Measure Quotes
2084 Measure quotes by 1450 unique authors
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Please take good care of it all, OK? Be an enlightened monarch who treats your domain with reverent responsibility. And make sure you also enjoy…
— Rob Brezsny
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People talk about random acts of kindness, and that goes back to the measure of being gentlemanly again. It's about having consideration for others, and…
— Simon Baker
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Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each revelation…
— Edward Gibbon
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In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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In the North, the sale of government bonds was the one measure for raising funds that seemed to work. Even that, however, with the lure…
— G. Edward Griffin
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Material objectives consume too much of our attention. The struggle for what we need or for more than we need exhausts our time and energy.…
— Marion D. Hanks
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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your…
— Og Mandino
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Let us pass to the despotic part of the soul, spirit. We must not eliminate it utterly from the youth nor yet allow him to…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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It's somehow more comforting to imagine that one's suffering is unique, and to measure against what one doesn't know, rather than against what one does.
— Chris Ware
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Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In fact, it is…
— Norbert Wiener
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No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.
— John Owen
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A man may commit sin and yet be ignorant of it, and fancy himself innocent when he is guilty... We shall do well to remember…
— J C Ryle
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To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
— John Lyly
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The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it…
— Dainin Katagiri
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The main reason to measure objectives is not so much to reward or punish individual communications manager for success or failure as it is to…
— James E. Grunig
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The things I thought were so important -- because of the effort I put into them -- have turned out to be of small value.…
— Thomas Merton
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One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today…
— Sarojini Naidu
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In most cases, no matter what it is, if you measure it and reward it, people will try to excel at it
— Marcus Buckingham
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I saw the duty and inestimable privilege _immediately_ to accept salvation by Christ. Humbly believing that through sovereign mercy and grace I have been enabled…
— David Livingstone
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The more I help out, the more successful I become. But I measure success in what it has done for the people around me. That…
— Adam Grant
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I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.
— Warren Buffett
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To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a full measure…
— Jimmy Doolittle
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Do the American voters know that the unprecedented improvement in their standard of living that the last hundred years brought was the result of the…
— Ludwig von Mises
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By common consent of the nations, gold and silver are the only true measure of value. They are the necessary regulators of trade. I have…
— Hugh McCulloch
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I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the…
— Alan Greenspan
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