Comparison Quotes - Page 35

• There is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears like not being approved of pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.

  Arianna Huffington

  Baby, Children, Parent

  "Conversation Between Arianna and Her Daughters". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2007.

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  You cannot let a fear of failure or a fear of comparison or a fear of judgment stop you from doing what’s going to make you great. You cannot succeed without this risk of failure. You cannot have a voice without the risk of criticism and you cannot love without the risk of loss.

  Charlie Day

  Loss, Voice, Risk

  “‘Don’t give a sh—‘ and other valuable advice from Charlie Day to grads” by Brenna Ehrlich, www.mtv.com. April 21, 2014.

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• Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.

  John Cheever

  Wisdom, Two, Evil

  1956 Collected in The Journals,'The Late Forties and Fifties'.

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• If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Humility, Way, Sin

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.74, SCM Press

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• What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.

  Edward Kennedy

  Diversity, Pale, Divides

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• Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Kids, Differences, Diversity

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Green Cross International (2011). “Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World”, p.53, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.

  George Orwell

  Long, Mass, Standards

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.299, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

  David Hume

  Passion, Humility, Pride

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.522, Delphi Classics

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• That’s a pretty lame superhero name,” I told him. “Scooby-Doo is already taken,” he said with dignity. “Anything else sounds lame in comparison.

  Patricia Briggs

  Taken, Names, Superhero

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Bone Crossed”, p.112, Penguin

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• Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second.

  Thomas Malthus

  Science, Numbers, Population

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.5, University of Michigan Press

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• The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Jesus, Greatness, Differences

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• Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Stars, Night

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 15, st. 99

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• My business is, with all my might to serve my own generation; in doing so I shall best serve the next generation, should the Lord Jesus tarry... The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping.

  George Muller

  Jesus, Sowing, Generations

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• 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.

  Brené Brown

  Life, Memories, Thinking

  Brené Brown (2013). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.20, Penguin UK

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• Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison

  Jenny Holzer

  Sake, Slipping, Madness

  Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”

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• ...success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.

  Myles Munroe

  Done

  Myles Munroe (2011). “Understanding Your Potential: Discovering the Hidden You”, p.13, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

  Albert Pike

  Men, Discovery, Doubt

  Albert Pike (1932). “Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry”, p.300, Lulu.com

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• We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You got to wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still. The expected's just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Thinking, Expectations, Littles

  "Fictional character: Dr. Meredith Grey". TV Series "Grey's Anatomy" ("Great Expectations", 2007), (2005 - ).

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• The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look, inspect, compare. From inside there is no comparison.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Self, Mind, Different

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2002). “Middlesex: A Novel”, p.303, Macmillan

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• Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

  Douglas Horton

  Happiness, Past, Inner Peace

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• It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.

  Graham Greene

  Men, Discovery, Swings

  Graham Greene (1971). “The Power and the Glory”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• There's this saying: in an all-blue world, colour doesn't exist... If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world is too distant to use as a comparison then nothing seems strange.

  Alex Garland

  Blue, Use, World

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.92, Penguin

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• The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Teacher, Inspiration

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• What really matters for me is ... the more active role of the observer in quantum physics ... According to quantum physics the observer has indeed a new relation to the physical events around him in comparison with the classical observer, who is merely a spectator.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Science, Events, Roles

  Wolfgang Pauli (2008). “Wissenschaftlicher Briefwechsel mit Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg u.a. Band IV, Teil III: 1955–1956. Scientific Correspondence with Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg, a.o. Volume IV, Part III: 1955–1956”, p.148, Springer-Verlag

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• 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

  Love, Life, Religious

  Pope John Paul II (1979). “Pilgrim of Peace: The Homilies and Addresses of His Holiness Pope John Paul II on the Occasion of His Visit to the United States of America”

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