Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.
Don’t compare your path with anybody else’s. Your path is unique to you.
Comparison is painful. Don't be cowed by other people's pretty pictures. When you feel unimpressive, or irrelevant, that has nothing to do with what you're actually capable of.
Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.
It is harmful to compare yourself to others. Others will do that for you.
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.
...success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.
Comparing how you feel on the inside (bad) to the way someone else looks on the outside (great) is a losing proposition. It's an impossible standard.
Someone else's success does not equal a failure for you.
Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impractical has become totally acceptable; impracticality almost seems cool.
To be honest, I never compare myself with the rookies.
Don't compare yourself to anybody. I did that a lot when I was younger. I was so insecure about my butt.
Someone else's success is not your failure.
Like many people, I think I'm my own worst critic. And I think I take a lot out in an internally abusive way, looking at how I measure up, which usually was never enough. I never, never was as good as someone else.
When you are developing something, you have to look at it individually. You can't compare and contrast it to the projects around it, because that way madness lies.
You can never be happy when you're constantly comparing yourself to others. Keep your eyes ahead.
With social media, people share mostly their best moments. Don't feel like you're not doing enough when you see a mom posting about making applesauce after you bought it. Ha ha! It's fine! Just for raising a little human being, you should be commended.
Make the most of your life instead of comparing it to everyone else's.
You can't run your career on the basis of what someone else does.
If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy. ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego.
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.
There will always be someone with a cuter girl, a bigger car, a bigger home, but that does not matter. You measure your own performance by your own potential. That's what makes a successful person.
It's when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a bummer. I just constantly try to put things into perspective.
We can get distracted in arguing which of the two alternatives is better when either are far better than the situation we have today.
Never worry about what anyone else is doing...Just swim your own race.
