Quotes about Comparison
There's nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self.
— Ernest Hemingway
For sure, when you are being beaten by your team-mate, it hurts.
— Niki Lauda
We have an idea that we Americans are God's chosen people, that God loves us more than any other people, and that we are God's blessed. I tell you that God doesn't love us any more than He does the Russians.
— Billy Graham
Though Mrs. Fontaine smiled, I couldn't help but wonder if she'd sized me up and found me lacking.
— Beth Hoffman
God's agenda is so glorious, and His love and purposes for our lives are so great, that everything else pales in comparison. We should all be like Nehemiah, who, when the enemies of Israel tried to get him to come out of the city and talk with them on the Plain of Ono, said, "...I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and go down to you?
— Bill Johnson
The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough.
— Ezra Taft Benson
The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it
— DL Moody
The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it
— DL Moody
Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you. Eli to Punchinello (p. 25)
— Max Lucado
In 1900 the average person living in the United States wanted seventy-two different things and considered eighteen of them essential. Today the average person wants five hundred things and considers one hundred of them essential.
— Max Lucado
Don't confuse God's love with the love of people. The love of people often increases with performance and decreases with mistakes. Not so with God's love. He loves you right where you are.
— Max Lucado
God's thoughts are not our thoughts. They are not anything like ours. Our thoughts aren't even in the same neighborhood.
— Max Lucado