Top 100 In Proportion Quotes
#1. Your success in worldly life (sansar) is in proportion to your faith and truthfulness!
Dada Bhagwan
#2. Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.
Edmund Burke
#3. Humility is a Divine property and the perfection of the Christian life. It is attained through obedience. He who is not obedient cannot gain humility. There are very few in the world today who have obedience. Our humility is in proportion to our obedience.
Thaddeus Of Vitovnica
#4. ...[I]n any inquiry you are likely to attain more nearly to knowledge of your object in proportion to the care and accuracy with which you have prepared yourself to understand that object in itself[.]
Socrates
#5. In proportion to the size of the vessel of faith, brought by us to the Lord, is the measure we draw out of His overflowing grace.
Cyprian
#6. Unfortunately, the fact is that modern antisemitism grew in proportion as traditional nationalism declined, and reached its climax at the exact moment when the European system of nation-states and its precarious balance of power crashed.
Hannah Arendt
#7. There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. None of us knows how long we have, maybe another month, maybe another fifty years -I like living as if I only have two days
Jennifer Niven
#8. Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
Rollo May
#9. The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.
Philibert Joseph Roux
#10. It's amazing, the increase in grammatical errors in proportion to the level of hatred in the content of hate mail.
Christina Engela
#11. Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.
Richard Whately
#12. Intelligence is to genius as the whole is in proportion to its part.
Jean De La Bruyere
#13. I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in the full-figure. I want to abstract forms.
Ralph Gibson
#14. This is the unavoidable conclusion of Matthew 10. To everyone wanting a safe, untroubled, comfortable life free from danger, stay away from Jesus. The danger in our lives will always increase in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.
David Platt
#15. An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.
William Hazlitt
#16. Prayers are heard in heaven in proportion to our faith. Little faith gets very great mercies, but great faith still greater.
Charles Spurgeon
#17. A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.
Norman Mailer
#18. There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.
Henry David Thoreau
#19. My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made.
Nikola Tesla
#20. In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.
Blaise Pascal
#21. Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon and mysticism it offers to their wonder and credulity.
William Hazlitt
#22. In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion as it approaches the effect of painting.
Michelangelo
#24. Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.
J.C. Ryle
#25. In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler's increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals.
Paul Lafargue
#26. If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.
Josh Billings
#27. There are two sides to life for every individual: a personal life, in which his freedom exists in proportion to the abstract nature of his interests, and an elemental life within the swarm of humanity, in which a man inevitably follows laws laid down for him.
Leo Tolstoy
#28. Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
Charles Caleb Colton
#29. Young gentlemen whose whiskers have not yet developed are authoritatively deciding that nothing can be decided, and dogmatically denouncing all dogmas. We meet them every day, and we notice that in proportion to their ignorance is their confidence in sneering at every holy thing.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#30. In proportion as our cares are employed upon the future, they are abstracted from the present, from the only time which we can call our own, and of which, if we neglect the apparent duties to make provision against visionary attacks, we shall certainly counteract our own purpose.
Samuel Johnson
#31. Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received.
[Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo
Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.]
Juvenal
#32. A lie carries a weight that is exponentially higher than the truth. It's weight will retard growth directly in proportion to the area lied.
Howard L. Salter
#33. There are no limits to your possibilities! Your successes will multiply and increase in proportion to your mastery of the law.
Roger McDonald
#34. In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others ...
John Stuart Mill
#35. Simplify, simplify. Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion.
Henry David Thoreau
#36. Divide the target in proportion to the available resources
Sunday Adelaja
#37. The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
Stendhal
#38. We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil ... Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.
Mahatma Gandhi
#39. The power that flows from His name, the name Jesus, will be in proportion to our love for His Word.
T. B. Joshua
#40. A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
Will Rogers
#41. In God's sight everyone can become successful to some degree, in proportion to that which he has received from God.
Sunday Adelaja
#42. Require ... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes.
Robert A. Dahl
#43. Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.
James Boswell
#44. A person understands other's language only in tune with his attitude with most people all the time, so it's wise to act nice with individuals only in proportion with the truth cherished in their lives.
Anuj
#45. All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.
Mortimer J. Adler
#46. Damn. Six feet four and everything in proportion, the quote went. It was true in this case.
Stacia Kane
#47. It's surprising to a lot of people because ballerinas look so long, but it's more of a proportion thing. Their legs are long in proportion to their body but in reality they're very tiny.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
#48. There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
Alan Bennett
#49. Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they experience as desirable or even intimately necessary.
Janna Malamud Smith
#50. The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
Quintilian
#51. The remoteness of a thing is in proportion rather to the visual power of the memory that is looking at it than to the real interval of the intervening days,
Marcel Proust
#52. Good writing is true writing. If a man is making a story up it will be true in proportion to the amount of knowledge of life that he has and how conscientious he is; so that when he makes something up it is as it would truly be.
Ernest Hemingway,
#53. States are not populated in accordance with the natural progression of propagation, but by virtue of their industry, their products, and their different institutions. ... Men multiply like the yields from the ground and in proportion to the advantages and resources they find in their labors.
Michel Foucault
#54. Of necessity she went further in aversion than she had gone in love, for her hatred was not in proportion to her love but to her disappointed hopes.
Honore De Balzac
#55. Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.
William Hazlitt
#56. The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations of exile will you truly enjoy your homecoming.
Rumi
#57. We receive love roughly in proportion to our capacity to love.
Rollo May
#58. Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.
John Ruskin
#59. Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.
Adam Smith
#60. Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers.
Lord Chesterfield
#61. Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant ... In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own character and that of the people becomes worse.
John Taylor Of Caroline
#63. Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.
Felix Schelling
#64. The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
#65. If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.
Baruch Spinoza
#66. The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#67. To me, a great ineptitude exists on the part of those who would have it that God made the universe more in proportion to the small capacity of their reason than to His immense, His infinite, power.
Galileo Galilei
#68. Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#69. In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food.
Joseph Hume
#70. If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.
Henry David Thoreau
#71. It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.
Adam Smith
#72. Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size.
Fay Wray
#73. Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.
James Madison
#74. Just in proportion as we realize how much Christ has done for us, shall we labour to do much for Christ.
J.C. Ryle
#75. The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.
Frantz Fanon
#76. If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#77. Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.
Tim Ferriss
#78. I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain.
Emily Bronte
#80. True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.
Thomas Merton
#81. The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives.
Adam Smith
#82. Dr. Bonar once said that he could tell when a Christian was growing. In proportion to his growth in grace he would elevate his Master, talk less of what he himself was doing, and become smaller and smaller in his own esteem, until, like the morning star, he faded away before the rising sun.
Dwight L. Moody
#83. Let us never forget that an age prospers or dwindles in proportion to its devotion to the Holy Eucharist. This is the measure of its spiritual life and its faith, of its charity and its virtue.
Peter Julian Eymard
#84. We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.
Fred Rogers
#85. I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#86. Every young person has to bear the burden - heavier in proportion as the individuality is richer - of accommodating himself to existence now that it is no longer seen with the eyes of a child, the eyes to which everything is as it should be.
Ellen Key
#87. In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
Karl Marx
#88. Far be it from me to insult the pun! I honor it in proportion to its merits; nothing more. All the most august, the most sublime, the most charming of humanity, and perhaps outside of humanity, have made puns.
Victor Hugo
#89. The scenery doesn't necessarily improve in proportion to how far you travel or how much you spend.
Ron Lizzi
#90. But with the increase of serious and just ground of complaint, a new kind of patience had sprung up in her Mother's mind. She was gentle and quiet in intense bodily suffering, almost in proportion as she had been restless and depressed when there had been no real cause for grief.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#91. Three individuals form a partnership and agree to divide the
profits equally. X invests $9,000, Y invests $7,000, Z invests
$4,000. If the profits are $4,800, how much less does X receive
than if the profits were divided in proportion to the amount invested?
Jonah Lehrer
#92. In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.
Booker T. Washington
#93. Peace is in proportion to every pause: observe the difference between to run, to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie, to die.
Saib Tabrizi
#94. One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.
Mortimer Adler
#95. Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.
Rumi
#96. Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted.
Ray Dalio
#97. Our love for God and our appreciation of His love and forgiveness will be in proportion to the recognition of our sin and unworthiness.
Dave Hunt
#98. The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.
Henry George
#99. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin
#100. Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
William Blake
