Measure Quotes

2084 Measure quotes by 1450 unique authors

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives… — Walter Besant
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand,… — H.G. Wells
You've got a way with words. You got me smiling even when it hurts. There's no way to measure what your love is worth, I… — Marilyn Monroe
Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their… — Jean de la Bruyere
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist. — Isaac Asimov
You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life. — John Henry Newman
There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own… — Charles Dudley Warner
The measure of a man is in the lives he’s touched. — Ernie Banks
A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can… — John of Salisbury
That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a… — Thomas Jefferson
I’ve said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is to stay close to home. Start with your friends… — Annie Leibovitz
Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One… — William Dean Howells
Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from… — Jacques Barzun
Even though we have lost yardsticks by which to measure, and rules under which to subsume the particular, a being whose essence is a beginning… — Hannah Arendt
What do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy? ... If I stick where I am, if I don't travel around, like… — Gilles Deleuze
There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed. — Horace
The emotional elevation of the film is due in no small measure to the extraordinarily engaging performances of Anne Bancroft as the wife-mother-mistress, Dustin Hoffman… — Andrew Sarris
It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must… — Hubert H. Humphrey
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the… — Virginia Woolf
WE MADE A MONSTER OF HITLER, A DEVIL. THAT IS WHY (THEREFORE) WE COULD NOT AFTER THE WAR SAY OTHERWISE. WE HAD PERSONALLY MOBILISED THE… — James Baker
All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect by… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The best measure of a successful life is the way we turn away, we renounce, and even by the way we depart it. — Tariq Ramadan
I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the… — Malcolm X
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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