Top 100 The Measure Of Quotes
#1. The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn't go our way.
Gregg Popovich
#2. Let us never forget that an age prospers or dwindles in proportion to its devotion to the Holy Eucharist. This is the measure of its spiritual life and its faith, of its charity and its virtue.
Peter Julian Eymard
#3. Don't let disappointment be the measure of your relationship with a person. Let trust be the measure.
Nicole Williams
#4. The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.
Jimmy Carter
#7. To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
George Santayana
#8. The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind.
Sir Fulke Greville
#9. Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.
Calvin Coolidge
#10. Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.
David Ricardo
#11. The measure of a people is found in how it treats those who have sacrificed for its survival.
Luke Scull
#13. My persistence is the measure of the belief I have in myself.
Walt Disney
#14. The measure of a man is not necessarily his title or his position, but rather how he treats others ...
Victor L. Brown
#15. In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and the secret of my success. All the rest is showiness, arrogance and conceit.
Stella Adler
#16. The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.
Thurgood Marshall
#17. The measure of your greatness is not by the narrowness of your beliefs, but by the broadness of your vision.
Debasish Mridha
#18. The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting.
John Lyly
#19. The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.
John Ruskin
#20. True inner righteousness does not judge according to custom but by the measure of the most perfect law of God Almighty by which the mores of various places and times were adapted to those places and times.
Augustine Of Hippo
#21. The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
Corrie Ten Boom
#22. If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in grace according to his thoughts and meditations upon the person of Christ, and the glory of Christ's Kingdom, and of His love.
John Owen
#23. I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.
W. Somerset Maugham
#24. The measure of space & time creates an echo of haunting distance between us, yet we are close, we are united in the love we forge together.
Truth Devour
#25. What we do with this peace-whether we preserve it and defend it, or whether we lose it and let it slip away-will be the measure of our worthiness of the spirit and sacrifice of the hundreds of thousands who gave their lives in two World Wars, Korea, and in Vietnam.
Richard M. Nixon
#27. The measure of a person's strength is not his muscular power or strength, but it is his flexibility and adaptability.
Debasish Mridha
#28. I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.
Steve Nash
#29. The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love
Clarence Jordan
#30. The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.
Julia Child
#31. If the measure of a man was the size of his hat, these were great men indeed.
Joe Abercrombie
#32. All things for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men worked to produce them in the measure of their strength, and since it is not possible to evaluate everyone's part in the production of the world's wealth ... All is for all!
Peter Kropotkin
#33. You can get what you desire and in just the measure of that desire.
Thomas Dreier
#34. Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#35. If we compete with ourselves and not with others, then it does not matter who is behind us or ahead of us; our goal is to become and achieve all we are capable of being and doing, and this becomes the measure of our satisfaction.
Myles Munroe
#36. You're the measure of my true decline. Your home isn't in the underworld, you live in the back room of the liquor store. My eternally hung-over angel, my Satan crawling like an amber worm from a bottle of Zoladkowa Gorzka.
Jerzy Pilch
#37. Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#38. I believe that the measure of my soul is my capacity to love imperfect people.
Joseph Grenny
#39. The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience which weowe to those whom Providence hath placed over us.
Joseph Addison
#40. Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure
though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#41. To take the measure of a man, watch not how he treats his friends, watch how he treats a conquered foe.
Aleksandr Voinov
#42. The base sides of the Great Pyramid of Giza referred to the solar calendar while the backbone of the structure itself (manifested in the whole design emanating from the base diagonal figure) was modeled according to the measure of the lunar year.
Ibrahim Ibrahim
#43. In the long run no individual prospers beyond the measure of his faith.
Bruce Barton
#44. Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving.
Coventry Patmore
#45. The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems.
C. West Churchman
#46. In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
Thomas Hobbes
#47. I love you only because it's you the one I love;
I hate you deeply, and hating you
Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you
Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.
Pablo Neruda
#48. Act after having made assessments. The one who first knows the measure of far and near wins - this is the rule of armed struggle.
Sun Tzu
#49. The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will.
John Of Ruysbroeck
#50. The measure of performance of any given agent is the amount of money it accumulates through its actions.
John Henry Holland
#52. The measure of self-assurance is how deeply and sincerely interested you are in others; the measure of insecurity is how much you try to impress them with you.
Mark Goulston
#53. Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.
Anthony Daniels
#54. The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#55. Here is how I take the measure of my progress in life: I imagine myself as I was, back there in
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#56. The measure of life is not by duration but by effective action.
Debasish Mridha
#57. Not time is the measure of movement but: ... each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
John Locke
#58. As it turned out, Clark's shortcomings as a strategist - particularly failing to accurately take the measure of Milosevic - were as nothing in comparison to his deficiencies as a battlefield general.
Andrew J. Bacevich
#59. I zoomed in on the shoe department like a blonde homing pigeon. Shoes, shoes everywhere! Ah, sweet shoes. I truly think you can take the measure of a civilization by looking at its footwear.
MaryJanice Davidson
#60. I was raised to believe that God speaks in the language of sacrifice," he told me, "You are expected to sacrifice because it is the measure of the depth of your belief ...
Neil Abramson
#61. 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
#62. And whatever our faith - whatever our faith, one belief should bind us all: The measure of our character is our willingness to give of ourselves for others and for our country.
John F. Kerry
#63. It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham
#65. humans are not the measure of all things.
Carl Safina
#66. We can only avoid chaos in the world of human affairs by having an agreed standard for the measure of a unit of morality.
Gregory David Roberts
#67. God releases more of His power and presence according to the measure of our hunger for Him.
Mike Bickle
#68. The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.
George Bancroft
#69. If I always behave with propriety, no matter what it costs me to suppress my own desires, then that is the measure of me. Such is the essence of self-control.
Frank Herbert
#70. He said the measure of the man is in those decisions. Do you keep yourself and your family safe in harbor, always? Or do you move forward and brave the storms?
Emery Lord
#71. How we treat the least of our brethren, how we treat the peasant suffering with volvulus, that's the measure of this country. Not our fighter planes or tanks,
Abraham Verghese
#72. The measure of a great teacher isn't what he or she knows; it's what the students know.
John C. Maxwell
#73. The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind.
Bobby Davro
#74. 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
#75. There is little opiate delusion in Jesus's grim warning to his comrades that if they were true to his Gospel of love and justice, they would meet the same sticky end as him. The measure of your love in his view is whether they kill you or not.
Terry Eagleton
#76. Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
Baruch Spinoza
#77. My mother took the measure of what could be built with the material she'd been given, and she built it.
Daniel Smith
#79. The measure of a design is how easily it accommodates changes. With no changes, it's a runner who never leaves the starting line.
Robert Nystrom
#80. There are many ways to be alone, and some of them are almost divine. There is a feeling that comes from being at peace in such a solitary moment, sensing in a very deep way that the space you occupy is important and fulfills the measure of its creation by simply being
K.S.R. Kingworth
#81. We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Toni Morrison
#82. Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.
Marcus Aurelius
#83. The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
Ashley Montagu
#84. Examine the measure of your children's capacities, and leave none of them uncultivated. However modest you may be in dress and other expenditures for a person of your rank, consecrate all you have to your children's education.
Sophie Von La Roche
#85. The measure of human character is our reaction to dark times. No one can sidestep darkness. It is the throne upon which light sits. If a soul has not known sadness and struggle, there is no chance of overcoming, no cherishing the dawn.
David Wolpe
#86. Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.
Seamus Heaney
#87. What was the measure of a marriage? These moments of caring and bliss? Or the secrets withheld?
A.J. Banner
#88. You, and you alone, are the person who should take the measure of your own success ... I do not try to be better than anyone else. I only try to be better than myself.
Dan Jansen
#89. It seemed that it was not only live magicians which Mr. Norrell despised. He had taken the measure of all the dead ones too and found them wanting.
Susanna Clarke
#90. The measure of a country's prosperity should not be how many poor people drive cars, but how many affluent people use public transportation.
Michael Hogan
#91. So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.
Haniel Long
#92. The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being
Bruce Lee
#93. The measure of wealth is the ability to afford ones' mistakes.
Elyse Wilk
#94. Ah, Valentine's Day. This Author personally detests the holiday. A girl must take the measure of her worth by the number of cards and bouquets she receives, and a young man is forced to spew poetry as if anyone actually spoke in rhyme. It's a wonder the holiday hasn't been
Julia Quinn
#95. Love to Jesus is the basis of all true piety, and the intensity of this love will ever be the measure of our zeal for His glory. Let us love Him with all our hearts, and then diligent labor, and consistent living will be sure to follow.
Charles Spurgeon
#96. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. It's in how they make use of what life has shown them.
Brandon Sanderson
#97. The real wants of nature are the measure of enjoyments, as the foot is the measure of the shoe. We can call only the want of what is necessary poverty.
Pope Clement I
#98. Do not test the measure of his love for you by the way he expresses his body's heat. He is not thinking of you at those times. He is thinking of himself.
Pearl S. Buck
#99. Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of our intelligence.
Jacques Maritain
#100. Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the turning point, desire as brief as a dream, the grief and terror that after childhood we cease to express.
Mavis Gallant
