Top 81 Direct Proportion Quotes
#1. Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
Douglas Horton
#2. A strange irony, Crott reflected, that the most base and lowly of London folk were the most honour-bound of all, and that the value of honour diminished in direct proportion to the heights of society a man climbed to.
Chris Wooding
#3. We will become mightier and more powerful in our own right in direct proportion to the service and contribution we make to strengthen the Church.
Henry D. Moyle
#4. The pain we feel When someone leaves our life is in direct proportion to the joy they bring while a part of our life for a few moments. In my life you made me feel as if I truly meant something to someone
Javan
#5. In every instance I noted that a people's prosperity or misery lay in direct proportion to its freedom or its inhibitions and, along the same lines, of the sacrifice or selfishness of its ancestors.
Jose Rizal
#6. The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.
Brian Tracy
#7. Like what you see?" Asher asked him, that deep voice sounding scratchy and sexy as hell. "'Cause, you know, the angle of the dangle is in direct proportion to the booty of the cutie.
Cardeno C.
#8. Success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success - and success is in direct proportion to our service.
Earl Nightingale
#9. You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.
Spider Robinson
#10. Your ability to build a successful sales career is in direct proportion to the quality and quantity of service you render on a daily basis.
Michelle Moore
#11. You can have faith in writing itself. That's where to place your faith, in the same way that a pole vaulter places his faith in the laws of physics. He will go up in direct proportion to the strength with which he pushed off, and he will come down every time.
Nancy Pickard
#12. The degree to which you will awaken is in direct proportion to the amount of truth you are willing to accept about yourself.
Robert Anthony
#13. Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, hasbeen respected exactly to the degree that it went too far.
Rem Koolhaas
#14. My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
Michael J. Fox
#15. The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
Marcel Proust
#16. Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.
Brian Tracy
#17. The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him wrong.
Harry Segall
#18. Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.
Kirkpatrick Sale
#19. We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate
Ilya Prigogine
#20. Our measure of hope is in direct proportion to our ability to conquer hopelessness.
LeeAnn Taylor
#21. You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve
Elon Musk
#22. Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, Internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.
Werner Herzog
#23. What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.
Oprah Winfrey
#24. The amount of respect you have for others is in direct proportion to how much respect you have for yourself.
RuPaul
#25. The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
Marcel Proust
#26. The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.
Tom Landry
#27. Your happiness is in direct proportion to the amount you serve others.
Chris Matakas
#28. You will be paid in direct proportion to the value you create in the marketplace.
T. Harv Eker
#29. The number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.
Tom Hopkins
#30. Success in life is in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do.
Brian Tracy
#31. It strikes me that the power or capability of a man in getting rich is in inverse proportion to his reflective powers and in direct proportion to his impudence.
Paul Sochaczewski
#32. The quality of people's lives is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour.
Vincent Lombardi
#33. The effectiveness of your ministry to people will be in direct proportion to the time you spend away from people and with God in a quiet time of preparation.
Elizabeth George
#34. To me, the money is - it's certainly a wonderful thing. But it is in direct proportion to how you're able to bless yourself and bless others with it.
Oprah Winfrey
#35. There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.
Mark Rydell
#36. When you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger.
W. E. B. Griffin
#37. The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
Armistead Maupin
#38. The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi
#39. What I'm doing in here isn't all that different from what I was doing outside. I'll hand you a pretty cynical axiom: the amount of financial help an individual or company needs rises in direct proportion to how many people that person or business is screwing.
Stephen King
#40. We are trusted, loved and wanted in direct proportion to how we trust, love and want those with whom we come in contact
Richard Hall
#41. The intelligence and ability of a colored person are in pretty direct proportion to the amount of white blood he has, and ... most of the positions of leadership, influence, and prominence in the Negro race are held not by real Negroes but by Mulattoes, many of whom have very little Negro blood.
Madison Grant
#42. The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.
Oprah Winfrey
#43. The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
Denis Waitley
#44. Am reading the life of Mozart and cannot help thinking that one's capacity for suffering is in direct proportion to one's greatness.
Lily Koppel
#45. By first grade, my sense of worth was in direct proportion to what I learned and what I contributed back to the class. I had already become a human doing instead of a human being.
Sharon E. Rainey
#46. The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of your relationships.
Anthony Robbins
#47. Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived.
Aldous Huxley
#48. The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.
Bryan Q. Miller
#49. Whatever you accomplish in a lifetime will be in direct proportion to the intensity and persistence of your faith
Bob Proctor
#50. As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.
Casey Neistat
#51. Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
John Galsworthy
#52. Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden
#53. There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.
John Phillips Marquand
#54. The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.
Norman Cousins
#55. We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#56. Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor".
Sherman Alexie
#57. Evidently, one thing seems to have more value in direct proportion to whether or not we feel we have the freedoms, joys or conveniences of that thing.
David Brier
#58. It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.
Calvin Trillin
#59. The 'deep' civic function of the humanities ... is something understood very well by totalitarian societies, which tend to keep close tabs on them, and to circumscribe them in direct proportion to how stringently the population is controlled.
Mark Slouka
#60. Our nation will prosper or decline in direct proportion to our selection of leaders who are guided by the Holy Spirit. If we fail to select Godly leaders our destiny will surely be as that of the Roman Empire.
Ronald Reagan
#61. A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.
Eric Hoffer
#62. To receive, you must be active. Keep in mind your purpose. You will receive in direct proportion to your clarity of vision, your definiteness of purpose, the steadiness of your faith, and the depth of your gratitude.
John-Roger
#63. I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the sacrifices or the selfishness of its forefathers. -Juan Crisostomo Ibarra
Jose Rizal
#64. There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.
Ernst Haas
#65. Dogmatism increases in direct proportion to a person's inability to prove a point.
Donald J. Walters
#66. The ability to hurt someone is usually in direct proportion to how much that person cares about you.
Susan Mallery
#67. Your business and results are a reflection of you. Your business and results will grow in direct proportion to your own growth.
James Arthur Ray
#68. God will manifest himself in direct proportion to our passion for him.
Jim Cymbala
#69. Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to your service
Earl Nightingale
#70. It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong leadership is growing in direct proportion to our lack of confidence in ourselves. The end of this century is an unusually difficult time to be a leader in Australia.
Hugh Mackay
#71. The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.
Elizabeth George
#72. What separates those who achieve from those who do not is in direct proportion to one's ability to ask for help.
Donald Keough
#73. When one fierce passion is devouring the soul, we feel more than ever the necessity of external excitement; and our dependence on the world for temporary relief increases in direct proportion to our contempt of the world and all its works. He
Charles Robert Maturin
#74. Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants.
Thomas Hardy
#75. All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed.
Adam Smith
#76. Honesty is to truth as prow is to stern. Honesty appears first and truth appears last. The interval between varies in direct proportion to the size of ship. With anything of size, truth takes a long time in coming. Sometimes it only manifests itself posthumously.
Haruki Murakami
#77. Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.
Cicely Tyson
#78. In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.
Baruch Spinoza
#79. This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that the indirect is by far the most hopeful and economic form of strategy.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#80. He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner.
Washington Irving
#81. Socialism increases in direct ratio and proportion with the surrender of personal responsibility to neighbor.
Fulton J. Sheen
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