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When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Lao Tzu

Respect, Yourself, Everybody

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen Keller

Great, Men, Majority

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
William Blake

Business, Another, Reason

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
Marquis de Sade

Greatest, Country, Dangerous

I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.
Todd English

Sports, Energy, Often

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

Nothing, Christian, Christ

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Salvador Dali

Woman, Young, Idiot

When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.
Stephen Covey

Home, Positive, Strength

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.
Dorothy Corkville Briggs

Jealousy, Feeling, Another

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
George Eliot

Men, Experience, Rather

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.
Sugar Ray Leonard

Time, Yourself, Nothing

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.
Fred Rogers

Child, Story, Holiday

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
Guru Nanak

Love, God, Cannot

Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.
Sam Houston

Country, Again, Stand

Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.
Homer

Nothing, Friend, While

The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.'
Tiger Woods

Life, Feeling, Winning

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.
Sachin Tendulkar

Else, Anyone, Tried

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Happiness, After, Sweet

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.
Aeschylus

Men, Away, Picture

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.
John Grisham

Change, Great, Serious

And well historically it's never been a good thing to compare yourself to biblical characters.
Daniel Radcliffe

Good, Yourself, Characters

I don't listen to what people say about me and I don't read what they write about me. People can compare me to anyone they want to, but I'm not going to worry about it.
Eric Davis

Worry, Write, Read

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.
Karl Lagerfeld

Work, Difficult, Nobody

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
Ida B. Wells

Before, Act, Press

I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.
Ang Lee

Hope, Down, Give

Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories.
Caroline Rhea

Happy, Yourself, Someone

Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today.
Jimmy Page

Time, Today, America

To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.
Dee Dee Myers

Every night is different, you never know what it's going to be like. I remember every night. I don't like to compare them.
Lenny Kravitz

Night, Different, Remember

The pressure to be pretty? I set, you know, boundaries and goals for myself. I try not to compare myself to anyone else because I will never be anyone else except myself. So I try and stay true to me, and hopefully the right projects will come my way.
Elisha Cuthbert

True, Pretty, Try

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