These incomparable quotes will inspire you. Incomparable without an equal in quality or extent; matchless or unable to be compared; totally different.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging incomparable quotes, incomparable sayings, and incomparable proverbs.
Famous Incomparable Quotes
- “Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.” ~ Brenda Ueland
- “Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.” ~ Rajneesh
- “The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.” ~ Charles Baudelaire
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“The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.” ~ Gerry Spence
- “I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.” ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
- “It’s amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.” ~ M. H. Abrams
- “There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.” ~ Doris Humphrey
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“The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.” ~ Baron de Montesquieu
- “Comparison is a very foolish attitude because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears.” ~ Rajneesh
- “I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it – yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don’t give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.” ~ Orson Welles
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“I would like to thank the incomparable William H. Macy for taking a chunky 22-year-old with a bad perm and glasses out into a cow pasture and kissing me and making me his wife.” ~ Felicity Huffman
- “Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how little time we take to remark upon this singular and gratifying fact. By the most astounding stroke of luck an infinitesimal portion of all the matter in the universe came together to create you and for the tiniest moment in the great span of eternity you have the incomparable privilege to exist.” ~ Bill Bryson
- “QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman’s name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
- “Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being.” ~ Rajneesh
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“Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself.” ~ Santiago Ramon y Cajal
- “Two identical things do not exist at all, so there is no need to be ‘somebody.’ You just be yourself, and suddenly you are unique, incomparable. That’s why I say that this is a paradox: those who search fail, and those who don’t bother, suddenly attain.” ~ Rajneesh
- “Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “And from this marvellous pan-Hellenic expedition, triumphant, brilliant in every way, celebrated on all sides, glorified incomparable, we emerged: the great new Hellenic world.” ~ C.P. Cavafy
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“Pure love is an incomparable, potent power for good. Righteous love is the foundation of a successful marriage.” ~ Richard G. Scott
- “I can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it – but I can never be on the inside of it with you. I cannot even be sure whether I really know what it is like. Is it ‘like’ my own? Or incomparable? Just as I can never know if what you see at any given moment is exactly the same as what I see. We look at a colour. We both call it red. But it is only because we have been taught to call it by that name. There is no guarantee – not ever – that we see it in the same way, that your red is my red.” ~ André Brink
- “What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire, all its poetry and all its charity, to the unexpected as it comes along, to the stranger as he passes.” ~ Charles Baudelaire
- “When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.” ~ Hermann Hesse
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“I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature” ~ Coco Chanel
- “Nobody else even approaches the trumpet like [Sweets Edison] does: Never too much and always plenty. He’s the greatest trumpet player to play along with singers. He exactly knows how to play with you, how to answer you about what you just sang … On top of that, he has some great sense of humor, both as a musician and as a man. Every time I see him, I’m laughing so much. Sweets is impeccable and incomparable.” ~ Ella Fitzgerald
- “She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.” ~ Alice Walker
- “Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.” ~ Cassandra Clare
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“Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?” ~ Ellen Hopkins
- “When did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person who lives inside your skin?” ~ Ellen Hopkins
- “Avoid connecting yourself with characters whose good and bad sides are unmixed and have not fermented together; they resemble vials of vinegar and oil; or palletts set with colors; they are either excellent at home and insufferable abroad, or intolerable within doors and excellent in public; they are unfit for friendship, merely because their stamina, their ingredients of character are too single, too much apart; let them be finely ground up with each other, and they are incomparable.” ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
- “We, however, want to become those we are–human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense–while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics–our honesty!” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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“All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.” ~ Paul Valery
- “This incomparable Author having at length been prevailed upon to appear in public, has in this Treatise given a most notable instance of the extent of the powers of the Mind; and has at once shown what are the Principles of Natural Philosophy, and so far derived from them their consequences, that he seems to have exhausted his Argument, and left little to be done by those that shall succeed him.a” ~ Edmond Halley
- “Heartbroken and in tears over the shocking death of my friend, the incomparable Ms. Whitney Houston. My heartfelt condolences to Whitney’s family and to all her millions of fans throughout the world. She will never be forgotten as one of the greatest voices to ever grace the earth.” ~ Mariah Carey
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“Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- “On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up moments of the mind like the chant of a broken record: god is dead, god is dead. going, going, going. and the pure bliss of this, the erotic rocking of the coach. France splits open like a ripe fig in the mind; we are raping the land, we are not stopping.” ~ Sylvia Plath
- “Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “One of George Washington’s main concerns was to make sure that his soldiers had adequate supplies of meat: A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days. Naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their suffering to a general mutiny and dispersion.” ~ George Washington
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“We think of God as too much like what we are. Learn to acknowledge the full majesty of your incomparable God and Savior.” ~ J. I. Packer
- “To do science today is to experience a dimension unique in contemporary working lives; the work promises something incomparable: the sense of living both personally and historically. That is why science now draws to itself all kinds of people – charlatans, mediocrities, geniuses – everyone who wants to touch the flame, feel alive to the time.” ~ Vivian Gornick
- “Few people on earth know Peter Drucker and his work better than Bruce Rosenstein. This is a welcome, unique and very personal addition to Drucker’s incomparable legacy.” ~ Bob Buford
- “My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night’s delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- “You are lovable. Can you show me any baby in any nursery who isn’t priceless? No. There’s no such thing as a worthless newborn. And the essential value that was born into brand-new-baby you can never be extinguished. This means that even if you think you’re being absolutely honest, believing yourself to be anything other than astonishing, incomparable, and infinitely precious makes you a habitual liar.” ~ Martha Beck
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“… what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?” ~ George Sand
- “I’ve visited the future and I’ve seen the Heavenly City standing upon this Earth!-Beautiful, gorgeous, incomparable, almost indescribable, the most gorgeous sight you’ll ever want to see! A beautiful pyramid-shaped City like the ancient Egyptian pyramids, only much more beautiful!-That Golden City like crystal gold, pyramid-shaped, 1500 miles wide! Think of it! And 1500 miles high!” ~ David Berg
- “Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve—a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind.” ~ Morgan Freeman
- “All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have strange defects to be contemptible. But it has such, so that nothing is more ridiculous. How great it is in its nature! How vile it is in its defects! But what is this thought? How foolish it is!” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “One of the things I find fascinating about God’s creation is the way he seems to temper the negative environmental elements with corresponding positive ones. For instance, without the nearly ceaseless rains of the northwest, no incomparable green scenery would greet the eye from all directions. And the snow that snuggles atop Mt. Hood, Mt. Rainier, and Mt. St. Helens would not exist if, at lower elevations, there were no rain. . . . God’s creative style ensures that something wonderful will offset something less than wonderful. In everything God seems to be balanced.” ~ Marilyn Meberg
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“I say that the God who created the world in six days and who sent His son, and also his son himself, are not God, but that God is the one existing, incomparable good, the beginning of everything.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
- “… the whole design of the gospel is to lead us onward and upward to greater achievement, even, eventually, to godhood. This great possibility was enunciated by the Prophet Joseph Smith in the King Follet sermon. It is this grand and incomparable concept: As God now is, man may become!” ~ Gordon B. Hinckley
- “The man of Self-realization knows a bliss that cannot be compared to anything in this world. His joy is independent of any object or sensory experience. It is an incomparable happiness that cannot be described in words. Such joy is known as sattvik-ananda.” ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
- “The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.” ~ Mike Birbiglia
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“To attain to the human form must always be a source of joy. And then to undergo continuous transitions, with only the infinite to look forward to: what incomparable bliss is that!” ~ Laozi
- “The Commonwealth of Learning is not at this time without Master-Builders, whose mighty Designs, in advancing the Sciences, will leave lasting Monuments to the Admiration of Posterity; But every one must not hope to be a Boyle, or a Sydenham; and in an Age that produces such Masters, as the Great-Huygenius, and the incomparable Mr. Newton, with some other of that Strain; ’tis Ambition enough to be employed as an Under-Labourer in clearing Ground a little, and removing some of the Rubbish, that lies in the way to Knowledge.” ~ John Locke
- “Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood.” ~ Ginger Rogers
- “There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled —- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- “For the little that one has reflected on the origin of our knowledge, it is easy to perceive that we can acquire it only by means of comparison. That which is absolutely incomparable is wholly incomprehensible. God is the only example that we could give here. He cannot be comprehended, because he cannot be compared. But all which is susceptible of comparison, everything that we can perceive by different aspects, all that we can consider relatively, can always be judged according to our knowledge.” ~ Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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“A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long, comedy is played by an incomparable actor.” ~ Champfleury
- “The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself or some one else, as he chooses. […] The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. […] What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire…to the unexpected as it comes along, the stranger as he passes.” ~ Charles Baudelaire
- “The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing… there are times when the simple dignity of movement can fulfill the function of a volume of words. There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself. This is the dancer’s justification for being, and his reason for searching further for deeper aspects of his art.” ~ Doris Humphrey
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“Just see how much respect God has paid to you. You are a masterpiece – unrepeatable, incomparable, utterly unique.” ~ Rajneesh
- “Like all people, we perceive the version of reality that our culture communicates. Like others having or living in more than one culture, we get multiple, often opposing messages. The coming together of two self-consistent but habitually incomparable frames of reference causes un choque, a cultural collision.” ~ Gloria E. Anzaldúa
- “HOW do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, so WHY push to attain an ideal state of being that no two random people will agree is WHERE you want to be? Faultless. Finished. Incomparable. People can never be these, and anyway, WHEN did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person WHO lives inside your skin? The outside belongs to others. Only you should decide for you – WHAT is perfect.” ~ Ellen Hopkins
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“Perhaps he’s in love with Agatha,” she said. “I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.” ~ Cassandra Clare
- “I suspect he’s sweet on Sophie and doesn’t like to see her work too hard.’ Tessa was glad to hear it. She’d felt awful about her reaction to Sophie’s scar, and the thought that Sophie had a male admirer – and a handsome one like that- eased her conscience slightly. ‘Perhaps he’s in love with Agatha’, she said. ‘I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.” ~ Cassandra Clare
- “We Communists never conceal our political views. Definitely and beyond all doubt, our future or maximum program is to carry China forward to socialism and communism. Both the name of our Party and our Marxist world outlook unequivocally point to this supreme ideal of the future, a future of incomparable brightness and splendor.” ~ Mao Zedong
