"Comparison is the thief of joy...." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

“I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community.”

“It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.”

“Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference.”

“On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.”

“Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidentsof life, its outer trappings. The great, enduring realities are love of service.Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall forman invincible host against difficulty.”

“My aim is to spread more smiles than tears.”

“There's nothing that says you have to succeed in the same way as someone else. In fact, there's nothing that says you must define success in the same way as someone else.”

“Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with the ancients, or eventhe Elizabethan men. But what is that to the purpose? A living dog is better than a dead lion. Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.”

“The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.”