Measure Quotes

2084 Measure quotes by 1450 unique authors

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
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved. — B R Ambedkar
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
During our mortal schooling in submissiveness, we will see the visible crosses that some carry, but other crosses will go unseen. A few individuals may… — Neal A. Maxwell
All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still… — David Hume
Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of… — Vilayat Inayat Khan
You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general view of the… — Louis Agassiz
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
Fourthly, the way of the artisan. The way of the carpenter is to become proficient in the use of his tools, first to lay his… — Miyamoto Musashi
Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of… — Sherman Glenn Finesilver
Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results. — Edward McKendree Bounds
We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we… — J I Packer
I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer. — Charles Spurgeon
eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of… — Pierre Omidyar
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back. — William J. Clinton
There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you. — David McCullough
No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every… — B. C. Forbes
It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home-it's only then that… — Margaret Truman Daniel
Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether he… — Alfred Binet
A man is as big as the measure of his thinking. — Napoleon Hill
Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us… — Charles Caleb Colton
It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can we navigate this… — Jack Kornfield
Gird up your loins for the task that now lies ahead. I had asked you for men, money and materials. I have got them in… — Subhas Chandra Bose

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