Comparison Quotes

"I appreciate that people think that, give me the comparisons to LeBron, but I'm not LeBron. I'm myself."

"Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful."

Bertrand Russell

"Comparison is the thief of joy."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy."

Francis Bacon

"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel."

Steven Furtick

"If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are."

Montesquieu

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."

"When you see how many are ahead of you, think how many are behind."

Seneca

"How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself."

"Never try to be better than someone else, always learn from others. Never cease trying to be the best you can be."

"Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man."

"If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself."

Max Ehrmann

"Slow and steady wins the race."

Aesop

"Nothing is good or bad but by comparison."

Thomas Fuller