Top 100 Measure The Quotes
#1. Measure the success of your days by the lives touched vs the hours passed.
Robin Sharma
#2. Who can measure the love Christ felt for a lost world, as he hung upon the cross, suffering for the sins of guilty men? This love was immeasurable. It was infinite.
Ellen G. White
#3. I measure the amount of shows I should do by my hair. If my hair isn't good for campaigns and editorials, then obviously I am not going to look good.
Lindsey Wixson
#4. The more they measure, the more they realize how much the Greeks departed from regular and banal lines in order to produce their effect.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#5. For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by the effect it exerts on the people. And this alone gives the standard for the speaker's genius.
Adolf Hitler
#6. Happiness begins with impeccability of the word. The way to measure the impeccability of my word is to ask, "Am I happy or am I suffering?" If I'm suffering, then I'm not being impeccable with my word.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#7. Without doubt, there are lots of ways to measure the pulse of a business. But if you have employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow right, you can be sure your company is healthy and on the way to winning.
Jack Welch
#8. Inequality makes the pie of things smaller, yet economists measure the size of the pie not by how much substance it contains but by its price. It is entirely possible, therefore, for economists to measure as growth what most people experience as economic decline.
Moshe Adler
#9. Twitter is like hugging. Just because it's hard to measure the return on investment doesn't mean there isn't value there.
Tony Hsieh
#10. Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.
Andrew Card
#11. 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
#12. You can measure the depth of a person's awakening by how they serve others
Kukai
#13. Under the blanket the outline of her body was slender and displayed a certain innocence, a precious quality far more significant than the elegance of her form. She seemed to radiate kindness and essential goodness, and Darby, trying to measure the value of her, told himself it was immeasurable.
David Goodis
#14. You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
Booker T. Washington
#15. The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.
Pele
#16. You can measure the impeccability of your word by your level of self-love. How much you love yourself and how you feel about yourself are directly proportionate to the quality and integrity of your word. When you are impeccable with your word, you feel good; you feel happy and at peace.
Miguel Ruiz
#17. God does not measure the precepts of his law by human strength, but, after ordering what is right, freely bestows on his elect the power of fulfilling it.
John Calvin
#18. Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.
Jacqueline Susann
#19. You wake up one morning to realize life has, literally, passed you by. Even though the living felt long and filled with happiness beyond measure, the reliving brings to mind how fleeting time is compared to the stars in the sky above us.
Tymber Dalton
#20. I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.
Isaac Newton
#21. I tried to balance the sufferings of the miserable victim against the moral degradation of Memphis, and the truth flashed over me that in large measure the race question involves the saving of black America's body and white America's soul.
Philip Dray
#22. You can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry
Dale Carnegie
#23. You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#24. Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#25. No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer.
W. Edwards Deming
#26. But we comforted ourselves with what we really meant to say, which was: "I don't normally feel this good about what I'm doing."
Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling.
Everything else will be measured against it.
David Levithan
#27. College rankings, though, are very different. The rankings simply don't measure what people think they measure: the educational experience for an individual student. Doing that requires a personalized look at a college through the eyes of a potential student.
Sally P. Springer
#28. I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.
Johannes Kepler
#29. Don't measure the size of the mountain; talk to the One who can move it.
Max Lucado
#31. One of the biggest pitfalls for performance measurement is to measure the "part" with ignorance of the "whole.
Pearl Zhu
#32. Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.
Winston Churchill
#33. Beloved, there is no way to measure the continuing influence of one godly mother.
Elizabeth George
#34. If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.
Catherine Deneuve
#35. The unknown is not measurable by the known. Time cannot measure the timeless, the eternal, that immensity which has no beginning and no end ... when we try to measure something which is not measurable, we only get caught in words.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#36. History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.
Rick Perlstein
#37. The general advertisers and their agencies know almost nothing for sure, because they cannot measure the results of their advertising. They worship at the altar of creativity, which really means 'originality': The most dangerous word in the lexicon of advertising
David Ogilvy
#38. The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#39. What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially of a painting-by how widely and how well it is reproduced?
Daniel J. Boorstin
#40. By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.
Sheila Jackson Lee
#41. First, measure the right things, and then measure them right.
Pearl Zhu
#42. Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the gap between the actual and the virtual will enable to to experience, if not a genuine poem - no such thing - a place for the genuine, whatever that might mean.
Ben Lerner
#43. Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We shall measure the good health of this group by the number of its delinquents. Nothing is more immobilizing than the spirit of deference.
Jean Dubuffet
#44. In a way," I said to him, "that now you're talking about hardly exists. We feel it, but it's impossible to measure. The past is always eating up the present.
Siri Hustvedt
#45. One must believe neither the people of the palace, who ordinarily measure the power of the king by the shape of his crown, which, being round, has no end, nor those who, in the excesses of an indiscreet zeal, proclaim themselves openly as partisans of Rome.
Cardinal Richelieu
#46. And it was one of these observers who designed the tests and simulations carried out on Old Earth during the last three centuries of its exile in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud to better explain our species to them and measure the empathy of which we are capable.
Dan Simmons
#48. You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points.
Paulo Coelho
#49. The stars are far brighter Than gems without measure, The moon is far whiter Than silver in treasure; The fire is more shining On hearth in the gloaming Than gold won by mining, So why go a-roaming? O! Tra-la-la-lally Come back to the Valley.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#50. As will so often be the case when a men has a pen in his hand. It is like a club or sledge-hammer, in using which, either for defence or attack, a man can hardly measure the strength of the blows he gives.
Anthony Trollope
#51. Do mortal fools still measure the increments leading to their deaths, wagering pleasures against costs, persisting in the delusion that deeds have value, that the world and all the gods sit in judgment over every decision made or not made?
Steven Erikson
#52. By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell.
Robert Wilson
#53. Profound question is how do you measure the non-skills component of what goes on in schools: values, curiosity, critical thinking, and so on. That's very tough. Maybe everything worthwhile can't be measured.
Nicholas Lemann
#54. Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.
Edith Wharton
#55. Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#56. 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
#57. Breath is perhaps the first thing we have in life. It's how we measure the starting of life and it's how we measure the ending of life.
Paul Harvey
#58. Measure what you can, evaluate what you measure, and appreciate that you cannot measure the vast majority of what you do. And at least every once in a while, make time to take a step back and think about what you are doing.
Ed Catmull
#59. For citizens to become fully engaged in holding their leadership to account, accurate information is required to see where action is needed, to measure the results of policies and programmes, to build support for courageous decisions and to consolidate political legitimacy.
Mo Ibrahim
#60. I measure the success of my work by the way I feel about a film before anyone else has seen it. I think I can trust myself to know when the work is good and deep and interesting and when it isn't.
Sara Blecher
#61. My photographs tried to find the politicians at their most wary, most vulnerable, and perhaps most truthful moments. I wanted the photographs to reveal the person through stance and stare, when he or she was most reflective or off guard, in order to measure the person and event unfolding.
Jerome Liebling
#62. Time never changes - only we change. We measure the changes of our lives and think that we are measuring time. We are just measuring the movement of the earth.
Debasish Mridha
#63. So many times we look for those things in life we can measure ... The college degree, the money we earn, the success we brag about ... But the little things in life, the minute moments ... not taken for granted, the value of their treasure is substantial all the more.
Samuel S. Sumner
#64. If you're going to be successful, you better have a goal, you better find really good people, better understand where all the money's coming from. And you better measure the living daylights out of it.
Rick Scott
#65. I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective
the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#66. I work with the macro economy, which involves the major variables that measure the health of the whole economy, such as total consumption, investment, income, employment, and inflation.
Clive Granger
#67. I think the presidency is a bad way to measure the effective campaign finance, because in the presidency, there is so much publicity, there's so much money floating around.
David Brooks
#68. In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won.
Marcus Buckingham
#69. There are some people who seem to think that the way you reduce the cost of living in this country is for the state to spend more and more taxpayers' money. It is as if somehow you measure the compassion of the government by the amount of other people's money it can spend.
David Cameron
#70. God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#71. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
Ezra Pound
#72. You don't realize how big somebody was in your life, until you measure the space of their absence.
Christina L. Rozelle
#73. I thought that loving someone acted as a kind of protective measure, like they'd understand the scale and intensity of your feelings and act accordingly. That seemed fair to me, as if fairness were a measure the universe cared anything about.
Emma Cline
#74. Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when instinct functions? For in this pure action, this pure moving of the bird, there is no time, no space, but only the free doing-being of this very moment -now!
Peter Matthiessen
#75. Nature does at least what she can to translate into visible form the wealth of the creative formula. By the vastness of the abysses into which she penetrates, in the effort
the unsuccessful effort
to house and contain the eternal thought, we may measure the greatness of the divine mind.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#76. What you measure affects what you do. If you don't measure the right thing, you don't do the right thing.
Joseph Stiglitz
#77. You can measure the true strength of a man by how well he controls others, but you measure his true power by how well he controls himself
Amari Soul
#78. To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
John Lyly
#79. The uncertainty principle "protects" quantum mechanics. Heisenberg recognized that if it were possible to measure the momentum and the position simultaneously with a greater accuracy, the quantum mechanics would collapse. So he proposed that it must be impossible.
Richard Feynman
#80. Who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
Virginia Woolf
#81. How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.
Alan Page
#82. The ordinary saying is, Count money after your father; so the same prudence adviseth to measure the ends of all counsels, though uttered by never so intimate a friend.
Frances Osborne
#83. That's the heart of this entire concept. Clients do not buy 'things'. They buy the experiences that those 'things' are able to deliver. And, when so doing, they measure the benefits against the costs. Which leads us directly to consider: what is a value proposition?
Cindy Barnes
#84. You don't really measure the year until the whole year is done. I'm sure there are some concerned people, including the coaches right now.
Dan Gable
#85. But in those moments when disappointment is washing over us and we're desperately trying to get our heads and hearts around what is or is not going to be, the death of our expectations can be painful beyond measure. The
Brene Brown
#86. What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.
Galileo Galilei
#87. Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autonomy, he listens for one particular word. That word is 'federal.' Anyone who will say he favors Kurdish federalism can be counted a friend of the Kurds.
Timothy Noah
#88. Size doesn't define your beauty and intelligence. Appearance doesn't measure the goodness of your heart and the hidden joy of your soul.
Angelica Hopes
#89. The Lord has set no limits on what He is willing to teach us and give us. We are the only ones who set limits
through our neglect our disobedience or ignorance. We are in large measure the ones who determine what we will learn and experience in mortality, and what we will receive eternally.
Sheri L. Dew
#91. You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
Milan Kundera
#92. 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
#93. Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer.
Jon Postel
#94. You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
Yoko Ono
#95. An automobile piston should be round; but this phrase means nothing unless there is a way to measure the roundness of a particular piston.
David Salsburg
#96. I believe that the things we put numbers on are not necessarily the things that count the most. you can't measure the stuff that makes us human.
Lynda Mullaly Hunt
#97. Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.
Samuel Chase
#98. It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present".
D. V. Ager
#99. For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.
John Sweeney
#100. Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.
Edward Thorndike
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