Top 75 Life Comparison Quotes
#1. Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
Mahatma Gandhi
#2. If we truly knew someone's entire life story and all the things they have been through we would drop all jealousy and comparison. We would admire their ability to shine.
Renae A. Sauter
#3. I live in a world where school is in a precarious balance with social life, parties, and sports games. He lives in a world where school is all-consuming, and when his homework isn't, Star Wars and video games are.
Selena Brooks
#4. But if you are alive - live: tomorrow you'll die as I might have died an hour ago. And is it worth tormenting oneself, when one has only a moment of life in comparison with eternity?
Leo Tolstoy
#5. There's nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (210) - Bud Selig "Effort is Everything
Denzel Washington
#6. I would wait ten years if you asked me, Mina." His eyes softened. "I feel like I've waited my whole life for you. A week is nothing in comparison.
Belle Aurora
#7. Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives.
James C. Collins
#8. No one wins when you compare. You don't win. Your family doesn't win. Your friends don't win. You must be in control and not let comparison take hold of your mind. Rather, focus on yourself, your family, and where God has you in your life.
Jessica N. Turner
#9. Compare your life only with the commandments of God.
Be like God. He is the mighty being that dwells in you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#10. You may not understand what all's happening in your life right now, but any possible explanation pales in comparison to what you do know because of your faith in God's goodness and assurance.
Priscilla Shirer
#11. Everything that these folks are saying that they're trying to move away from, like comparison, perfectionism, judgement, and exhaustion as a status symbol - that all describes my life. It was more like a medical researcher studying a disease and figuring out he or she has it.
Brene Brown
#13. When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.
John Calvin
#14. When everything considered valuable in life is seen to be nothing in comparison to the glory of Christ, you learn rather well that Christ alone is worth living for.
Matt Chandler
#15. Practice being gentle, respectful and loving toward the life force in all things. Remind yourself that your efforts do make a difference, even if you think they are miniscule in comparison to the magnitude of the problem.
Wayne Dyer
#16. But, to Shepherd, life seemed to be laid out like a golf course, with a series of beginnings, hazards, and ends, and with a definite summing up - for comparison with others scores - after each hole.
Kurt Vonnegut
#17. The early settlers amazed her
they had pluck, they led lives of sweaty drama. Theirs was a world of corsets and whipping posts and indentured servitude. People worked the land and died in ungainly ways. Modern life, in comparison, seemed a cinch.
Jennifer Vanderbes
#18. The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity,
Saint Augustine
#19. this is what happens to people when they spend their entire life inside books + never come out: real life starts to grate by comparison.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#20. Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.
Patricia Neal
#22. That boy never seemed to smile and he wore long sleeves year-round, and I was not so different from him - we were both unable to get near the real life in life.
Catherine Lacey
#23. My dear Tartini, one's life is so sweet and precious that even honey tastes like salt in comparison!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#24. Why were there some people who seemed so sure of themselves that it made him feel small and ignorant by comparison, as if they had a script to life with all the answers on it? He felt he didn't even know the questions.
Marcus Sedgwick
#25. Resist the short term temptation of procrastination; the immediate pleasure and relief that it brings does not fair in comparison to the long lasting damage it does to your dreams and goals.
Noel DeJesus
#26. There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig
Denzel Washington
#28. What was the power that turned the worm into a moth? It was greater than any power the Builders had had, he was sure of that. The power that ran the city of Ember was feeble by comparison ...
Jeanne DuPrau
#29. Jesus says, "I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look weak by comparison"
Timothy Keller
#30. Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
Jerry Garcia
#31. Does the beauty of life remain alive without making a comparison?
Suman Pokhrel
#32. There's no comparison between the most precious parts of one's personal life and success and wealth. If you lost someone near and dear to you, you can't relate it to any amount of fame, fortune and luxury. You just have to go on living.
Robert Plant
#33. Love does not envy, does not boast, does not delight in evil but rejoice in truth.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#34. If you have an old habit of competing and comparing yourself with others, then you are still living your life like a sperm. GROW UP!!
Saurabh Sharma
#35. I have seen that community and a close relationship with the land can enrich human life beyond all comparison with material wealth or technological sophistication. I have learned that another way is possible.
Helena Norberg-Hodge
#36. Physical constraints pale in comparison to mental ones. Now, repeat after me. We pray to Saint Anthony of Padua that the lost be found. That the soul be free. That life be everlasting.
Rebekah Crane
#37. Do not fall into the terrible trap of thinking that life depends on money and that, in comparison with money, anything else is devoid of value or dignity. This is nothing but an illusion! We cannot take money with us into the life beyond. Money does not bring us happiness.
Pope Francis
#38. I like to say that women are those who form life in their wombs - and this is a comparison I make - they have this charism of giving you things you can build with.
Pope Francis
#40. I think it was the first real pain I ever felt in my life...It wasn't what I thought it would be at all. It didn't put an end to me as a person. I think...it gave me a basis for comparison, finding out you could still exist inside the pain, in SPITE of the pain.
Stephen King
#41. The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.
Eustace Budgell
#42. That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional.
Laurie Colwin
#43. Comparison is the fastest way to take all the fun out of life.
Jen Sincero
#45. Besides, I have no point of comparison," he declared, his eyes still closed. "That is the secret of a happy life.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#46. The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It's enough to convince our hearts that whatever sufferings and sorrow currently assail us aren't worthy of comparison to that which waits over the horizon.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#47. There are worse things to be than a disease," she said, idly thoughtful. "When you have one, it reminds you that you're alive. Makes you fight for what you have. When the disease has run its course, normal healthy life seems wonderful by comparison.
Brandon Sanderson
#48. Life is not a competition.
There is enough work for everybody.
Find your passion and fulfill it.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#49. It is left to each of us to balance contentment regarding what God has allotted to us in life with some divine discontent resulting from what we are in comparison to what we have the power to become.
Neal A. Maxwell
#50. Life wouldn't be easier or not easier. Aren't both generalizations logically impossible? Since there's no correlation, there can be no comparison.
Kobo Abe
#51. Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impractical has become totally acceptable; impracticality almost seems cool.
Chuck Klosterman
#52. His touch seared all the way through to my bones. Each touch after would pale in comparison. For the rest of my life.
Missy Anne
#53. You marvel and applaud big heroes in their big heroic actions, and forget you are a hero in your humble life and have modest heroic actions to complete yourself.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#54. With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placing me in this group of achievers. I compared what Id actually achieved in my life with what I would like to achieve and what other people have achieved, and I found that comparison depressing.
Jared Diamond
#55. It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times
the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie
seem attractive by comparison.
Christopher Lasch
#56. If you will but aspire
You will attain to all that you desire.
Before an atom of such need the Sun
Seems dim and mirky by comparison.
It is life's strength, the wings by which we fly
Beyond the further reaches of the sky.
Farid Al-Din Attar
#57. Process of comparison and condemnation prevents you from observing, studying. So a real student is one who observes everything in life, outwardly as well as inwardly, without comparing, approving, or condemning.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#58. Run your own race. Fear creeps in when we compare ourselves too much with others.
Sanchita Pandey
#59. To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue. The modern world, in comparison, ignores it.
C.S. Lewis
#60. If beauty is relative, then any and everything when compared to the beauty of God is absolutely hideous.
Criss Jami
#61. It's always going to be easy to live like others or other's life, because creating or innovating something of own is always difficult in comparison to buying or borrowing anything from others.
Anuj
#62. The conscious life of the mind is of small importance in comparison with its unconscious life.
Gustave Le Bon
#64. What scientists want next is a thorough comparison of what we and exosolar planets and vagabonds look like. Only in this way will we know whether our home life is normal or whether we live in a dysfunctional solar family.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#65. A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with the other; but nothing is recognized by Christians as virtuous or useful which is not helpful to the future life.
Saint Ambrose
#66. The bridge was geologically ancient, an impassive observer, surrounded by life that was fleeting in comparison: trees that would only survive hundreds of years, tourists who would only live decades, insects that would thrive only for weeks.
Elizabeth Fama
#67. Helping professionals, therapists, life coaches, healers can greatly assist you in changing your life for the better, but they pale in comparison to the power thats gained from developing a relationship with yourself. It's you that holds the power for change
Renae A. Sauter
#68. These dilemmas present perhaps the most enduring conundrum of human history: can people derive their identity primarily by positive association or does life's meaning also require negative comparison to others?
William J. Clinton
#69. Success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.
Myles Munroe
#70. It is only when the mirror has not spoken to Chimpanzee in a plain language that it thinks it looks more better than the Gorilla
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#71. What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And, without the love of Jesus, everything is useless.
Pope John Paul II
#72. The Native Americans know that wolves are mirrors for humans. What they show us are our strengths and weaknesses ... When I lived with the wolves, I was proud of the reflection of myself. But when I came back, I always paled in comparison.
Jodi Picoult
#73. They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
Nellie Bly
#74. Larger-than-life, celebrity leaders who ride in from the outside are negatively correlated with going from good to great. Ten of eleven good-to-great CEOs came from inside the company, whereas the comparison companies tried outside CEOs six times more often.
James C. Collins
#75. Never forget the value of time. You can acquire much in life. By comparison, time is fixed. Use it wisely.
Tim Fargo
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