Measure Quotes
2084 quotes by 1499 authors
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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.
— Paul Auster
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
— Richard Bach
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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
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
— Abu Bakr
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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
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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
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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
— Jean Baudrillard
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
— Joseph Addison
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The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
— Jeremy Bentham
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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
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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
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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
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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
— William Blake
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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
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Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
— Robert Browning
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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
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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
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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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