Measure You Life Quotes

#1. In life, there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way you measure distance between two points. "Time" doesn't pass.

Paulo Coelho

#2. Enough already with your macho bullcrap. I am sick to death of men telling me how to run my life. In case you didn't notice, I have a whole bevy of men downstairs just dying to tell me how I don't measure up. The last thing I need is another one.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.

Ben Ames Williams

#4. In foster care it's easier to measure what you've lost over what you have gained, because it there aren't many gains in that life and you are a prisoner to someone else's plans for your life.

John William Tuohy

#5. The only measure of your success is in the number of people you have help.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#6. 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

#7. Once in a while, life gives you a chance to measure your worth. Sometimes you're called upon to make a split-second decision to do the right thing, defining which way your life will go. These are the decisions that make you who you are.

Perry Moore

#8. Measure a man by his actions fully from the beginning to the end. Don't take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I'm about because you know better than that.

Tupac Shakur

#9. You know, it's weird. It's - it hasn't really changed my life in any kind of way that I can measure. I mean, it's obviously such an insanely amazing thing. You know, none of my other records I've ever had before even broke into the top 100.

Mark Ronson

#10. If you are like me, you may have strong longings from time to time for the mighty working of the holy Spirit in your life...But what I have found most often in my own life is the failure to open myself to the full measure of the Spirit's work by believing the promises of God.

John Piper

#11. Success is not money, cars, fame or material possessions but the lives you touched positively.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#12. Measure your life by the product and value you produce daily

Sunday Adelaja

#13. Its actually really important that you succeed at what youre succeeding at, but that isnt going to be the measure of your life.

Clayton Christensen

#14. The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and
respect yourself.

Brian Tracy

#15. Any idea that takes away sweet sleeps from you will eventually bring to you sweet life. Be diligent and willing to stay awake until your good is better and your better becomes excellent!

Israelmore Ayivor

#16. It's not what you get, but what you give that is God's true measure of a life.

Elizabeth George

#17. Life makes fools of us all sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, it's our own expectations that crush us.
from Skippy Dies

Paul Murray

#18. In 1982, I wrote in my diary that life is motion, not joy. If the way you measure success in life is by how much joy it brings you, you're measuring inaccurately. Life is also sadness, defeat, striving. It is many things.

Mario Cuomo

#19. The only thing you can justifiably claim that life owes you is an equal measure of what you have given out. And even that is debatable.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#20. It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.

Christopher Paolini

#21. How do you measure the life of one person against the greater good? Can it ever be the right thing to sacrifice an innocent person? And how do you know what the greater good really is?

Amy Engel

#22. As far as they're conserned, I've been kind of a poor second best all my life, or I don't qualify at all compared to my brother. It's rough being around them and feeling like you never measure up. Collin

Danielle Steel

#23. If you don't measure up to your expectations, realize that you should just be life without expectations.

Frederick Lenz

#24. The measure of life is not what you have done for yourself, but what you have done for others.

Debasish Mridha

#25. As I've moved along - not only my life, but my career and things like that - you look at yourself and start going, 'Oh, man, are you still doing what you set out to do? Are the ideals you had still the same?' Sometimes you measure up and sometimes you don't.

Amos Lee

#26. How many people you bless is how you measure success

Rick Ross

#27. The measure of a life well lived is how many good dogs you can fit into it.
[or cats]

Marion Lennox

#28. Determine a single measure that you can use to grade your progress and success in each area of your life. Refer to it daily.

Brian Tracy

#29. You don't realize how big somebody was in your life, until you measure the space of their absence.

Christina L. Rozelle

#30. In modern times, if the sole measure of what's out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#31. It is important in life not to be strong, but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once. If you want something in life, reach out and grab it.

Christopher McCandless

#32. I believe one should never invalidate another, even if you don't agree. No one is ever 100% right or 100% wrong. There is always some measure of truth on both sides. - L. R. W. Lee

L.R.W. Lee

#33. Then, you were always captivated by self-sacrifice. However admirable, your eagerness to give your life over to another person may have been due in some measure to the fact that when your life was wholly in your lap you didn't know what to do with it. Self-sacrifice was an easy way out.

Lionel Shriver

#34. I don't know, and have no intention of finding out. IQ is like dick size - if you have to measure, you're way too invested in it. And both are gauche to discuss in polite company. (Upon being asked his IQ on Quora)

Adrian Lamo

#35. Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Warren Buffett

#36. You are capable beyond measure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#37. Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us.

Paul Murray

#38. 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

#39. The measure of life is not defined by how much you are earning, but how much you are giving back.

Debasish Mridha

#40. You get one pass at life. That's all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

John Piper

#41. Spiritual maturity is not measured by the years that you have spent in church, rather by your attitude before people different from you.

Paul Gitwaza

#42. A mission statement is not something you write overnight ... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

Stephen Covey

#43. Do not feel bad because of it. It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishment.

Christopher Paolini

#44. You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.

John Henry Newman

#45. Not only are we reading life code, we're beginning to copy it through cloning, and we're beginning to write, and in the measure that we do that, boy, you can build a lot of very powerful companies in a short period of time.

Juan Enriquez

#46. I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom.

Dylan Moran

#47. You will never have to talk religion to anyone; men will see it talking in your life! You will radiate a positive influence at all times, which will in turn bring you happiness and health in good measure.

Albert E Cliffe

#48. Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them.

Peter Drucker

#49. So you choose to measure by the only standard that allows your life to be meaningless?

Orson Scott Card

#50. You are an unusual, brilliant child who has not seen enough of life to grasp the full measure of human stupidity.

Ayn Rand

#51. How do you measure someone's life? By the scope of their accomplishments, or the number of people they've touched, or by the width of a hand? None of it seemed fair. None of it seemed like enough.

Yvonne Woon

#52. You shun your spirit,' he murmured, 'every time you agree to sell your days to the city, to measure out your life at the city's pace.

Martin Amis

#53. I measure the coffee exactly. Pour in the water. As the flavor bursts, she surrenders. "Oh, you are old for such a long time!" She frets over the sugar bowl in the center of a tin tray. "You think it won't happen to you, but it will. You may live a long time, but most of life is old, old, old!

Brock Cole

#54. I would say that the quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's commitment of excellence and victory - whether it be football, whether it be business, whether it be politics or government or what have you.

Vince Lombardi

#55. No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.

Sara Zarr

#56. Measure your life not by its longevity but by the differences you have made with your creativity and beauty.

Debasish Mridha

#57. Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

Ann Voskamp

#58. Stop trying to 'fix' yourself; you're NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure.

Steve Maraboli

#59. I'm at a point in my life where I have three kids. I'm a father, and you start to take stock and measure yourself as a man and see where there's room for growth.

Greg Bryk

#60. The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people. That's the biggest thing to think about if you're not happy.

Clayton Christensen

#61. Effectiveness in life is a measure of how many products you are able to produce in life

Sunday Adelaja

#62. Nearly every aspect of life was subject to some measure of legal restraint. At a local level, you could be fined for letting your ducks wander in the road, for misappropriating town gravel, for having a guest in your house without a permit from the local bailiff.

Bill Bryson

#63. Life is short is what some niggaz said; not if you measure life - by how one lives and what he did.

Nas

#64. Measure your day not by the money you're earning but by the unconditional love that you're giving away.

Debasish Mridha

#65. I really think in life there is a lot of mystery and things we just can't understand, so your brain has to adapt. We all have to deal with the twists of fate whether they are explained or not and it's how you react in life to these curveballs that is really the measure of a man.

Larry Fessenden

#66. For Alice, of course, the measure of how you held up in the face of a life-threatening illness was not how much you changed but how much you stayed the same, in control of your own identity.

Calvin Trillin

#67. Thank you ... for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.

Richard Matheson

#68. When you get to my age, you'll measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. That's the ultimate test of how you've lived your life.

Warren Buffett

#69. Never measure your life by possessions. Measure it by the hearts you've touched, the smiles you created & the love you shared.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#70. He will not, I think, find it logical to live with what he has done today. I have told him that you are his responsibility. While he believes that, he will continue to protect you. I tell you this, so that you will understand what is happening. He will measure his life by your helplessness.

Dorothy Dunnett

#71. Measure of life is not by its duration but by the amount of love you gave away without expectations.

Debasish Mridha

#72. Maybe that's all life was, this impossibly complicated helix of choice and accident, things you could control and couldn't. And when the day was done, the only measure of success was how happy you were, how much you loved and were loved.

Lisa Unger

#73. Do you believe, man of this time, that laughter is lower than worship? Where is your measure, false measurer? The sum of life decides in laughter and in worship, not your judgment.

C. G. Jung

#74. As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.

Joseph Prince

#75. Measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. Warren Buffet

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#76. You cannot be healthy and happy without discipline. If you want to measure the level of happiness in your life, just measure the level of discipline in your life. You will never have more happiness than you have discipline.

Matthew Kelly

#77. I think you can measure how pathetic your life is by how much joy you get from learning about other people's faults and troubles.

Bradford Winters

#78. You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

Ted Koppel

#79. The measure of life is not by success you achieve, but by the donation you made without expectation to receive.

Debasish Mridha

#80. Measure of life is not by the wealth or splendor but by the love you have given away.

Debasish Mridha

#81. Using someone else's ruler to measure your self-worth will always leave you short.

Charles F. Glassman

#82. 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

#83. 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

#84. The measure of life is not by its duration, but by the difference that you have made in this world.

Debasish Mridha

#85. Richness, in the final measure, is not weighed in gold coins, but in the number of people you have touched, the tears of those who mourn your passing, and the fond remembrances of those who continue to celebrate your life.

R.A. Salvatore

#86. 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

#87. Don't measure life against time. Measure life by the milestones you have reached.

Debasish Mridha

#88. In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

Steve Wozniak

#89. Amount of freedom you have in your life is not the measure of the worth of your life. Just as safety is an empty and even self-defeating goal to live for, so ultimately is autonomy.

Atul Gawande

#90. But let's be honest. Real good can come from never missing Sunday-morning worship. Real good comes from guarding what you watch. Good can come from guarding your life in these ways. But as a means to or measure of our righteousness? These things will always fall short.

Matt Chandler

#91. Ah, Fitz, you should know by now that every moment of my life is spent dancing. And with every partner, I tread a different measure.

Robin Hobb

#92. Don't allow money to become the yardstick by which you measure the worth of the world around you!

Andrew James Pritchard

#93. Measure your life not by years but by adventures.

Debasish Mridha

#94. How to measure a life's worth? The important thing, said Paloma one day, is not the fact of dying, it is what you are doing in the moment of your death.

Muriel Barbery

#95. The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.

Wayne Dyer

#96. I am not given to making sense out of life - or coming up with some grand narrative on it - other than to measure it by what you think you want to do in life. As for me, I have done what I had wanted to, to the best of my ability. I am satisfied.

Lee Kuan Yew

#97. If you give your life as a prayer, you intensify the prayer beyond all measure.

Peace Pilgrim

#98. Before you came into my life,
I believed that God had abandoned me.
Now I know that He has blessed me beyond measure.
-sir Bannor-

Teresa Medeiros

#99. You don't measure life by receiving awards.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#100. You can't measure love by time put in, but the weight of those moments. Some in life are light, like a touch. Others, you can't help but stagger beneath.

Sarah Dessen