Top 100 Measure Of Quotes
#2. Sufficiency isn't two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn't a measure of barely enough or more than enough. Sufficiency isn't an amount at all. It is an experience, a context we generate, a declaration, a knowing that there is enough, and that we are enough.
Brene Brown
#3. As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
Vaclav Havel
#4. The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money.
Benjamin Jowett
#5. We, the people, still believe that every citizen deserves a basic measure of security and dignity.
Barack Obama
#6. Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness.
John Campbell Shairp
#7. That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.
Lupe Fiasco
#8. The ultimate measure of love is not when both like each other
Its when one ignores but the other continues to love till the end.
William Shakespeare
#9. To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.
Barbara Tuchman
#10. I am convinced of the necessity to take an effective measure of self defense.
Seishiro Itagaki
#11. Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
H.G.Wells
#12. We are the measure of all things.
And the beauty of our creation, of our art
is proportional to the beauty of ourselves
of our souls.
Jonas Mekas
#13. The greatest defect we have in our prayers and in all that happens to us, particularly in that which concerns tribulations, is our lack of confidence ... Faith is great or little according to the measure of our confidence.
Francis De Sales
#14. Happiness is a measure of one's fill of not physical success, but of mental and spiritual success.
Lionel Suggs
#15. Before you can improve your life and find a measure of happiness, you must learn to do one thing every day out of pure love.
Harold Klemp
#17. Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy
Be heaped like mine, and that thy skill be more
To blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath
This neighbours air, and let rich music's tongue
Unfold the imagined happiness that both
Receive in either by this dear encounter.
William Shakespeare
#18. What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity?
David Levithan
#19. To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.
Benno C. Schmidt Jr.
#20. Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure
though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#21. This white hot pain, naturally, is basically nothing but a precise measure of the forces which hold this body together. It is a precise measure of the force which has made my existence possible. Death and life are actually MONSTROUS things.
Lars Gustafsson
#22. The measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many men he serves .
Dwight L. Moody
#23. I believe that the best measure of whether a nation is going to be successful is whether they are tapping the talents of their women.
Barack Obama
#24. All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
Yann Martel
#25. no genius that ever won acclaim did so without a measure of indulgence. Name me any man you like who had a celebrated reputation, and I'll tell you what the age he lived in forgave him, what it turned a blind eye to in his work.
Seneca.
#26. 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
#27. The best measure of a successful life is the way we turn away, we renounce, and even by the way we depart it.
Tariq Ramadan
#28. Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of our intelligence.
Jacques Maritain
#29. Do not test the measure of his love for you by the way he expresses his body's heat. He is not thinking of you at those times. He is thinking of himself.
Pearl S. Buck
#30. The real wants of nature are the measure of enjoyments, as the foot is the measure of the shoe. We can call only the want of what is necessary poverty.
Pope Clement I
#31. Does it really help to imagine that there is some one full, objective, true account of nature and that the proper measure of scientific achievement is the extent to which it brings us closer to that ultimate goal?
Thomas S. Kuhn
#32. The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn't go our way.
Gregg Popovich
#33. As it turned out, Clark's shortcomings as a strategist - particularly failing to accurately take the measure of Milosevic - were as nothing in comparison to his deficiencies as a battlefield general.
Andrew J. Bacevich
#34. They glanced at one another like tigers taking measure of a menacing new rival. But in this kind of jungle you could never be sure where the real danger lurked.
Erich Segal
#35. True humanism points the way toward God and acknowledges the task to which we are called, the task which offers us the real meaning of human life. Man is not the ultimate measure of man. Man becomes truly man only by passing beyond himself.
Pope Paul VI
#36. Not time is the measure of movement but: ... each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
John Locke
#37. The measure of life is not by duration but by effective action.
Debasish Mridha
#38. Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.
Nigella Lawson
#39. Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
Steven Tyler
#40. Here is how I take the measure of my progress in life: I imagine myself as I was, back there in
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#41. The 'wandering studio' gathers and stores experiences, takes chances with the unfamiliar and requires a measure of self-trust. Mistakes are part of the change of scene.
Sara Genn
#42. Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
#43. The work, the work, the work. This is what the business is all about. This is the fun, the glory, the pleasure. It's the only true measure of an agency. In the absence of great work, nothing else matters.
Phil Dusenberry
#44. A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
Francis Crick
#45. The problem is that, partly because we are women, a large measure of our happiness depends on our relationships - including, unavoidably, our relationships with men.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#46. The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members
Mahatma Gandhi
#47. The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#50. Wisdom: Knowledge rightly applied. We assimilate lots of knowledge. Whether or not we do anything with that knowledge is a measure of our wisdom. That implies some change ... and change can be difficult.
Hyrum W. Smith
#51. art is worthless
unless it plants
a measure of splendor in people's hearts
Taha Muhammad Ali
#52. Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.
Anthony Daniels
#53. Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.
Anne Rice
#55. The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
George Bancroft
#56. The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.
Harry A. Blackmun
#57. We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.
Cesar Chavez
#58. The measure of self-assurance is how deeply and sincerely interested you are in others; the measure of insecurity is how much you try to impress them with you.
Mark Goulston
#60. The measure of performance of any given agent is the amount of money it accumulates through its actions.
John Henry Holland
#61. That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of our alienation and confusion. Or we can choose to see it in a more positive light and count ourselves fortunate indeed that there is once again real food for us to eat.
Michael Pollan
#62. Amount of search is not a measure of the amount of intelligence being exhibited. What makes a problem a problem is not that a large amount of search is required for its solution, but that a large amount would be required if a requisite level of intelligence were not applied.
Allen Newell
#63. Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
W.T. Purkiser
#64. When however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is going to be trouble.
John Irving
#66. The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will.
John Of Ruysbroeck
#67. Without a path to redemption, a man would watch the world burn. With a measure of hope, the same man ...
Well. He would not be the same man, would he?
Zachary Jernigan
#68. The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.
Brian Tracy
#69. The autonomy to have a consensual relationship with whoever we love is the ultimate measure of the freedom of a society.
Rod Dubey
#70. We are the women of daylight; of clocks and steel foundries, of drugstores and streetlights, of superhighways that slice our days in two. Our dreams are pale memories of themselves, and nagging doubt is the false measure of our days.
Paula Gunn Allen
#71. Market competition is the only form of organization which can afford a large measure of freedom to the individual.
Frank Knight
#72. Act after having made assessments. The one who first knows the measure of far and near wins - this is the rule of armed struggle.
Sun Tzu
#73. I love you only because it's you the one I love;
I hate you deeply, and hating you
Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you
Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.
Pablo Neruda
#74. Vadderung grinned. I've never heard it phrased quite like that, but it's accurate enough. In any event, overcoming that inertia requires tremendous energy, will, and a measure of simple luck. If one wishes to alter the course of history, it's a far simpler matter to attempt to shape the future.
Jim Butcher
#75. For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.
Wendell Berry
#76. Above all, if we'd only acknowledge that all of us are mistaken from time to time, then we'd be more willing to forgive others in the hopes they will extend the same measure of charity to us.
Jonathan V. Last
#77. Skin color is basically a measure of the local ultraviolet levels, and it is controlled by relatively minor adaptive changes in the genome.
Bill Nye
#78. What we decide to do in the face of adversity is perhaps the truest measure of character.
Ian Usher
#79. In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
Thomas Hobbes
#80. There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.
Wentworth Miller
#81. In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#82. The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems.
C. West Churchman
#83. Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving.
Coventry Patmore
#84. The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and
respect yourself.
Brian Tracy
#85. In the long run no individual prospers beyond the measure of his faith.
Bruce Barton
#86. The base sides of the Great Pyramid of Giza referred to the solar calendar while the backbone of the structure itself (manifested in the whole design emanating from the base diagonal figure) was modeled according to the measure of the lunar year.
Ibrahim Ibrahim
#87. Exile is courage. True exile is the true measure of each writer.
Roberto Bolano
#88. The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food ... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.
Ernst Engel
#89. To take the measure of a man, watch not how he treats his friends, watch how he treats a conquered foe.
Aleksandr Voinov
#90. Memories are not always the best measure of things.
Amy Neftzger
#91. True inner righteousness does not judge according to custom but by the measure of the most perfect law of God Almighty by which the mores of various places and times were adapted to those places and times.
Augustine Of Hippo
#92. The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.
John Ruskin
#93. The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting.
John Lyly
#94. Anger - and a small measure of shame about what she'd heard - speared down my spine, causing me to sit up straight. "You rudely eavesdropped on my appointment at the bank, googled me, and now you think you understand my situation?" What the fuck?
Mia Sheridan
#95. The measure of your greatness is not by the narrowness of your beliefs, but by the broadness of your vision.
Debasish Mridha
#96. Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.
Brian Tracy
#97. If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude ...
A.E. Housman
#98. The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.
Thurgood Marshall
#99. In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and the secret of my success. All the rest is showiness, arrogance and conceit.
Stella Adler
#100. The measure of a man is not necessarily his title or his position, but rather how he treats others ...
Victor L. Brown
