Comparison Quotes

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha

Related topics: Wisdom Values Buddhist Envy Inner-Peace

One of the greatest cause of unhappiness -
perhaps even the only cause of unhappiness - is comparison.
I remember as a young child hearing my mother say,
"Comparisons are odious."
That is one of the oldest sayings in the English language,
and one of the most important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,
but let him work diligently and build one for himself,
thus by example assuring that his own
shall be safe from violence when built.
- Abraham Lincoln

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb

The ego lives by comparisons...
The ego cannot survive without judgment.
- A Course in Miracles

Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus

Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates

The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates

Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes

Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)

The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein

The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu

Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu

The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell

Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb

What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle

What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie