How To Measure Your Life Quotes

#1. One must measure and conduct one's life on its own terms.

Henry Grunwald

#2. Thank you ... for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.

Richard Matheson

#3. Time meant opportunity. After all, what more do we have than time? We measure it arbitrarily, but as we spend it, until it's used up, it is called living.

Kenneth Eade

#4. We must teach our children that the real measure of their success in life is how much they'd be worth if they had absolutely nothing.

Walt Mueller

#5. French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning.

Naomi Wolf

#6. We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.

Steve Gleason

#7. For Alice, of course, the measure of how you held up in the face of a life-threatening illness was not how much you changed but how much you stayed the same, in control of your own identity.

Calvin Trillin

#8. I really think in life there is a lot of mystery and things we just can't understand, so your brain has to adapt. We all have to deal with the twists of fate whether they are explained or not and it's how you react in life to these curveballs that is really the measure of a man.

Larry Fessenden

#9. It is a sad thing to begin life with low conceptions of it. It may not be possible for a young man to measure life; but it is possible to say, I am resolved to put life to its noblest and best use.

Thornton T. Munger

#10. Let us measure time not by moments but by memories.

Debasish Mridha

#11. How important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once ...

Primo Levi

#12. How do you measure someone's life? By the scope of their accomplishments, or the number of people they've touched, or by the width of a hand? None of it seemed fair. None of it seemed like enough.

Yvonne Woon

#13. Life is short is what some niggaz said; not if you measure life - by how one lives and what he did.

Nas

#14. One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution.

Robert M. Pirsig

#15. Nearly every aspect of life was subject to some measure of legal restraint. At a local level, you could be fined for letting your ducks wander in the road, for misappropriating town gravel, for having a guest in your house without a permit from the local bailiff.

Bill Bryson

#16. if u think thaat achieving ur goals is the true measure of ur potential then u dont neeed us but if u think that u have the will to go beyond the limits of glory then come lets join us,,, after all u r what u want to be....

Indian Navy

#17. There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.

Leigh Hunt

#18. How to measure a life's worth? The important thing, said Paloma one day, is not the fact of dying, it is what you are doing in the moment of your death.

Muriel Barbery

#19. Don't measure life against time. Measure life by the milestones you have reached.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Enough already with your macho bullcrap. I am sick to death of men telling me how to run my life. In case you didn't notice, I have a whole bevy of men downstairs just dying to tell me how I don't measure up. The last thing I need is another one.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#21. The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and
respect yourself.

Brian Tracy

#22. How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.

Edwin Way Teale

#23. Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Warren Buffett

#24. Made me wonder whether putting names to time made much of a difference anyway. What did it measure? Not how much life passes. Hell no. Your whole life can pass and be changed in a second or in a century. Don't matter.

Robert Hicks

#25. Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all.

G.K. Chesterton

#26. Maybe that's all life was, this impossibly complicated helix of choice and accident, things you could control and couldn't. And when the day was done, the only measure of success was how happy you were, how much you loved and were loved.

Lisa Unger

#27. Life does not measure up to performing ... Performing is perfect.

Joan Rivers

#28. Amount of freedom you have in your life is not the measure of the worth of your life. Just as safety is an empty and even self-defeating goal to live for, so ultimately is autonomy.

Atul Gawande

#29. Measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. Warren Buffet

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#30. Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.

Virginia Woolf

#31. As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.

Joseph Prince

#32. For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation.

John F. Kennedy

#33. Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#34. The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#35. Feeling burdened rather than uplifted by everyday duties is more a mindset than a measure of what is going on in your life.

Kelly McGonigal

#36. Do you believe, man of this time, that laughter is lower than worship? Where is your measure, false measurer? The sum of life decides in laughter and in worship, not your judgment.

C. G. Jung

#37. The real measure of success is how one feels about being alive.

Marty Rubin

#38. In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"

James Russell Lowell

#39. But I did what I thought was right in the moment. In the end, that's all a man has to measure his life, and it's plenty.

Justin Cronin

#40. The most treasured and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love. The greater the measure of our love, the greater is our joy. In the end, the development of such love is the true measure of success in life.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#41. Would we as a nation be better off dealing with the truth rather than believing fantasies that prop up the Status Quo and the Fed's dearly beloved measure of the economy, the stock market? How often does accepting illusion help us navigate real life? Short answer: never.

Charles Hugh Smith

#42. I build boxes
and place them at your feet,
to measure the distance
between dreams and reality.

Jessica Kristie

#43. The fault of this country is the want of measure in political life. Flat acquiescence in illegality, followed by sanguinary reaction - that, senores, is not the way to a stable and prosperous future.

Joseph Conrad

#44. Measure of life is not by its duration but by the amount of love you gave away without expectations.

Debasish Mridha

#45. He will not, I think, find it logical to live with what he has done today. I have told him that you are his responsibility. While he believes that, he will continue to protect you. I tell you this, so that you will understand what is happening. He will measure his life by your helplessness.

Dorothy Dunnett

#46. Never measure your life by possessions. Measure it by the hearts you've touched, the smiles you created & the love you shared.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#47. When you get to my age, you'll measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. That's the ultimate test of how you've lived your life.

Warren Buffett

#48. I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability.

Sonia Sotomayor

#49. The measure of our success will not be determined by how we act during the great times in our life but rather by how we think and respond to the challenges of our most difficult moments.

Jon Gordon

#50. ....a crucial measure of our success in life is the way we treat one another every day of our lives.

P. M. Forni