Measured Quotes

#1. The power of a woman was different, he decided: sly, fearless, changeable as the moods of the sea, but he knew instinctively that that was the power against which his own would be measured.

Dalene Matthee

#2. Success is not measured on what you earn, it is how you manage to be happy, benevolent and contented with your life.

Sherwin Salinas

#3. Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.

George Monbiot

#4. The writer is an infantryman. He knows that progress is measured in yards of dirt extracted from the enemy one day, one hour, one minute at a time and paid for in blood. The artist wears combat boots.

Steven Pressfield

#5. Success is when you try to achieve your inward vision externally and have it come off the way you see it. Then YOU feel successful about it; that's how success is measured.

George Lucas

#6. You sick piece of shit," Adam says to him, his voice low, measured.
"Such unfortunate language." Warner shakes his head. "Only those who cannot express themselves intelligently would resort to such crude substitutions in vocabulary.

Tahereh Mafi

#7. My happiness is measured against my kids' happiness - when they're in a good place, I feel really good.

Michelle Obama

#8. Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning.

Alfie Kohn

#9. My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

George Eliot

#10. Soon there would be a final morning, a final afternoon, a final sunrise. She measured her life by these thoughts and then reprimanded herself for not simply enjoying such pleasures while she still could.

Alastair Reynolds

#11. You're art that cannot be concealed ... danger that cannot be tamed ... love that cannot be measured ... a new law that denies a probable outcome.

Amy A. Bartol

#12. Finally coming to terms with Fathers Day. I blow as a Dad. I get it. No, I'm not an evil, abusive Father, it's just that while all my intentions and thoughts have been out of love for my kids, my actions and behaviour never measured up.

Geoffrey Hill

#13. A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Tony Robbins

#14. My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.

Markus Zusak

#15. The universe conspires to steer one in the direction where one can flourish. Bad or good the experience will be a lesson and a lesson learned is fortune measured by wisdom gained.

Sal Martinez

#16. True leadership is measured by what happens after you die.

Myles Munroe

#17. The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop people. This ability is not measured by any of our conventional yardsticks of economic success; yet, is the final measurement.

Peter Drucker

#18. Real progress cannot be measured by money alone. We must ensure that economic growth contributes to our quality of life, rather than degrading it

Tony Blair

#19. Speed of love is measured in blushes per hour.

Vikrmn

#20. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

Michel De Montaigne

#21. I was ... labelled as an advocate because ... I measured something.

Jeremy Jackson

#22. I'm of those who believe that excesses in all matters are not a good idea, whether it's formation of bubbles, whether it's excess in the financial market, whether it's excess of inequality, it has to be watched, it has to be measured, and it has to be anticipated in terms of consequences.

Christine Lagarde

#23. Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#24. There is a love so fierce it cannot be measured. A heart so strong it will never slow. There is a promise so sure it can never lie. And we promise that love forever. Forever and always

Jay McLean

#25. I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.

Michael Arad

#26. The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.

John F. Kennedy

#27. success is not always measured in terms of dollars earned or turnover. It is measured in terms of the difference you have made to the people around you.

Ravi Subramanian

#28. The value of an ambitious goal is not measured by what it will bring to you. The worth of a goal is measured by what it will make of you in the process of following and attaining it.

Ralph Marston

#29. A prime number is one (which is) measured by a unit alone.

Euclid

#30. The disappointing second novel is measured against the brilliant first novel - often no novel lives up to the first. Literary improvement seems like an unfair expectation.

Billy Collins

#31. The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

Coretta Scott King

#32. Remember that your real wealth can be measured not by what you have, but by what you are.

Napoleon Hill

#33. The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel ... its poverty by how little.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#34. When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.

Idris Elba

#35. Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.

Denis Waitley

#36. Greatness is measured not in your achievements but in the things you have overcome.

Kevin Michaels

#37. Real success or victory is measured by the quality of that very process of attention and mindful involvement, practice, and commitment.

Chungliang Al Huang

#38. Our love for the dead, like a floating iceberg, can only be measured by the depths of our resentments.

Rosario Ferre

#39. It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

Orlando Gibbons

#40. I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that can't settle, refusing to sit still and be measured; and as if the atom were an impulsive thing always changing its mind.

D.H. Lawrence

#41. Love isn't measured in chances, Landen. When you love someone, there isn't a limit. As long as you keep trying, I will keep loving you. I don't know if I could stop.

Caisey Quinn

#42. If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

#43. Success is not measured by who gets credit. Success is measured by what gets done.

Connie Morella

#44. Just measured my thing. It has grown one centimetre. I might be needing it soon.

Sue Townsend

#45. Ultimately, your economy has to be measured in the real eyes of real people, not simply in statistics that appear in newspapers about the unemployment rate and so forth.

Marco Rubio

#46. There were millions of different infinities and they weren't only measured in time, but in people. And in each one, I could find a reason to matter forever.

Mackie Burt

#47. I wish we lived in a world where actions were measured by the intentions behind them. But the truth is, they're measured by their consequences.

Blake Crouch

#48. The depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.

Frank E. Peretti

#49. 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

#50. In our society, unless something can be measured then it doesn't exist. This is especially true in the world of medicine.

Michael Perkins

#51. said, "What gets measured, gets managed." In the case of our thoughts, what gets observed, gets managed.

Martin Meadows

#52. He that measures not himselfe, is measured.

George Herbert

#53. Great books are weighted and measured by their style and matter, and not the trimmings and shadings of their grammar.

Mark Twain

#54. Our love cannot be measured, it just is.

John Paul Stevens

#55. Perhaps the moral ambiguity of money is most plainly evidenced in the popular belief that money itself has value and that the worth of other things or of men is somehow measured in monetary terms, rather than the other way around.

William Stringfellow

#56. Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the stress and strain of meeting those goals

Spencer W. Kimball

#57. I gather we're old friends."
"By my standards. I daresay you measure your friends by the years you have known them, but you're wrong. Friendship is not measured in years.

Amanda Hemingway

#58. There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.

Dee Dee Myers

#59. I want a long life, measured not in days and years but the moments that we spent together

Sapan Saxena

#60. Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure . . . will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. LUKE 6:38

Norman Vincent Peale

#61. The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.

Oswald Chambers

#62. Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.

Epictetus

#63. He was the standard against which all others were measured.

Rebecca Flanders

#64. Anything that can be measured can be improved

Michael Dell

#65. Love has no limitations. It cannot be measured. It has no boundaries. Although many have tried, love is indefinable.

Steve Maraboli

#66. Such
times are rare, such times are fleeting, but always bright when caught, measured, hung, and later regarded
in times of adversity, there in the kinder halls of memory, against the flapping of the flames.

Roger Zelazny

#67. SUCCESS does not mean an absence of problems, it is overcoming problems. Success is not measured by how high we go up in life, but how many times we bounce back when we fall down.

Shiv Khera

#68. The two men stared at each other. Assumptions were made, judgments rendered, dicks measured.

Jennifer Estep

#69. It would be a very sharp & trying experience to me to think that I have an affliction which God never sent me, that the bitter cup was never filled by his hand, that my trials were never measured out by him, nor sent to me by his arrangement of their weight and quantity.

Charles Spurgeon

#70. One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike
and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

Albert Einstein

#71. The point is to savor and treasure every moment, every breath. They are precious because they are limited. Nothing in abundance is ever held dear. It's cast off without any thought whatsoever. But happiness, victory, and life are sacred because they are fleeting and stingily measured.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#72. True movies will never be measured by how much they make - they'll be measured by how they make you feel.

Kevin Costner

#73. When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics, we shall rarely have a failure. When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of performance accelerates.

Thomas S. Monson

#74. At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

Charles Darwin

#75. My parenting success is measured in the two inches my child raises his chin, upon hearing me speak of him.

Garry Fitchett

#76. For the record, my cock can only be measured in decibels from the screams of the female it pleasures

Dannika Dark

#77. For Chips, like some old sea captain, still measured time by the signals of the past ...

James Hilton

#78. The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

James A. Baldwin

#79. In the end, the extent of our own success will be measured by the accomplishments we have helped create in others.

Greg Reid

#80. Time is everything. Anything you want, anything you accomplish - pleasure, success, fortune - is measured in time.

Joyce Hall

#81. [S]ongs must be measured by their utility. Any jaunty little tune that can get you from one point to another as you drive, or get you through the dishes, or that can illuminate or dignify your courting, I always appreciate.
-interview, 1995

Leonard Cohen

#82. The sensors measured everything that Clark could think to measure, including the pressure on the engine. They passed these measurements up to the programmable logic controllers. The

Michael Lewis

#83. The truth about life and lie about life is not measured by others but by your intuition, which never lies.

Santosh Kalwar

#84. I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.

William Vickrey

#85. Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.

Watchman Nee

#86. Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has.

Eloisa James

#87. What gets measured gets managed.

Peter Drucker

#88. It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years.

Tim Bray

#89. The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day conduct.

Blaise Pascal

#90. Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.

Henry David Thoreau

#91. One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.

Eckhart Tolle

#92. It is always the same. Whether you are walking or going by train, the way always seems shorter the second time than the first. (And that is true of distances that are not to be measured in miles and yards.)

Erich Kastner

#93. The price of change is measured by our will and courage, our persistence, in the face of difficulty.

Peter Block

#94. Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you make to it.

John Owen

#95. Cities are the huge central dynamos of all being. The power of a man can be measured today by the mile, the number of miles between him and the city; that is, between him and what the city stands for
the centre of mass.

Gerald Stanley Lee

#96. The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others.

Kingman Brewster Jr.

#97. Where the subject lies so far beyond our reach, the difference between the highest and the lowest of human understandings may indeed be calculated as infinitely small; yet the degree of weakness may perhaps be measured by the degree of obstinacy and dogmatic confidence.

Edward Gibbon

#98. The value of an opinion is only measured by its user. It's ironic that the value of a fact is only measured by its observer.

Lionel Suggs

#99. The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.

Andy Stanley

#100. Women's status in society has become the standard by which humanity's progress toward civility and peace can be measured."-Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images

Mahnaz Afkhami