Measure Quotes

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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life. — Marcus Aurelius
Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty. — Paul Auster
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach
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… — Michele Bachmann
Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing. — Abu Bakr
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those… — Albert Bandura
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you… — Saint Basil
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. — Jean Baudrillard
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. — Joseph Addison
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. — Jeremy Bentham
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… — Alfred Adler
An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled… — Wendell Berry
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
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. — Corrie Ten Boom
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. — William Blake
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged… — Jorge Luis Borges
Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts. — Robert Browning
Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves. — James Buchan
We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find… — Benjamin Carson
I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which… — Graydon Carter

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