Top 100 Life Measured Quotes
#1. His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.
Jorge Luis Borges
#2. But one wrong half turn of a steering wheel, one patch of wet road, one out of control moment, and the amount of life measured out to Victoria Nolan had run cruelly short.
Lisa Kleypas
#3. I want a long life, measured not in days and years but the moments that we spent together
Sapan Saxena
#4. Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.
Carly Fiorina
#5. Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
Neale Donald Walsch
#6. The value of your life is not measured in your success but your failures, your ability to fight, to make a better day for yourself is what you will remember in life's last challenge.
Westley Tusa
#7. I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
T. S. Eliot
#8. That's the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life it.
Kara Goucher
#9. Wealth of a heart is measured not by how much love it received, but by how much it gave away without expectation.
Debasish Mridha
#10. The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.
Soichiro Honda
#11. Life is measured by - the ones left behind? Or his Faith? By Love? or by the people aside you? Or it has no meaning at all?
Aman Jassal
#12. The purpose of life - if it may be said to have purpose - is not ease. It is to choose, and to act upon the choice. In that task, we are not measured by outcomes. We are measured only by daring and effort and resolve.
Stephen R. Donaldson
#13. The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.
James E. Faust
#14. I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington
#15. A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.
Gabrielle Zevin
#16. Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
Booker T. Washington
#17. In short, health is measured by the shock a person can take without his usual way of life being compromised
Moshe Feldenkrais
#18. The importance of pedestrian public spaces cannot be measured, but most other important things in life cannot be measured either: Friendship, beauty, love and loyalty are examples. Parks and other pedestrian places are essential to a city's happiness.
Enrique Penalosa
#19. Success need not always be measured in economic terms. It has to be measured in quality of life.
Sadghuru
#20. Do not try the parallels in that way: I know that way all along. I have measured that bottomless night, and all the light and all the joy of my life went out there.
Farkas Bolyai
#21. The value of a person's life is measured by the amount of people they touch in living it.
Scott Hildreth
#22. Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take your breath away - anon
Scarlett Flame
#23. As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet.
Kenneth Scott Latourette
#24. Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
Booker T. Washington
#25. But then he returned and our life went on. Three days gone. A week. I measured the time in the faint waning of my consciousness of my misery, and wondered if this would one day be enough: simply not to be consciously miserable anymore.
Sue Miller
#26. There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.
Benjamin Harrison
#27. My life will be measured in years; his will be measured in memories. I'm determined that whatever time we have together will never fade from his mind.
J.A. London
#28. Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#29. The quality of your practice is ultimately measured by its effect on the quality of your life. In other words, mastery in yoga is mastery of life.
Rod Stryker
#31. Life cannot be measured by time, for time is eternal. We are but students in different stages of eternal life.
L.G. Space
#32. All your life should be seen and measured in the light of eternity.
Jim George
#33. The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.
Carl Sagan
#34. A journey of a lifetime is measured by memories, not by time.
Debasish Mridha
#35. The joy of a self-giving life
Can neither be measured
Nor be expounded.
Sri Chinmoy
#36. Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
Bernard Malamud
#37. Life is not measured in time, but in love, contribution, and grace.
Carly Fiorina
#38. Is the price of happiness not weighed in the cost of commitment, the value of life's experience in the plurality of existence and measured in a love shared?
Don Swann II
#40. A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.
Chaim Potok
#41. Life is an error-making and an error-correctin g process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.
Jonas Salk
#42. Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have the right to be forgetful - it is 'life threatening'.
Garry Kasparov
#43. Before I tell you my story," Jasper said. "you must understand that there are places in our world, Bella, where the life span of the never-aging is measured in weeks, and not centuries.
Stephenie Meyer
#45. There must be a few times in life when you stand at a precipice of a decision. When you know there will forever be a Before and an After ... I knew there would be no turning back if I designated this moment as my own Prime Meridian from which everything else would be measured.
Justina Chen
#46. Life is not only measured by what happens to us. It is measured by the way in which we interpret what happens to us.
Gudjon Bergmann
#47. Some people have family crests, lions, tigers, unicorns, elephants - a whole menagerie - and if my family had a crest, you know what would be on it? A blintze. I mean it. All the good things in my life are measured in blintzes because by us it's not a party if there isn't a blintze ...
Gertrude Berg
#48. She does not know how to measure her life. When Sam was alive, she measured it through his love. She had always measured herself through the look in his eyes. She is afraid of admitting that to herself.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#49. Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale
Bertrand Russell
#50. If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.
Robert T. Bakker
#51. Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
Dennis Prager
#52. But let that not be the moral of my story. True happiness doesn't come from simply getting married. I don't believe a woman's worth should be measured by whether or not she's married.
Holly Madison
#53. If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.
John Piper
#54. Quality of life isn't measured only by what we gain, but also by what we trade for it.
Richard Louv
#55. Life is a journey that's measured not in miles or years but in experiences, and the route your life takes is built not of roads but of songs.
Jimmy Buffett
#56. The success of a civilization is measured not just in its aesthetic achievements but also, and surely more importantly, in the duration and quality of life of its citizens.
Niall Ferguson
#57. All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the "fifties" or "sixties," as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix.
Lester Bangs
#58. I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.
Nigella Lawson
#59. When the measured dance of the hours brings back the happy smile of spring, the buried dead is born again in the life-glance of the sun. The germs which perished to the eye within the cold breast of the earth spring up with joy in the bright realm of day.
Friedrich Schiller
#60. Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.
Watchman Nee
#61. I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?
T. S. Eliot
#62. Life is not measured by the money we earn but by the love that we give away.
Debasish Mridha
#63. Maybe life is measured by the first time you question your place in the world and by the final answer you come up with.
Chris Dietzel
#64. Living was okay, but it wasn't the breaths people took that measured a life. It was the moments that took those breaths away that mattered the most. And Dev did that every time he looked at her. Naked or not.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#65. Everything wants to be remembered, chronicled, documented: everything - all of this and all the rest, because your life is neither a finite length that can be measured out to a certain point and served, nor is it only your own.
Alex Jeffers
#66. For I have known them all already, known them all
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T. S. Eliot
#68. If everything we do in life is to be measured in terms of money, then life would be a very poor thing. The greater ambitions and desires of mankind are actuated by something deeper and finer than the desire to amass material wealth.
Frank Smythe
#69. I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.
Ted Cruz
#70. Moments vs. Years
Life's too long when measured in years,
and too short when measured in moments.
Beryl Dov
#71. Education is a sacred thing, and the pledge to build a school is a commitment that cannot be surrendered or broken, regardless of how long it may take, how many obstacles must be surmounted, or how much money it will cost. It is by such promises that the balance sheet of one's life is measured.
Greg Mortenson
#72. Self worth is not measured by what you have, no matter how full your life is. Rather, it comes from what you are, how authentically you're really living your life, and how much you are willing to give.
Shannon L. Alder
#73. Our success in life should be measured by the level of change you impart on the lives of the needy not by the amount of wealth you acquire".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#74. Remember that life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!
Vicki Corona
#75. Your failure is measured by your aspirations. Aspire not, and you cannot fail. Columbus died in chains. Joan or Arc was burned at the stake. Let us all live snugly -- and life will soon be little more than a thick, gelatinous stream of comfortability and ignorance.
Myles Connolly
#76. There are people who desperately want to change the world.
I wonder if it could be measured, because the world is already
in the state of continuously change since the beginning of time.
Or they may just want their names etched nicely on men history.
Toba Beta
#77. O, my Jesus, I understand well that, just as illness is measured with a thermometer and a high fever tells us of the seriousness of the illness; so also, in the spiritual life, suffering is the thermometer which measures the love of God in a soul.
Mary Faustina Kowalska
#78. Pleasure and well-being is negative and suffering positive, the happiness of a given life is not to be measured according to the joys and pleasures it contains but according to the absence of the positive element, the absence of suffering.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#79. I have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.' That's T.S. Eliot, in case you were wondering. An oldie but a goodie. When it came to existential exhaustion, the man was one smart cookie.
Justin Cronin
#80. A man is measured
not by the answers he finds
but the questions he asks.
Find an answer
and you stand still.
Stop asking questions
and you die.
Holly Bodger
#81. I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value.
Demi Moore
#82. The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in life. Character skills are equally important determinants of wages, education, health and many other significant aspects of flourishing lives.
James Heckman
#83. A Gallagher Girl's real grades don't come in pass or fail - they're measured in life or death.
Ally Carter
#84. He had insinuated himself into Nina's life in a gentle, measured way, through small gifts and intelligent, respectful notes. His attention was never overbearing, nor disturbingly selfless, but wise and reserved.
Daphne Kalotay
#85. Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.
Bergen Evans
#86. Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.
Nicholas Sparks
#87. All my life, I have judged my worth by how much I have been loved by a man. It's so with a lot of women, that their self-esteem is measured by how much they are loved by a man, their partner, their boyfriend or maybe their husband. In my case, it may be because I grew up without my father.
Katrina Kaif
#88. with each measured step,
we know
this earth is only as solid
as we are.
Sheniz Janmohamed
#89. She is but one small speck in a cosmos that is forever changing, and one's position in the world can be only measured by the experiences of an unbridled life that is personal, and beautiful, and hers.
Christina Escamilla
#90. Yet Jesus never measured His life by how or where He was of the greatest use. God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.
Oswald Chambers
#92. They say that life isn't measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. I have to agree with that.
[...]
And I am breathless now.
Because I am breaking.
Breaking inside, fragments, jagged and sharp.
Breaking in slow motion.
Karina Halle
#93. Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles one overcomes while trying to succeed
Booker T. Washington
#94. Beware! Guard against every kind of greed. Life is not measured by how much you own.
Anonymous
#95. And that's how life is measured - not by the length, but by the strength of those moments spent together.
Rachel Van Dyken
#96. Life was to be measured by the color and variety of its episodes,
Haruki Murakami
#98. that the sum of a man's life is not measured just by its accomplishments, but by how it is spent.
Simon Nasht
#99. What life she had left could be measured in hours. Small recompense though they were, they belonged to me now. I had only to claim them.
Kim Van Alkemade
#100. The ascetic ideal has an aim - this goal is, putting it generally, that all the other interests of human life should, measured by its standard, appear petty and narrow; it explains epochs, nations, men, in reference to this one end; it forbids any other interpretation, any other end; it
Friedrich Nietzsche
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