Quotes about Comparison

A child doesn't say, "What's wrong with this environment where I am growing up?" They think, What's wrong with me?

Love in practice is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

Every time we see a man who has attained our human ideal a little more fully than we have, it wakens our languid blood and fills us with new longings.

You westerners are the ones we can't understand. God has given you so much, you have been so blessed…why are so many people in your country so unhappy?

And Teddy worried lots about The fact that he was rather stout. He thought: "If only I were thin! But how does anyone begin?

If I say, "You are wrong for judging people" then by my own standard I am wrong for judging you.

Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone else's. Their reward is being a cut above the rest. This is the enmity of pride.

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, ? is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old, can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

In our human imagination, we so often perceive our Heroes to be something larger than life. We exalt them in ways that do them a disservice....we convince ourselves that they are or were something essentially different than the rest of us.

All religions are not the same. All religions do not point to God. All religions do not say that all religions are the same. At the heart of every religion is an uncompromising commitment to a particular way of defining who God is or is not and accordingly, of defining life's purpose.