Measure Quotes

2084 Measure quotes by 1450 unique authors

Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination. — Baruch Spinoza
We measure areas of performance that are often ignored: jumping in pursuit of every rebound even if you don't get it, swatting at every pass,… — Pat Riley
A willingness to practice patience. Patience in communication is that certain ingredient of conduct we hope others will exhibit toward us when we fail to… — Marvin J. Ashton
Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure. — Russell L. Ackoff
There will always be someone with a cuter girl, a bigger car, a bigger home, but that does not matter. You measure your own performance… — Harvey Mackay
The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration. — Dallin H. Oaks
It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end. — Thomas Jefferson
A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We all have an unknown ability, which will probably remain unknown forever. And yet that ability can become our ally. Since it’s impossible to measure… — Paulo Coelho
Therefore, when we find our heart inflamed with love to God, we may know that God hath shined upon our souls in the pardon of… — Richard Sibbes
Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a… — Leon Panetta
People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, generosity… — Nelson Mandela
Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful. — Epictetus
Our first benchmark is to cut the deficit more quickly to safeguard Britain’s credit rating. I know that we are taking a political gamble to… — George Osborne
Play the last measure very softly. — Anna Pavlova
The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed… — Zygmunt Bauman
Our music, whose eternal being is forever bound up in its temporal sounds, is not merely an art, enriching beyond measure our cultural life, but… — Bruno Walter
The best measure of success, is how you deal with failure — Ronnie Radke
Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man. — G. Willow Wilson
The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results - these are the qualities of a leader. — Mary Parker Follett
So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been… — Carl Jung
The self-righteousness and other ego-puffery that makes missionaries and evangelists out of Christians is in truth a measure of how far they are from even… — Kenny Smith
The present moment is always full of infinite treasure. It contains far more than you can possibly grasp. Faith is the measure of its riches:… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade
If television viewing choices serve as a valid measure of our society, they who choose evil surely are more numerous than they who choose good. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to… — Kate DiCamillo

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