Comparison Quotes

• What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Adversity, Hard Times

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• Comparison is the thief of joy.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Healing, Feel Good, Joy

  "Becoming a Great School: Harnessing the Powers of Quality Management and Collaborative Leadership". Book by Dr. Kenneth B. Cooper, Nels Gustafson and Joseph G. Salah (p. 9), December 24, 2013.

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• Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.

  Denis Waitley

  Goal, Certain

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• Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Love, Valentine's Day, Measurement

  Gerald G. Jampolsky (2010). “Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition”, p.41, Celestial Arts

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• There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Best Effort

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• Comparisons are odious.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Guidance, Standards

  Miguel de Cervantes (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Miguel de Cervantes (Illustrated)”, p.1518, Delphi Classics

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• Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Money, Business

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.251, Printed for H. Colborn

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• Comparison is the death of joy.

  Mark Twain

  Fitness Motivational, Joy

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• When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

  Sydney J. Harris

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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  To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

  Thomas Paine

  Funny, 4th Of July, Medicine

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• Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning.

  Bob Ross

  Dark, Light, Opposites

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• Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

  Glenn Turner

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space, time point.

  Edward Tufte

  Nature, Law, Differences

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• Why allow all the old memories to have supremacy? Make new ones, memories of such luster and beauty that, should the old ones come back, they would be pallid and impotent in comparison.

  Sherry Thomas

  Memories, Would Be, Supremacy

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• For like to like, the proverb saith.

  Thomas Wyatt

  Henry Howard earl of Surrey, Thomas Wyatt (1816). “The Works”, p.27

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• Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.

  Maimonides

  Greatness, Space, Spheres

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.208, Moses Maimonides

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• Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Broken Heart

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• Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Attitude, Unique

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From I to Q”

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• There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must of felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Hope, Children, Grief

  Alexandre Dumas (2016). “The Count Of Monte Cristo (Illustrated Edition of the Adventure Classic): Historical Thriller from the renowned French writer, known for The Three Musketeers, The Black Tulip, Twenty Years After, La Reine Margot and The Man in the Iron Mask”, p.1463, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

  Voltaire

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth.

  Immanuel Kant

  Flower, Science, Doe

  Immanuel Kant (1900). “Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham”

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• There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.

  Milan Kundera

  Life, Mean, Decision

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• Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

  Max Frisch

  Jealousy

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• Haters are like crickets. Crickets make a lot of noise, you hear it but you can’t see them, then right when you walk by them, they’re quiet.

  Israel Houghton

  Hater, Deep Thought, Noise

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• I value all things as nothing in comparison with having the spirit of God to guide me.

  Heber J. Grant

  Spirit, Guides, Guide Me

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