Top 100 Quotes About The Measure Of A Man
#3. 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
#5. 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
#6. The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.
Neal Shusterman
#7. The measure of a man is not in how he gets knocked to the mat, it is in how he gets up.
Jeph Loeb
#8. The measure of a man is determined by how he responds to the truth of God.
Dr. J. Otis Yoder
#9. The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
#10. The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.
Walter Besant
#11. Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.
J.G. Holland
#12. I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards.
Graydon Carter
#13. The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Plato
#16. The measure of a man is what he does when he has power.
Pierce Brown
#17. The measure of a man is not so much how tall he stands but how low he kneels.
Dr. J. Otis Yoder
#18. The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
J. C. Watts
#19. The measure of a man is what happens when nothing works and you got the guts to go on.
Randall "Tex" Cobb
#20. Lipton, a professor of history at SUNY Stony Brook, concluded, "In the face of recent revelations about the reckless and self-indulgent sexual conduct of so many of our elected officials, it may be worth recalling that sexual restraint rather than sexual prowess was once the measure of a man.
Timothy J. Keller
#22. The measure of a man, she said finally, is not the words that mark his end, but everything he's done since his beginning.
T.J. Klune
#23. Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.
Marcus Aurelius
#24. Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.
William J. Clinton
#25. The measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many men he serves .
Dwight L. Moody
#26. To take the measure of a man, watch not how he treats his friends, watch how he treats a conquered foe.
Aleksandr Voinov
#27. If the measure of a man was the size of his hat, these were great men indeed.
Joe Abercrombie
#28. The measure of a man is not necessarily his title or his position, but rather how he treats others ...
Victor L. Brown
#29. The measure of a man is how he treats the women in his family.
J.D. Vance
#30. The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.
Plutarch
#31. The measure of a man's character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures.
Bill Courtney
#32. The measure of a man is in the lives he's touched.
Ernie Banks
#33. The measure of a man cannot be whether he ever makes mistakes, because he will make mistakes. It's what he does in response to his mistakes. The same is true of companies. We have to apologize, we have to fix the problem, and we have to learn from our mistakes.
Wil Shipley
#34. Let us tear down the romantic trappings that have adorned passion. Let us cease believing that the measure of a man's love lies in how stupid he has become or is willing to be.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#35. In those days, men proved their strength and manliness by being well mannered, helpful, and gentle. Just how gentle they could be under trying circumstances, how civilised they could be in a harsh world, that was the measure of a man.
Terry Lee Rioux
#36. The measure of a man, or woman, is not so much what they have accomplished, though that has weight. It often is much more though what that man or woman has overcome to accomplish what they have.
Leif Gregersen
#37. My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'
Joe Biden
#38. The measure of a man lies not in his lengthy accomplishments, but in his decisions when he is faced with the certain, indisputable knowledge that he is going to die.
Mitch Rowland
#39. As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.
Sidney Poitier
#40. I believe the measure of a man isn't just the road he's traveled; it's the choices he's made along the way.
Joe Biden
#41. The true measure of a real man is that he has the ability to admit when he is wrong, apologize, and make amends to those he wronged
Richard Ashworth
#42. The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is the most indispensable means of spiritual development, and as regards his relation to society the measure of his worth.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
#43. According to Herodotus, the ancient Persians felt that what was necessary in the background of a young man entering adulthood was his ability to ride, shoot straight, and speak the truth. Perhaps we should now grant our college degrees to young men who measure up to that standard.
Jeff Cooper
#44. The Full Measure of a man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and textures that come alive in others because of him.
Albert Schweitzer
#45. 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
#46. The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.
Lord Kelvin
#47. Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#48. The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#49. I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
Benjamin Spock
#50. We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.
John Ruskin
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.
Mike Norton
#54. There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.
James Allen
#55. A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.
Napoleon Hill
#56. You can measure a man's worth by the breed of person he throws out of his office.
Dave Sim
#57. We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment ... [it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds for the scientific method, made man the measure of all things, and placed individual consent front and center on the political stage.
James Q. Wilson
#58. The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.
Philip K. Dick
#59. The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for.
George S. Patton
#61. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. who's the fairest of them all?" "Silly question," a voice said. Emily nearly jumped out of her skin. "Fairest is a subjective measure. One man's fairest woman might be another man's ugly cow.
Christopher G. Nuttall
#65. Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.
William Wilberforce
#66. The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking.
Alessandra Torre
#67. Christianity affirms that at the heart of reality is a Heart, a loving Father who works through history for the salvation of His children. Man cannot save himself, for man is not the measure of all things and humanity is not God. Bound by the chains of his own sin and finiteness, man needs a Savior.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#68. Take a bucket, fill it with water, Put your hand in - clear up to the wrist. Now pull it out; the hole that remains Is a measure of how much you'll be missed ... . The moral of this quaint example: To do just the best that you can, Be proud of yourself, but remember, There is no Indispensible Man!24
David Brooks
#69. All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#70. Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.
Peter Latham
#71. Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#72. You can measure a man's sorrow, and the world's, in the number of stories that perish unheard.
Jacob M. Appel
#73. History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick.
Gustav Stresemann
#74. The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.
Alma Katsu
#75. The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.
Albert Einstein
#76. Whatever oppressions man has suffered, they have invariably fallen more heavily on woman. Whatever new liberties advancing civilization has brought to man, ever the smallest measure has been accorded to woman, as a result of church teaching. The effect of this is seen in every department of life.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#77. Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#78. It was some time ago - in the twelfth century, as you humani measure time - a man from the land of the Scots. I do not remember his name." Both Sophie and Josh instinctively knew that Hekate was lying. "What happened to him?" Sophie asked. "He died." There was a peculiar high-pitched giggle.
Michael Scott
#79. Spinoza wrote of the intellectual love of God, and he had a measure of truth there; but the highest love of God is not intellectual, it is spiritual. God is spirit and only the spirit of man can know Him really. In the deep spirit of a man the fire must glow or his love is not the true love of God.
A.W. Tozer
#80. Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.
James Woods
#81. It destroys and resurrects in equal measure. It's paradigm shifting. The man I was before Nada has perished and left a changeling who is lost in the delicate art of awe and humble appreciation.
Poppet
#82. A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.
John Of Salisbury
#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. It is not the ability to walk that pleases God, it is the desire to walk. The desire to do the right thing. The truest measure of a man is what he desires. The measure of that desire is seen in the actions that follow.
Richard Paul Evans
#85. I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors of flames and the sight of a woman suffering in them were giving him joy beyond measure.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
#86. As Samuel Johnson purportedly wrote, "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Adam M. Grant
#87. How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.
Brian Herbert
#88. The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
Charles Lamb
#89. Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.
Ken Jennings
#90. It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his own strength and means; and he who knows that he has not a genius for fighting must learn how to govern by the arts of peace.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#91. A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions are revealed the man's power to govern or his forced servility to yield.
David O. McKay
#92. Agreements. Specifically, a treaty ratified by all the orders of whimsical like forms who dwell here that affords a measure of security for mortal caretakers. In a world where mortal man has become the dominant force, most creatures of enchantment have fled to refuges like this one.
Brandon Mull
#93. In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.
Marquis De Sade
#94. Hence we must support one another, console one another, mutually help, counsel, and advise, for the measure of every man's virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.
Thomas A Kempis
#95. Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name.
Sam Harris
#96. If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington
#97. Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#98. The strange thing about breeding bulls is that you never know how successful you have been until a few minutes before your bull dies. The man who has bred a brave bull has bred a quality without measure, a spirit, that may be tested only in the destruction of it.
Tom Lea
#99. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave.
H.L. Mencken
#100. For God also tells us that when you perform an action you believe to be a sin, it still counts as a sin even if it is proven to be permissible. Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of man.
G. Willow Wilson
