Ken Kesey Quotes

Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?

No matter what you are, you're a mess." That's what the world tells us. "Every other woman is your competition. You feel bad about yourself and every other woman think she's perfect.

I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.

Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.

Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what.

Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.

I am succeeding because people are talking about how they would do it better.

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

Someday social media might, hopefully in some small measure, wake up to the fact that other people's failures are not your successes.

The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off.

I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.

You could literally be perfect and people would still hate you, for being perfect.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people's choices. If I feel good about my body, I don't go around making fun of other people's weight or appearance. We're hard on each other because we're using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn't mean what you have isn't beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have - no one is ever 100 per cent like, 'Yes, I'm the bomb dot com - from head to toe!'

I want people to feel good about themselves.

I don't like to compare myself with anybody.

Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.

Why can't I be the adorable one?

Women always want to be what they're not: If you're the pretty girl, you want to be the quirky girl. If you're the smart girl, you want to be the pretty girl.

Taking away from someone else will never make you any better.

Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.

I used to take it much more to heart. Now I realise that negativity has almost everything to do with the person delivering it and very little to do with you yourself.