“Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.”

“Keep silence and do not always be comparing yourself with others.”

Poemen (340–450) Egyptian monk and desert father

“You do it to yourself, you do,
And that's why it really hurts,
Is you do it to yourself, just you,
You and no-one else,
You do it to yourself.”

Thom Yorke (1968) English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter

“Do yourself what you wish others to do.”

Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher

“If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.”

Max Ehrmann (1872–1945) American writer, poet, and attorney

“Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.”

Agatha Christie book The Labours of Hercules

“You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

“Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.”

Stephen Sondheim (1930) American composer and lyricist

“What you do not use yourself, do not give to others. For example, advice.”

Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) Indian writer and guru

“And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays