Quotes about Comparison

Perhaps we have become self-righteous about our Christian lives because we look at society around us and see flagrant immorality, pervasive dishonesty, wholesale greed, and increasing violence. We see growing acceptance of abortion as a "right" and homosexuality as an acceptable alternate lifestyle. Because we are not guilty of these more gross forms of sin, we can begin to feel rather good about our Christian lives.

Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts. Still I would rather be that beast down there in the darkness of the sea.

Tolstoi made the writing of Stephen Crane on the Civil War seem like the brilliant imagining of a sick boy who had never seen war but had only read the battles and chronicles and seen the Brady

Mansfield was like near-beer. It was better to drink water.

There is nothing noble about being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

The roots of envy always run deeper and wider than the relationship in which it surfaces.

The roots of envy always run deeper and wider than the relationship in which it surfaces.

We have a tendency to measure ourselves against the people around us. They become our point of reference. A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential. …if we are wise enough to listen, they will help us go further, faster.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year, the United States with 150 million people had a gross national product of 300 billion dollars.

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.

Everyone is different. One of the fundamental principles that Yogi Raman taught me was that truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves. Don't race against others. Race against yourself," Julian replied.