Facebook share Tweet This Email this
May you find great value in these Comparable quotes and sayings.
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth,
and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
- Thomas Jefferson
Related topics: Nature
Women must pay for everything.
They do get more glory than men for comparable feats,
but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
- Amelia Earhart
Be simply yourself and don't compare or compete.
- Lao Tzu
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
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
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard,"
I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
- Sydney Harris
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
Let everyone try and find that
as a result of daily prayer
he adds something new to his life,
something with which nothing can be compared.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Men have always detested women's gossip
because they suspect the truth:
their measurements are being taken and compared.
- Erica Jong
Do the best you can. Be proud of your accomplishments -
without comparing yourself to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Essentially all suffering is the result of...
1. Comparing what we have (or don't have) today
... with what we had yesterday.
2. Comparing what we fear we might have (or not have) tomorrow)
... with what we have today.
3. Comparing what we have (or don't have) with what others have.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
We fear both the best and the worst in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
In meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere
is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Use what talents you possess.
The woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there,
except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
Luck marches with those who give their very best.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
We all have a social mask, right?
We put it on, we go out, put our
best foot forward, our best image.
But behind that social mask is a personal truth,
what we really, really believe
about who we are and what we're capable of.
- Phil McGraw
Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The best is yet to come.
- Ernest Holmes
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's one of life's great paradoxes ...
Accepting with gratitude whatever life throws at us
is critical to happiness.
Yet without a goal and commitment, life lose much of its value.
The best we can do in the face of this paradox
is to play to win, but be cheerful in defeat
and ready to play again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Thank you for visiting: Wise Quotes about Comparable.
Please sign up on the form below to receive
my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.
All materials & writings are copyright © Jonathan Lockwood Huie, except for quotes and other specifically identified material which belong to their respective copyright holders if applicable.