Quotes About True Measure Of A Man

#1. 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.

#2. The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.

Lord Kelvin

#3. Words of a man were meaningless. But actions spoke volumes, and it was always through deeds that the true measure of a man could be ascertained.

Maya Banks

#4. Your heart was good but you forgot to guard it. You killed yourself slowly because of this. The heart is the true measure of a man or woman. I loved you and I know that you knew I loved you. We all have addictions. Some are just more obvious to the eye. We are all dying, but we are all living.

Kiese Laymon

#5. Of all my father's teachings, the most enduring was the one about the true measure of a man. That true measure was how well he provided for his children, and it stuck with me as if it were etched in my brain.

Sidney Poitier

#6. The true measure of a man is not what he dreams, but what he aspires to be; a dream is nothing without action. Whether one fails or succeeds is irrelevant; all that matters is that there was motion in his life. That alone affects the world.

Mike Norton

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

Albert Einstein

#10. The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.

Alma Katsu

#11. The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking.

Alessandra Torre

#12. 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

#13. How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.

Brian Herbert

#14. The true measure of a person is not in what he knows, but what he does with what he knows.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#15. True humanism points the way toward God and acknowledges the task to which we are called, the task which offers us the real meaning of human life. Man is not the ultimate measure of man. Man becomes truly man only by passing beyond himself.

Pope Paul VI

#16. The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind.

Sir Fulke Greville

#17. I don't know about other people's cameras. Mine is a thing I had cobbled up, it holds together with tape and is always losing parts. All I need to set is the distance and that other thing - what do you call that other thing?

Mario Giacomelli

#18. Then Paul bends over me, cradles me in his arms, as if he's sheltering me from the whole world. I close my eyes, and despite everything, I think I've never felt so safe.

Claudia Gray

#19. Quiet is the new loud.

Patrick Stump

#20. 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

#21. It's a very old axiom, but do you believe the end can justify the means? When there's no choice left?

James Dashner

#22. I want a man that will do what he needs to do to take care of his family. I will give that man every ounce of love and support I have to give. I will never measure him against another man. I will never want what other people have. I will simply enjoy every minute we have together.

Destin Bays

#23. You can measure the true strength of a man by how well he controls others, but you measure his true power by how well he controls himself

Amari Soul

#24. The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set.

Jacob Grimm

#25. But facts abound to the affirmation that most Christians in my nation Nigeria and all around the world, would rather pray to God to come and fix their country than do something about it themselves.

Sunday Adelaja

#26. For me, it works to my advantage when people think I'm stupid. If somebody who disdains you or wants to control you underestimates you, you can play their game right back.

Veronica Webb

#27. 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

#28. We pity the poor heathen who worships a god of stone, and yet we worship a god of gold. Where

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#29. 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

#30. Food = joy ... guilt ... anger ... pain ... nurturing ... friendship ... hatred ... the way you look and feel ... Food = everything you can imagine.

Susan Powter

#31. 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

#32. He would send out the tumans to dominate the Sung for all time. He clenched his fist as he stood in the silence. They had almost fallen to a Mongol general. They would fall to the great khan.

Conn Iggulden

#33. Jenks kept me alive for two years through two death threats, a crazy banshee, and at least two serial killers. Its about time I return the favor! And if I can't, then I can sit by his bed and hold his hand as he dies, 'cause I've had plenty of practice doing that, too!

Kim Harrison

#34. The frightening truth about desire
it's on but
i don't know
whether i want
to be
her, fuck her
or borrow
her clothes.

Daphne Gottlieb

#35. 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