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Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness.

Whomever compares him or herself to another, always loses.

It's impossible to compare two bands. It would be like comparing two lovers.

Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.

Comparing yourself to somebody else is like comparing yourself to a bird.

Never underestimate your talents, and try not to compare or wish for the talents of others. Focus on and accept the talents you have, and you will find great fulfillment in life.

If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.

We all have our worries about our bodies and our looks. We just need to make the best of our lovely, wonky selves. The key is never to compare and try to be something you're not.

Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare.

He couldn’t compare a woman to a torrentially beautiful monsoon, and then look surprised that he’d gotten wet.

When you compare Christmas to Hanukkah, there's no comparison. Christmas is great. Hanukkah sucks! First night you get socks. Second night, an eraser, a notebook. It's a Back-to-School holiday!

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.

Now liberals compare their every riot, every traffic blockage, every Starbucks-window-smashing street protest to the civil rights movement -- which was only necessary because of them.

When you compare yourself to others, you miss the miracle of who you are.

Pardon the way that I stare, there's nothing else to compare. The sight of you leaves me weak, there are no words left to speak.

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.

O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!

I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.

Comparing is impoverishing your own experience

It’s useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war.

I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to it. Except maybe having kids.

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

You can never be happy when you're constantly comparing yourself to others. Keep your eyes ahead.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

Compare what you want with what you have, and you'll be unhappy; compare what you deserve with what you have, and you'll be happy.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . .

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are IMPOSSIBLE.

Comparing yourself to others is an act of violence against your authentic self.

Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.

I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare to the two months of joy I get engaging with the people who like my music.

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.

I always compare reading anything on the Internet to listening at doors. If you don't want to hear anything bad about yourself, you should never do it.

In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock.

You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life.

The greatest compliment one can pay a master is to compare him with Capablanca.

When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

Theres such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just cant compare yourself to people in magazines.

There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else.

There is no teaching to compare with example.

Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?

A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before.

With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there.

Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.

Comparing oneself to others in such terms as "Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I," he should neither kill nor cause others to kill.

I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I cant compare hearing aids to normal hearing.

Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest.

There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.

I compare the pressure of a golf shot with making an extra point in basketball. The player starts from a full stop, and that rim doesn't move.