Quotes about Comparison

The devil's one object is so to depress God's people that he can go to the man of the world and say: There are God's people. Do you want to be like that?

Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too—maybe even yours.

Many dinosaurs were smaller than chickens.

In my love-challenged condition, seeing a difficulty for someone else can leave me feeling a little more smug or superior-by-comparison.

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

I think some people who say they're not Christians can behave in a more godly fashion than people who call themselves Christians.

God has given different gifts for different people. There is no basis for feeling inferior to another who has a different gift. Once it is realised that we shall be judged by the gift we have received, rather than the gift we have not, one is completely delivered from a false sense of inferiority.

Weak men in high positions surround themselves with little men, in order that they may seem great by comparison.

This is a very imperfect analogy, because the nature of a thing is not a core but a principle.

You are not the worst girl in the city of New York; the worst girl in the city of New York says that she is the best girl in the city of New York." She did not understand the paradox.