectation-less action gives rise to the most beautiful of results.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Comparison can turn friends into adversaries.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“Better is always subjective. It should rest free of any judgment or comparison. However, it is still attainable for oneself. It should always inspire.”
― Naide P Obiang

“We can all focus on our chapter of life instead of complaining about, and comparing ourselves with, other people who are enjoying their own chapter of life.”
― Olawale Daniel

“Comparison paralyzes progress, both of the mind and the society.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Yes, it's Lila who makes writing difficult. My life forces me to imagine what hers would have been if what happened to me had happened to her, what use she would have made of my luck.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name: 2

“I did this to myself back then, compared my accomplishments at twenty-three to those of spectacularly successful people (Picasso at twenty-three was finishing his Blue Period; Mick Jagger was writing "19th Nervous Breakdown"; Joan of Arc had rescued France, been burned at the stake, and been dead for four years).”
― Tom Barbash, The Dakota Winters

“Unfortunately, the band he was kicked out of was Metallica, which has sold over 180 million albums worldwide. Metallica is considered by many to be one of the greatest rock bands of all time.
And because of this, in a rare intimate interview in 2003, a tearful Mustaine admitted that he couldn’t help but still consider himself a failure. Despite all that he had accomplished, in his mind he would always be the guy who got kicked out of Metallica.
We’re apes. We think we’re all sophisticated with our toaster ovens and designer footwear, but we’re just a bunch of finely ornamented apes. And because we are apes, we instinctually measure ourselves against others and vie for status. The question is not whether we evaluate ourselves against others; rather, the question is by what standard do we measure ourselves?”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Please don't seek fuel for your sorrow by comparing yourself to me.”
― Ezra Claytan Daniels, Upgrade Soul

“Believe me, comparison sucks the creativity and joy right out of life.”
― Brené Brown, Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution.

“Careless of her own life, the princess sought to protect the precious new life first. This is in contrast to her cousins, Princesses Akiko and Noriko, who shoved their imperial guards in front of them." Mariko stops and takes one overexcited breath. Her cheeks are flushed. She is dreamy-eyed. This is what gets her excited. Good to know. "They compare you to the empress after the 1923 earthquake!" The empress rolled up her sleeves and laid bricks for a new school. She refused to leave until the town was fed, the children safe. There is a famous picture of her hugging a mother who lost her son, both of their cheeks coated in dust. "They end with calling you our very own royal."
Words fail me. Mariko seems to know I need a private moment. She places the article in my lap, then glides out the door. When she's gone, I pick it up. I rub my thumb over the last sentence of the article. It's not the royal part that warms me. No, it's the other two words. Very own, it says. Very own. Yes. That's me. A true daughter of Japan.”
― Emiko Jean, Tokyo Ever After

“The only comparison for you to make is with yourself. You are the only person you should outperform.”
― Cristina Imre

“Comparison only exaggerates our insecurities and makes us feel inadequate.”
― Enamul Haque

“One thing that kills a man easily is COMPARISON. Know in your head and heart that you are different from others and not just only in appearance but also in everything. You won't be successful with your peer at the same time, and you won't have the same level of wealth. Accepting this, makes it easy for you to appreciate God and yourself.”
― Ojingiri Hannah

“In an environment of perfect love, comparisons mad no sense.”
― Reed S. Hansen, Ri Conquers the Multiverse

“It’s a new year but you don’t feel like a new you
Maybe instead you’re ruminating on your lows
And beating yourself up for how far you still must go
It’s easy to despair when we measure and compare
But it’s an illusion
It’s trivial, a distraction and meaningless fluff
For who you are now is more than enough
So, instead of thinking about how far you must run
Focus in on how far you have come.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“If we make it believable, everyone will assume that it's a love match between two rivals' children. As the last two week have more than proven, the media loves that Romeo and Juliet shit."
"You're not exactly convincing me with that comparison. Romeo and Juliet both died."
"Semantics. You know I'm right.”
― Katee Robert, Electric Idol

“Aiko strolled down the cobbled street as if the world could crumble around her and she’d just keep going. Scarlett wanted to feel like that, but the game seemed to be constantly working against her, and she imagined it was easy for Aiko, since she was only observing. No one had stolen her sister, or the color from her world.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“Wo du dich komplett verändert hast kümmert dich sicher nicht mehr, wie dich andere sehen. Du ziehst keine Vergleiche mehr zu anderen, bist nicht mehr eifersüchtig und musst nicht mehr prahlen.
Bist du glücklich?”
― Haruko Ichikawa, Land of the Lustrous, Vol. 1

“Humans are known in comparison to humanness.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Consider, for example, how people often criticize themselves in front of others: “I look like a cow in this dress,” “I’m hopelessly inept with computers,” “I have the worst sense of direction of anyone I know!” It’s as if we’re saying, “I’m going to beat you to the punch and criticize myself before you can. I recognize how flawed and imperfect I am so you don’t have to cut me down and tell me what I already know.”
― Kristin Neff, Self Compassion / The Compassionate Mind

“Only by definitions in your head are others better or worse than your you-ness. If you think that your “worth” as a human depends on how well your traits compare to those of others, you will practically always feel insecure and “worthless.” You will be other directed and divorced from what you want to do during your one certain existence.”
― Albert Ellis & Robert A. Harper, A New Guide to Rational Living

“Self justication and judging others go together as justification by grace and serving others go together.”
― Deitrich Bonhoeffer