Top 448 Comparing Quotes & Sayings

That's like comparing apples with hermaphroditic ground sloths.

God is also fully aware that the people you think are perfect are not. And yet we spend so much time and energy comparing ourselves to others-usually comparing our weaknesses to their strengths. This drives us to create expectations for ourselves that are impossible to meet. As a result, we never celebrate our good efforts because they seem to be less than what someone else does

More than comparing with somebody else, I'd prefer comparing my own work from film to film.

There is "what is" only when there is no comparing and to live with "what is" is to be peaceful.

It's definitely hard to live up to expectation. Especially early in my career, everyone was expecting so much from me, everyone was comparing me to my father. They didn't understand that they're comparing me to a world champion, which is very unfair as a novice.

Comparing Bollywood and Hollywood is like comparing America's market, roads and economy to ours.

I don't like comparing people or teams.

Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.

Stop comparing yourself to other people; you are an original. We are all different and it's okay.

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

I don't think it's fair comparing Barcelona's style with that of Roma.

Comparing what the Democrats offer to what the Republicans offer is like comparing the money I have in my pocket to what Bill Gates has in his.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.

Make the most of your life instead of comparing it to everyone else's.

With Instagram and Twitter, you're constantly looking at other people and comparing yourself to them, and it's just not beneficial. There is always going to be someone skinnier or prettier or with better skin, and that same girl you're looking at is comparing herself to someone else.

You don't need to bow down to peer pressure or be comparing yourself.

I don't believe in comparing myself with anyone else, as that leads to hatred and jealousy.

What's the problem that people have here in Spain with Maradona and Messi? They spend the whole day comparing them.

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

You don't become a saint by comparing yourself to a sinner.

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

Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the Apollo 11 mission.

Comparing Jesus with history's greatest of human leaders is like comparing the sun to a flashlight with no batteries.

Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.

Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus.

Comparing is impoverishing your own experience

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

I've been lucky to have played a lot of women, over the years, especially in the sci-fi genre. All of them are special to me, in different ways, and I hate comparing them because it's like comparing people. They're different.

By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank.

You don't measure your maturity by comparing yourself with others. You judge maturity by comparing yourself to Jesus.

Comparing yourself to the people like you, comparing yourself to the people who aren't like you, looking at how many records you've sold, looking at the venue size you're selling out. None of that can even remotely measure how happy you are.

You start comparing people, and ultimately, somebody feels diminished.

One of the things that I've worked my way out of doing, and I knew that I needed to, was comparing myself to other people. That just poisins everything. It all of a sudden dtermines even clothes you're going to choose to wear that day or what you're going to do with a music production or how you're going to sequence it. It poisinseverything. Your real job in the world is to be you. Comparing yourself to other people I think that hurt me more than anything. Allowing myself to go there so much in my head hurt me.

You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities.

Testing is the process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous, so as to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous.

I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin.

I'm no slouch, but when comparing LeBron's game, I'm usually left out.

Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.

People keep comparing me to Virat Kohli.

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

I don't think I have to combat Airbnb. It is like comparing Tiffany to a shop that sells things for one dollar.

Comparing President Obama with the great leaders who have come before him is painful.

I feel like my biggest competition is myself. A lot of kids get caught up in the comparing game - comparing themselves with Michael Jackson, comparing themselves with Michael Jordan. You gotta be your best. You gotta overcome your own fears.

Our problem is that we make the mistake of comparing ourselves to other people. You are not inferior or superior to any human being...You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities. You are 'number one' when you do the best you can with what you have.

Most of the time, comparing printed song lyrics with poems is like comparing recipes with food: that's to say, patently unfair.

To love is to stop comparing.

People judge their capabilities partly by comparing their performances with those of others

We're comparing our behind-the-scenes with everybody else's highlight reel.

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides.

I have got calls from people who are comparing me to Rajinikanth.

You know you're in love when you stop comparing.

I might find that I have a habit of being jealous and comparing myself with other people and riveting my attention on how much somebody else is accomplishing or doing, or how much better they are at such and such. First, I might recognize the story - the mental images and internal dialogue - and say, "Okay, comparing mind." Then, rather than staying caught in the content, I'll bring my attention into my body and open to the immediate feelings that are there.

Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

comparing what you see during an eclipse to the darkness at night is like comparing an ocean to a teardrop.

Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster.

Judgment comes from you comparing yourself to other people, and expectations of what you think life should be.

The media is all over this Oui interview that Arnold did 25 years ago. Now, he's admitted he smoked pot, had group sex and didn't mind dating a girl that was out of shape and kind of fat if she satisfied him sexually. So, his handlers have stopped comparing him to Reagan and started comparing him to Clinton.

Well, it's great that critics are comparing me to Eminem, and not Vanilla Ice.