We pay a heavy price for constantly comparing ourselves with others

• Comparison is an act of violence against the self. Iyanla Vanzant
• Comparison is crazy-making. It stamps on potential and truth and all the good things you might already have going for you if you weren’t so busy shadow-boxing with the people who you think have it better. Danielle LaPorte
• Comparison is your death trap. It is the beginning point, and middle point, and ending point, of most defeat or failure, for it holds you in that position of negative emotion, which holds you in that place of negative attraction. And you simply cannot offer enough action to compensate for that. You just cannot. Abraham-Hicks
• Comparison leads to violence. Mandy Patinkin
• If you’re always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else’s performance is what motivates you, then that person is in control of you. Wayne Dyer
• Nothing will kill what you’ve been called to do more than comparing yourself to someone else. Beth Moore
• The more social comparison you do, the more likely you are to be affected by it, and the direction of such effects tends to be negative. Barry Schwartz
• The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel. Steve Furtick

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Comparison is the thief of joy

• Compare what you want with what you have, and you’ll be unhappy. Evan Esar
• Comparison is the death of joy. Mark Twain
• Comparison is the death of true self-contentment. John Powell
• Comparison with something that is better is the thief of joy. Theodore Roosevelt
• Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past. Douglas Horton
• 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. Jack Canfield
• If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind. Jon Foreman
• Social comparison that leads to unhappiness is the downside of social media. Michelle Glen
• The death of contentment is comparison. Steven Furtick
• The research shows that the happier the person, the less attention she pays to how others around her are doing. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• You can’t be envious and happy at the same time. People who pay too much attention to social comparisons find themselves chronically vulnerable, threatened, and insecure. Sonja Lyubomirsky

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Constant comparison with others is like an emotional cancer

• Avoid the four emotional cancers: criticizing, complaining, comparing, and competing. Stephen Covey
• From the very beginning you are being told to compare yourself with others. This is the greatest disease; it is like a cancer that goes on destroying your very soul because each individual is unique, and comparison is not possible. I am just myself and you are just yourself. There is nobody else in the world you can be compared with. Rajneesh

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Comparing yourself with others brings envy and jealousy

• Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself.  If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune.  Envy no one, and you need envy no one.  William Hazlitt
• Comparison is a slippery slop to envy and for the most part, envy wastes energy that could be put towards getting what you want or optimizing what you have. Danielle LaPorte
• Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself. Baz Luhrmann
• Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man’s self; and where there is no comparison, no envy. Francis Bacon
• Jealousy is comparison. And we have been taught to compare, we have been conditioned to compare, always compare. Somebody else has a better house, somebody else has a more beautiful body, somebody else has more money, somebody else has a more charismatic personality. Compare, go on comparing yourself with everybody else you pass by, and great jealousy will be the outcome; it is the by-product of the conditioning for comparison. Rajneesh
• Jealousy is the fear of comparison. Max Frisch
• The jealous man lives in hell. Drop comparing and jealousy disappears, meanness disappears, phoniness disappears. But you can drop it only if you start growing your inner treasures; there is no other way. Rajneesh
• The more social comparison you do, the more likely you are to be affected by it, and the direction of such effects tends to be negative. Barry Schwartz
• The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel. Steve Furtick
• The research shows that the happier the person, the less attention she pays to how others around her are doing. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires. Dorothy Corkille Briggs
• To overcome jealousy, stop comparing yourself with others
• Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides. Margaret George
• You always envy someone else’s life and, as a woman, you’re always comparing your life to someone else’s life. Anna Camp
• You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars. Gary Allan

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Let go of the need to compare

• When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. Lao Tzu
• In form, you are and will always be inferior to some, superior to others. In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self- esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. Eckhart Tolle
• Don’t compare yourself to others but be inspired by them. Leo Babauta
• There is no need to compare because everyone is different. Your goal is not to be like others but to be yourself. Stop comparing with others and focus on being yourself instead. Celestine Chua
• If you can look at yourself without condemning what you see, without comparing yourself with somebody else, without wishing to be more beautiful or more virtuous; or you can just observe what you are and move with it, then you will find that it is possible to go infinitely far. Then there is no end to the journey, and that is the mystery, the beauty of it. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another. Marquis de Condorcet
• Don’t underestimate your worth by comparing yourself with others. Jaachynma N.E. Agu
• Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.
• Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is about.
• Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world…if you do so, you are insulting yourself. Bill Gates