Compare famous quotes
05-09-2025
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If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.
-- Anne Bradstreet -
Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides.
-- Anne Lamott -
God Never Compares You To Anyone Else. He Loves You As You Are.
-- Bo Sanchez -
Don’t undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special.
-- Brian Dyson -
There is "what is" only when there is no comparing and to live with "what is" is to be peaceful.
-- Bruce Lee -
Like Tom Dorrance said, ‘It boiled down to one thing: observe, remember, and compare.’ Do something, observe what you did, remember what you did, compare it to what you were doing before, and adjust.
-- Buck Brannaman -
Compare yourself to yourself and say, 'How can I be better? How can I be the real me?
-- Carson Kressley -
There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
-- Charles de Lint -
When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.
-- Cheri Huber -
I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and Im it. Im the electric light.
-- Chubby Checker -
I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.
-- Courteney Cox -
It's like comparing apples and oranges; they're both delicious.
-- Cyd Charisse -
I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.
-- Daisaku Ikeda -
I'm not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler - because George Bush, for one thing, is not as smart as Adolf Hitler.
-- David Clennon -
One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.
-- David Douglass -
To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.
-- Dee Dee Myers -
I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.
-- Elaine Stritch -
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?
-- Elizabeth Bibesco -
I think a lot of people compare their insides to other people’s outsides.
-- Emma Stone -
Do not compare yourself. Find out what God has placed in your ability.
-- Emmitt Smith -
Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.
-- Eric Thomas -
I’d compare stock pickers to astrologers but I don’t want to bad mouth astrologers.
-- Eugene Fama -
Rien ne se peut comparer a'Â Â Paris. Nothing can compare to Paris.
-- Eustache Deschamps -
The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
-- Fidel Castro -
There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
-- Fidel Castro -
The heart feels, the head compares.
-- François-René de Chateaubriand -
There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.
-- Gloria Gaynor -
I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?
-- Grace Hopper -
People like to compare something to something that they know. Even with Chris Rock, they say he's like Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy.
-- Hannibal Buress -
Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.
-- Homer -
It's hard to really compare new love and old love.
-- Hugh Hefner -
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
-- Ida B. Wells -
School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts.
-- Ivan Pavlov -
Comparing yourself to others is an act of violence against your authentic self.
-- Iyanla Vanzant -
I'm not good at comparing and contrasting. I take what's in front of me for what it is, although I guess there's something about Paul's realistic writing that is like Cassavetes.
-- John Cassavetes -
For my part, I can compare her (a gossip) to nothing but the sun; for, like him, she knows no rest, nor ever sets in one place but to rise in another.
-- John Dryden -
Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.
-- John F. Kennedy -
We oft question and compare.... Is the journey so important or the getting there?
-- John McLeod -
If you’re comparing the badness of two words and you won’t even say one of them [the n-word], that’s the worse word.
-- John Mulaney -
Stop comparing yourself to other people; you are an original. We are all different and it's okay.
-- Joyce Meyer -
Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.
-- Kelly Osbourne -
People most strenuously seek to evaluate performance by comparing themselves to others, not by using absolute standards.
-- Leon Festinger -
Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
-- Leon Trotsky -
The only thing I've experienced that could compare to the launch in terms of raw power was the Loma Prieta earthquake.
-- Loren Acton -
Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
-- Louis Aragon -
There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.
-- Lynn Abbey -
All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.
-- Lynn Margulis -
I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.
-- Marcus Brigstocke -
It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.
-- Martha Graham -
The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.
-- Max Weber -
Well, being a Canadian, I love SCTV, and I think it's the basis for all good North American comedy, so I compare everything to that.
-- Melissa Auf der Maur -
Black women have been cultured to compare not connect.
-- Michaela Angela Davis -
The only one you can accurately compare yourself to is you!
-- Mike Mentzer -
There's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist.
-- Milton Friedman -
Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance.
-- Montel Williams -
Don't belong to anything. Don't belong to anyone. Just Be. Feel your Being first and foremost, and don't compare or compete. Just Be your Being.
-- Mooji -
We have been forgiven so much that nothing we forgive compares to the amount we have been forgiven.
-- Nicky Gumbel -
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
-- Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet -
We are bred to compare ourselves to the next person, to what they have and what they have accomplished.
-- Niecy Nash -
People are going to make comparisons and they can do that but I'm definitely not going to compare myself to Derek Jeter.
-- Nomar Garciaparra -
If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
-- Olivier Martinez -
Comparing is impoverishing your own experience
-- Paulo Coelho -
Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.
-- Peter L. Berger -
What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin.
-- Robert Downey, Jr. -
There is no teaching to compare with example.
-- Robert Powell -
I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.
-- Sachin Tendulkar -
How could any of us truly appreciate our lives if we had nothing else to compare them to?
-- Sara Shepard -
We really shouldnt be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.
-- Shirley Williams -
Craig said the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone
-- Stephen Chbosky -
We're comparing our behind-the-scenes with everybody else's highlight reel.
-- Steven Furtick -
You cannot change someone using fear, degradation, humiliation, or by comparing them to others. It can only be done through love, with love, for love. Love.
-- Suzy Kassem -
If someone had asked, "How does this compare to kissing Kennedy?" I would have answered, "Who?
-- Tammara Webber -
There is no other dog that can compare to a Corgi. They're the epitome of beauty.
-- Tasha Tudor -
I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.
-- Taylor Swift -
How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.
-- Tim Roth -
The surest way to lose sight of who you are is to constantly compare yourself to others.
-- Tom Krause -
Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better.
-- Tom Robbins -
Well, it's great that critics are comparing me to Eminem, and not Vanilla Ice.
-- Uncle Kracker -
Don’t compare yourself to others. That’s when you start to lose confidence in yourself.
-- Will Smith -
Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.
-- William Gurnall -
Is there any excitement to compare with the opening of a fresh parcel of books?
-- William Targ -
Comparing yourself to somebody else is like comparing yourself to a bird.
-- Willow Smith -
There's nothing like having a great friends when you see them, you get that joy - that you can't really compare it with anything else.
-- Zooey Deschanel -
Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.
-- Dimitar Sasselov -
When everybody compares me to Mario Lemieux, it's an honor.
-- Evgeni Malkin -
Consumers view of you is not about how they compare you to other banks. It's about how they compare you to all of the other businesses they experience.
-- Jim Gilmore -
Those who have high business acumen display specific, identifiable cognitive skills that permit them to perform better than their peers. Once we understand that street smarts is skill-based, we can measure it, compare it, and improve it in the general population.
-- Justin Menkes -
You get comparisons with anything in life. I think that if you [are] taking the time out to compare me to somebody, then I must be doing something right.
-- Kirko Bangz -
People feel the need to compare because that's how they're going to put it in some box. We're always putting things in boxes to know what it is and how to describe it.
-- Louis Hofmann -
I often compare singing to lovemaking because there's so many similarities.
-- Rene Marie -
But you can not compare Yao's stats to mine. You just can't compare it and I am playing everyone one-on-one.
-- Shaquille O'Neal -
Rather than compare yourself to others, compare your present progress with your potential.
-- William Cranch Bond -
It's just that only now are women coming around, and when someone as striking as Alanis or Sheryl Crow comes out, the public just needs something to compare it to.
-- Meredith Brooks -
I've got to bring it 'cause they're going to compare me to that Taylor [Lautner] kid, and if I don't bring it, I'm just going to get crushed.
-- Michael Trevino -
I think, however, that Astaire's coordination is better than Kelly's... his sense of rhythm is uncanny. Kelly, on the other hand, is the stronger of the two. When he lifts you, he lifts you!... To sum it up, I'd say they were the two greatest dancing personalities who were ever on screen. But it's like comparing apples and oranges. They're both delicious.
-- Cyd Charisse
