Top 100 Measured Quotes
#1. The world is full of wonders that cannot be measured. That is why they are wonders.
David Liss
#2. Success shouldn't be measured by how much you have but by how much you give back.
Danny Villanueva
#3. Most of us discover early on that it's safer to hide behind prayers that can't be measured, petitions so nebulous they don't require intervention from God.
Margaret Feinberg
#4. Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.
Carly Fiorina
#5. In contrast to the troposphere, the stratosphere is extremely dry and practically cloudless - the concentration of water vapor is measured in parts per million and is, in fact, comparable to that of ozone.
Mario J. Molina
#6. 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
#7. If you use a standard called "biological value" to rate protein sources ... soy finishes far below eggs, milk, fish, beef and chicken. The food with the highest biological value ever measured is whey protein ...
Lou Schuler
#8. True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.
Larry Wall
#9. The ancient Egyptians believed the god Anubis met each of us on the other side, and that he stood before a great scale on which our hearts were set. There each was weighed, tested, for its worth.
Was this the heart I wanted measured?
Victor LaValle
#10. Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan Perlis
#11. The next time someone chides you for using your intuition, inform them that you are just checking in with the 96 percent of the universe that can't be counted up, analyzed or measured.
Catherine Carrigan
#12. 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
#13. Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
Raymond Chandler
#14. Chrissy," she said. Her voice was quiet, measured. I thought I detected something in it, some new emotion. Fear. "Describe Ben to me.
S.J. Watson
#15. I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
T. S. Eliot
#16. By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#17. My first impulse is not to grab her or kiss her or yell at her. I simple want to touch her cheek, still flushed from the night's performance. I want to cut through the space that separates us, measured in feet-not miles, not continents, not years-and to take a callused finger to her face.
Gayle Forman
#18. It is man who has fallen, not the beasts: that is the message even for the irreligious, and to some extent salvation can be measured by his very treatment of them.
Roy Fuller
#19. The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.
Earl Warren
#20. Trade the dream of overnight success for slow, measured growth. It's hard, but you have to be patient. You have to grind it out. You have to do it for a long time before the right people notice.
Jason Fried
#21. 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
#22. There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,
is, in form as well as substance, poetry; and a volume which should contain the condensed wisdom of mankind need not have one rhythmless line.
Henry David Thoreau
#23. Mastery of yoga is really measured by how it influences our day-to-day living, how it enhances our relationships, how it promotes clarity and peace of mind.
T. K. V. Desikachar
#24. A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers.
J.C. Ryle
#25. But it's our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it's no good, it's still ours. That's what makes it ours- being born on it, working it, dying on it. That makes ownership, not a paper with numbers on it.
John Steinbeck
#26. Whoever said death couldn't be measured was wrong. Death was a football field. Death was a sprint. Death was measurable distance I wasn't fast enough to reach.
M.R. Merrick
#27. A truly radical change is self-relating: it changes the very coordinates by means of which we measure change. In other words, a true change sets its own standards: it can only be measured by criteria that result from it.
Slavoj Zizek
#28. Wealth of a heart is measured not by how much love it received, but by how much it gave away without expectation.
Debasish Mridha
#29. the preferable way to treat one another is with love and kindness; that pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity; and that somehow, as human beings, we are all connected spiritually.
Christopher Moore
#30. There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.
Erma Bombeck
#31. The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.
Soichiro Honda
#32. Those stories helped me realize that, although tragedy and loss are regrettably commonplace, we aren't measured by what happens to us but rather by how we respond to it.
Steve Pemberton
#33. A testimony of the hope of redemption is something which cannot be measured or counted. Jesus Christ is the source of that hope.
Boyd K. Packer
#34. Motherhood runs its own way and is measured with another watch that, unfortunately, we can't control.
Monica Cruz
#35. All too often we fail to ask what we are trying to sustain. Ultimately, sustainability must be measured by the endurance of thriving human communities.
Barton Seaver
#36. Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction.
Saul David
#37. 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
#38. The greatness of a man is only measured by his urologist.
Bob Saget
#39. That prevailed before his time. National wealth was measured in terms of a country's stock
Adam Smith
#40. What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment.
Max Brooks
#41. Success is measured by the memories you create.
Thomas Keller
#42. Christian growth is never measured by a Christian's satisfaction in himself.
Tony Reinke
#43. I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.
Anita Roddick
#44. The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
Chester A. Arthur
#45. The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.
Richard P. Feynman
#46. A good reputation is measured by how much you can improve the lives of others.
George Eastman
#47. 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
#48. Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the term. It was where I came from, what I really understood, the base against which all else was measured.
Bill Bryson
#49. Nothing exists until it is measured.
Niels Bohr
#50. The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.
Henry Ward Beecher
#51. 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
#52. Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very accurately measured originally; but the laws have later been found to apply over much wider ranges of observations and much more accurately than the original data justified.
Richard Hamming
#53. The strength of our relationships is measured by how much people can count on us.
Michael Hyatt
#54. This tremendous friction which cannot, as in mechanics, be reduced to a few points, is everywhere in contact with chance, and brings about effects that cannot be measured just because they are largely due to chance ...
Carl Von Clausewitz
#55. The mission has not yet run its course. Don't limit your actions in pursuit of success. Take a measured course and a wide berth within your lines of operation. Show us all what you are capable of.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#56. Success or failure cannot be measured by any human standard.
Billy Graham
#57. My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.
Al-Shafi'i
#59. As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured. - New York, Sept. 26, 2007
George W. Bush
#60. Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.
Sloane Crosley
#61. But only the witnesses feel fear, a maddening fear, for what they could bring to light is even larger than the sun that is measured and gauged and set down down in a study.
Ingeborg Bachmann
#62. Judi, a person's worth isn't measured by her utility. We're not tools. We're here to think. To feel. To be good to each other
John Dufresne
#63. Effort is measured by setting goals and getting results.
Mark Cuban
#64. A journey is measured in friends, not miles.
Tim Cahill
#65. My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in shape has become the imperative of our middle age. The heaviest burden of guilt we carry into our forties is flab. Our sense of failure is measured by the grade on a stress test.
Ellen Goodman
#66. But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.
Henry David Thoreau
#67. Like his fellow genius, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis has redefined the nature of fantasy, adding richness beauty, and dimension ... In our times, every fantasy realm must be measured in comparison with Narnia.
Lloyd Alexander
#68. Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations.
Richard P. Feynman
#69. I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
Charles Kuralt
#70. The perfectly measured burr of a dispassionate detective had suddenly changed into the explosive boom of a take-no-shit street cop.
Suffice it to say, I froze.
Cleo Coyle
#71. Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.
Ted Koppel
#72. Upon that foreign soil he chose
Died he! For ever laid
Low, in the kindly shade,
He left behind no tearless grief,
No measured mourning, dull and brief,
These eyes are wet
With weeping yet,
Nor know I how to find relief."
Antigone
Sophocles
#73. The problem with Prosperity Theology is not that it promises too much, but that it aims for so little. What God promises us in Christ is far above anything that can be measured in earthly wealth - and believers are not promised earthly wealth nor the gift of health.
Albert Mohler
#74. I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.
Hale Irwin
#75. MEASURED IN THE BLOOD spilt in leadership challenges or the bile spewed daily in parliament, the developed world's most stable economy has produced the most volatile and petty politics.
Nick Bryant
#76. The worthiness of any cause is not measured by its clean record, but by its readiness to see the blots when they are pointed out, and to change its mind.
Aldo Leopold
#77. When it was time to talk about Warcraft we took our time, we knew what the story was going to be, we had a field general in Duncan Jones. Same thing with Godzilla, we kind of measured twice, cut once.
Thomas Tull
#78. Politics and war were just different names for power, and the price of power was predictably high and could be precisely measured-in dollards,yen,euros,rubles,riyals, and blood.
Tara Janzen
#79. Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.
Joseph Joubert
#80. 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
#81. Whether a man lives or dies in vain can be measured only by the way he faces his own problems, by the success or failure of the inner conflict within his own soul. And of this no one may know save God.
James Bryant Conant
#82. A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.
Gabrielle Zevin
#83. 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
#84. As we got older, their mischiefs continued to be shrugged off, but mine were not, and I knew from that point that I was measured from a different stick than my brothers.
Mary E. Pearson
#85. True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.
Cesar Chavez
#86. My happiness is measured in Inches, 2, 4, 6, 8, ... I LOVE SHOES TOO MUCH ...
Veronica Franco
#87. Tis true my form is something odd But blaming me is blaming God Could I create myself anew I would not fail in pleasing you. If I could reach from pole to pole Or grasp the ocean with a span I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the man.
Isaac Watts
#89. The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
Susan Sontag
#90. In short, health is measured by the shock a person can take without his usual way of life being compromised
Moshe Feldenkrais
#91. 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
#92. The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
#93. Success is not always measured by what one becomes but often by what one overcomes.
Beverly Gandara
#94. Success need not always be measured in economic terms. It has to be measured in quality of life.
Sadghuru
#95. Intelligence is not found when you have a plan, rather it's measured when you have no clue what you're doing.
Charlie 'Gale'
#96. The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader's true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.
Simon Sinek
#97. How true,' returned the measured, featureless voice. 'I would chuckle in amused agreement, but the laughter switches of my translator have been malfunctioning for the past six hours. You understand.'
'Certainly,' I said. And somehow felt much more comfortable.
Samuel R. Delany
#98. 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
#99. The value of a person's life is measured by the amount of people they touch in living it.
Scott Hildreth
#100. Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take your breath away - anon
Scarlett Flame
