Top 100 Quotes About The Measure
#1. He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross.
J.C. Ryle
#2. But I did what I thought was right in the moment. In the end, that's all a man has to measure his life, and it's plenty.
Justin Cronin
#3. Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals.
William E. Gladstone
#4. How can you measure the contribution that artists make to society?
John Kurtz
#5. I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a
full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy
ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.
Jim Harrison
#6. The measure of a superhero is always his nemesis.
David Lyons
#7. My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.
Hans Rosling
#8. That's another pitfall of reductionism: Until scientists have the means to isolate and measure things, they insist those things don't and can't exist, and anyone who says otherwise is ignorant an superstitious.
T. Colin Campbell
#9. Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former look to the end, to judge of the act. Let me look to the act, and leave the end with God.
Joseph Hall
#10. The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
Arthur C. Clarke
#11. I don't measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can't because I'll just end up crushed.
Drake
#12. The population of the U.S. is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on earth. By almost any measure of civilised attainment, from Nobel prize-counts on down, the U.S. leads the world by miles.
Richard Dawkins
#13. The proper measure of a philosophical system or a scientific theory is not the degree to which it anticipated modern thought, but its degree of success in treating the philosophical and scientific problems of its own day.
Steven Weinberg
#14. But there is every reason to think that the bulging cortex which would later measure stars and ice ages was still a dim, impoverished region in a skull box whose capacity was no greater than that of great apes.
Loren Eiseley
#15. The true measure of spiritual growth is not how much you've learned in the past year but how much you've grown in holiness.
Mike Bullmore
#16. Yet the penalty for sin is not determined by our measure of it. Instead, the penalty for sin is determined by the magnitude of the one sinned against.
David Platt
#17. I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there's that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I'm competitive in all aspects.
Ashton Eaton
#18. Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
Hesiod
#19. The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue.
Samuel Smiles
#20. 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
#21. The real measure of success is how one feels about being alive.
Marty Rubin
#22. The most treasured and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love. The greater the measure of our love, the greater is our joy. In the end, the development of such love is the true measure of success in life.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#23. If we could measure the damage to corporations from gossip, it might be more than the GNP of the Third World!
Harvey MacKay
#24. Chasidah. Angel. I love you beyond all measure. That is the only real truth.
Linnea Sinclair
#25. There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.
Robert Dale Owen
#26. Jesus did not come to strike a balance between grace and truth. He brought the full measure of both ... It's easy to create an all-truth church model. It may be even easier to create an all-grace model, but Jesus didn't leave either option on the table.
Andy Stanley
#27. If indeed "elegance is frigid," it can as well be described as filthy. There is no denying, at any rate, that among the elements of the elegance in which we take such delight is a measure of the unclean, the unsanitary.
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
#28. People can't measure the amount of heart you have and how much you're willing to fight for something.
Blake Griffin
#29. Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business.
John Hutton
#30. Measure of life is not by its duration but by the amount of love you gave away without expectations.
Debasish Mridha
#31. It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
Alfred Adler
#32. All science ever did was measure a teensy sliver of the universe and assume that everything else behaved the same way.
Peter Watts
#33. I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.
Warren Buffett
#34. Nothing is small or great in God's sight. Whatever He wills becomes great to us, however seemingly trifling; and if once the voice of conscience tells us that He requires anything of us, we have no right to measure its importance.
Jean Grou
#35. Experiments that measure readers' comprehension times to the thousandth of a second have shown that singular they causes little or no delay, but generic he slows them down a lot.
Steven Pinker
#36. We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.
Philip Pullman
#37. Love has a heavy load of possibilities. You can't have it without some measure of pain. They go together with an inseparable bond in this world. But it's worth it. I promise you, the treasure is worth the pain.
Miranda Shisler
#38. I think that the American people are curious about who a candidate is, what their background is, who their family is, what their faith experience has been, their education, their work experience. All of those are factors that voters look at because they want to take a measure of the individual.
Michele Bachmann
#39. English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.
Lytton Strachey
#40. Yoga is an exact science in the form of poetry when we measure the flow of neurotransmitters in the brain.
Amit Ray
#41. Though we cannot totally change our nature, we may in great measure correct it by reflection and philosophy; and some philosophy is a very necessary companion in this world, where, even to the most fortunate, the chances are greatly against happiness.
Lord Chesterfield
#42. Nobody will ever be able to understand the meaning of the measure of his own words.
Sorin Cerin
#43. Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.
Max Weber
#44. The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
Eric Hoffer
#45. Selecting the right measure and measuring things right are both art and science. And KPIs influence management behavior as well as business culture.
Pearl Zhu
#46. The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.
Carl R. Rogers
#47. We know that where community exists in confers upon its members identity, a sense of belonging, and a measure of security ... Communities are the ground-level generators and preservers of values and ethical systems.
John Gardner
#48. It is not the project but the living process that will be the measure of our actions.
David Holmgren
#49. She had not died there. A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which society would measure the quick motions of man.
E. M. Forster
#50. I thought of rhyme alone,
For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble
And make the daylight sweet once more ...
William Butler Yeats
#51. ANKER (A'NKER) n.s.[ancker, Dut.] A liquid measure chiefly used at Amsterdam. It is the fourth part of the awm, and contains two stekans: each stekan consists of sixteen mengles; the mengle being equal
Samuel Johnson
#52. Precious Savior, why do I fear your scrutiny? Yours is an examen of love. Still, I am afraid ... afraid of what may surface. Even so, I invite you to search me to the depths so that I may know myself - and you - in fuller measure. - Amen.
Richard J. Foster
#53. We often believe the truest measure of a relationship is the ability to lay ourselves bare. But there's something to be said for parading your plumage as well, finding truth as much in the silly as the severe.
David Levithan
#54. Certain people give off positive energy, others negative. It's the quality of someone's being, a measure of the love with which they've led their lives. It also reflects the inner work they've done, their efforts to heal anger, hatred, or self-loathing, which poison us like toxic fumes.
Judith Orloff
#55. If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road-so deep is its measure [logos].
Heraclitus
#56. Let me earnestly recommend ... one studio which you may freely enter and receive in liberal measure the most sure and safe instruction ... the Studio of Nature.
Asher Brown Durand
#57. No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell the remoter effects, and so to allow us to avoid such acts as attempt to remedy a present ill by sowing the seeds of a much greater ill for the future.
Ludwig Von Mises
#58. How a man perceives substance dictates the amount of substance in a man. To know the depth of anyone's true substance, simply measure the weight of what consumes and excites their inner drive.
Suzy Kassem
#59. The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.
Blaise Pascal
#60. Google is in a sense serving as a time machine, and we're just now being able to measure the effect this has on publishing, advertising, and attention.
Chris Anderson
#61. So long as I'm the president, my measure of success is victory
and success.
George W. Bush
#63. The measure of a man's estimate of your strength," he finally told them, "is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.
Isabel Wilkerson
#64. The naively cynical measure a piece of legislation, a victory, a milestone not against the past or the limits of the possible, but against their ideas of perfection...
Rebecca Solnit
#65. It is a favorite thing with infidels to set their own standard, to measure themsleves by other people. But that will not do in the Day of Judgment. Now we will use God's law as a balance weight.
Dwight L. Moody
#66. Man is the measure. That was my first lesson. Man's feet are the measure for distance, his hands are the measure for ownership, his body is the measure for all that is lovable and desirable and strong.
E. M. Forster
#67. Measure your life not by the dimension of your bank account but by the expansion of your kindness and love.
Debasish Mridha
#68. Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance; the distinctions of rich, and poor, may in a great measure be accounted for, and that without having recourse to the harsh, ill-sounding names of oppression and avarice.
Thomas Paine
#69. However, the ability to control attention is not simply a measure of intelligence; measures of efficiency in the control of attention predict performance of air traffic controllers and of Israeli Air Force pilots beyond the effects of intelligence.
Daniel Kahneman
#70. The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.
Thomas Paine
#71. The reason why we have never found measure of wealth. We never sought it.
George S. Clason
#72. We can learn that reward comes in creation and re-creation, no just in the consumption of the world around us. Active participation in the process of creation is our right and our privilege. We can learn to measure the success of our ideas not by our bank accounts by their impact on the world.
Tim Brown
#73. What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#74. We don't measure whether an economy is developing. We just measure whether companies are selling more, whether inventories are up or down, not whether the health, safety and economic well-being of people are being advanced.
Ralph Nader
#75. Measure your life not by its longevity but by the differences you have made with your creativity and beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#76. It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.
Dylan Thomas
#77. We are one in Christ; let us be friends with one another; but let us never be friends with one another's error. If I be wrong, rebuke me sternly; I can bear it, and bear it cheerfully; and if ye be wrong, expect the like measure from me, and neither peace nor parley with your mistakes.
Charles Spurgeon
#78. Man is the microcosm; man is the measure of all things; man is the image of God.
G.K. Chesterton
#79. She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.
Dave Eggers
#80. Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed.
Johannes Stark
#81. The world is big ... May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life's full measure.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#82. Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.
Margaret Atwood
#83. Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
Ernest Hemingway,
#84. Nobody has ever looked at me the way he's looking at me at this moment. Like I'm his possession. Like if anyone else were to touch me, he'd break both their legs and an arm for good measure.
A. Zavarelli
#85. I'm in love with her and I'm in love with Maxwell. I don't know if it's equal. How do you measure how much you love someone? If they were both hanging off a cliff and I could only choose one, I'd join them on the cliff and hope we could go together. I can't divide myself from them.
Amelia LeFay
#86. 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
#87. I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
Margaret Mead
#88. The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year
John Foster Dulles
#89. gazing abstractly out on the Ipswich skyline, listening to the beep of the machine. We watched nurses press buttons, shine a torch into Jena's eyes and clip her finger with a gadget to measure her pulse. Minutes ticked by with no change.
Ruth Dugdall
#90. I mean only to call attention to the fact that there is a certain measure of arbitrariness in the forms that truth-telling may take.
Neil Postman
#91. I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.
Cybill Shepherd
#92. I never use the word "cheap." Instead, I say, "more affordable." Never detract from what you can add to in measure!
C. JoyBell C.
#93. A world where a sparrow's fate and that of a man can be decided in the blink of a cat's eye, such is the true measure of time.
Abraham Verghese
#94. Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer.
Edmund Burke
#95. The measure we are aware of our need for Him is usually the measure we become aware of Him. It really is all about the Presence. It's about hosting Him.
Bill Johnson
#97. If a surface can be seen as a kind of channel through which information flows from one region of space to another, then the area of the surface is a measure of its capacity to transmit information. This is very suggestive.
Lee Smolin
#98. If you give your life as a prayer, you intensify the prayer beyond all measure.
Peace Pilgrim
#99. The principle here is that a new generation owes a measure of thanks to every member of the previous generation. Our
Amor Towles
#100. Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.
Walter Savage Landor
