Top 62 Measure Of A Person Quotes
#1. The True measure of a person's success is to be a person of value.' I knew people of value, people who kept their promises, people who were kind, people who were loyal.
Marjorie Hart
#2. The true measure of a person's character is how one handles one's failures, not successes.
Bill Courtney
#3. Appearances can be so deceiving, such a poor measure of a person. Admonished the Savior, 'Judge not according to the appearance.
Thomas S. Monson
#4. Sometimes the measure of a person can only be gleaned through his interactions with others.
Anne Mallory
#7. The ultimate measure of a person is not her mistakes or accomplishments, but what she does with them.
Liza M. Wiemer
#8. Truly a legend in our time, John Templeton understands that the real measure of a person's success in life is not financial accomplishment but moral integrity and inner character.
Billy Graham
#9. The measure of a person's strength is not his muscular power or strength, but it is his flexibility and adaptability.
Debasish Mridha
#10. I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.
Steve Nash
#12. The true measure of a person is not in what he knows, but what he does with what he knows.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#13. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. It's in how they make use of what life has shown them.
Brandon Sanderson
#14. The measure of a person's disposition is this: how far is he from what he understands to what he does, how great is the distance between his understanding and his actions.
Soren Kierkegaard
#15. You can never get a true measure of a person - you can never fully understand yourself, even - because life is always throwing new things at us.
K.M. Shea
#16. You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived ... It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.
Brandon Sanderson
#17. Alan Lafley, who runs Procter & Gamble, apparently says: "A measure of a person's power is that their circle of influence is greater than their circle of control.
Julia Middleton
#18. The true measure of a person is how they treat someone who can do them aboslutely no good
Ann Landers
#20. Physical size can not measure the ferocity and compassion of the heart, spirit and soul. Truly in the measure of a person, short or tall doesn't matter at all.
William G. Bentrim
#21. Examine the measure of your children's capacities, and leave none of them uncultivated. However modest you may be in dress and other expenditures for a person of your rank, consecrate all you have to your children's education.
Sophie Von La Roche
#22. Kazue's journals depict an absolutely sublime struggle, the struggle between an individual and the rest of the world. Kazue lost the battle, ended up completely alone, and died hungry for some measure of kindness from another person. Don't you think it's a sad story?
Natsuo Kirino
#23. You can measure the depth of a person's awakening by how they serve others
Kukai
#24. You can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry
Dale Carnegie
#25. I wondered if there would ever come a time in my life where I wouldn't measure distance by the amount of time it would take for a person to physically come on to me.
Asa Akira
#26. If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in grace according to his thoughts and meditations upon the person of Christ, and the glory of Christ's Kingdom, and of His love.
John Owen
#27. Introduction to Amanda. - The equal measure of fear and desire her double-barrelled bust induced was plain to see. It might have been a mundane observation but it was something of an epiphany to Amanda just what it meant to be the only person in the room wearing a bra.
Francine Scott
#28. Don't let disappointment be the measure of your relationship with a person. Let trust be the measure.
Nicole Williams
#29. The man who submits to violence is debased by his compliance; but when he submits to that right of authority which he acknowledges in a fellow creature, he rises in some measure above the person who give the command.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#30. I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
Andre Gide
#31. Do you actually think that how long a person grieves is a measure of how much they loved someone?
David Wroblewski
#32. A true measure of an entrepreneur / successful-person is how they deal with adversity.
Noah Kagan
#33. When you're hounded by the shame of the past, you can turn into a pretty miserable person who is always trying to measure up and please others.
Ed Cyzewski
#34. A person is ruined by taking the measure of other persons.
Gautama Buddha
#35. You cannot measure the loss of a human life. It's all the things a person was, all their dreams, all the people who loved them, all they hoped to be and could give back to the world.
Joan Bauer
#36. To measure your needs by that which is projected via mass media is a mistake that has no mercy. The average person views a minimum of one thousand advertisements a day. To say "no" to the most outrageous commercials is an act of responsibility that needs to be taught early and often.
Haki R. Madhubuti
#37. We must not see any person as an
abstraction.
Instead, we must see in every
person a universe with its own secrets,
with its own treasures, with its own
sources of anguish,
and with some measure of
triumph.
Elie Wiesel
#38. Schooling is certainly not a great proxy for knowhow and knowledge, since it is by definition a measure of the time spent in an establishment, not of the knowledge embodied in a person's brain.
Cesar Hidalgo
#39. The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
Ramsey Clark
#40. You can gauge the limitations of a person's life by the size of the problems that get him or her down. You can measure the impact a person's life has by the size of the problems he or she solves.
Jeff Olson
#41. An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work of art is beautiful by being what Art has never been; and to measure it by the standard of the past is to measure it by a standard on the rejection of which its real perfection depends.
Oscar Wilde
#42. People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, generosity and an absence of variety. You learn to look into yourself.
Nelson Mandela
#43. The measure of self-motivation in a young person will become the best way to predict upward mobility.
Tyler Cowen
#44. On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.
Soren Kierkegaard
#45. It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
Alfred Adler
#46. Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
Ann Landers
#47. You can measure a man's worth by the breed of person he throws out of his office.
Dave Sim
#48. Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.
Margaret Atwood
#49. Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
George Eliot
#50. There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he's absolutely free to choose.
William M. Bulger
#51. Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.
Justin Cronin
#52. The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.
Thomas E. Woods Jr.
#53. Scales lie! You lose thirty pounds of muscle and you gain thirty pounds of fat and you weigh the same, right?
Take that tape measure out. That won't lie. Your waistline is your lifeline.
It should be the same as it was when you were a young person.
Jack LaLanne
#54. ... a woman's loyalty, or devotion, or intelligence isn't measure by the number of cocks that have fucked her, but rather who she is as a person
Al Daltrey
#55. Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
Larry Hagman
#56. The true measure of a best friend is where they are when you "make" the biggest decision of your life, not where they were during the decision process.
Shannon L. Alder
#57. I tend to think the good outweighs the bad. Then again, I try to be a glass-half-full person. Although I stand by my theory that if you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid in your glass, you are either a cliche or an alcoholic.
Caprice Crane
#58. Whoever claims to understand another person completely, is either entirely ignorant of himself, or else has a nature so small that he can measure it easily, and supposes it to be the standard of every other nature.
Lucy Larcom
#59. I have tried hard to be a good person and to leave the world a better place. To feel that I have in any small way succeeded is to me a prize beyond measure, the most wonderful wealth that I could ask for, a form of prosperity that I would wish for the whole world to experience and enjoy.
Roz Savage
#60. Not every girl can be Isabelle Lightwood or Katniss Everdeen. I think the true measure of a hero is what a person does with what they have, how hard they are willing to fight, and how far they are willing to go to set things right.
Sarah Cross
#61. True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulates. The inner character of a person - the undergirding moral and spiritual values and commitments - is the true measure of lasting greatness.
Billy Graham
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