Measure Quotes

2084 Measure quotes by 1450 unique authors

The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced by reasonable arguments… — David Brin
Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at… — Alexis de Tocqueville
We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe. — Harold S. Kushner
Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality… — William Hazlitt
Apart from the pleasure of looking at her and listening to her-of enjoying in her what others less discriminatingly but as liberally appreciated-he had the… — Edith Wharton
I measure what's going on, and I adapt to it. I try to get my ego out of the way. The market is smarter than… — Martin Zweig
To receive more, we must give out what we receive. . . . For it is by giving that we set in operation the unfailing… — Baird T. Spalding
What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature. — Peter De Vries
The only measure of what you believe is what you do. — Ashley Montagu
It is a truism that as long as man loves but himself and his art he can never attain to the full measure of manhood… — Percy Jewett Burrell
God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Opinion is a powerful party, bold, and without measure. — Michel de Montaigne
I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail's secret open… — Cynthia Ozick
What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially of a painting-by… — Daniel J. Boorstin
The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices,… — William Hazlitt
Four Seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of man: He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear… — John Keats
God does not measure everything by numbers or dimensions. He has another scale of values, according to which-asJesus Himself told us-one human soul is worth… — Derek Prince
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement. — Seneca the Younger
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already. — Seneca the Younger
Rich white Protestant men have held on to some measure of power in America almost solely by getting women, blacks, and other disadvantaged groups to… — P.J. O'Rourke
When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as… — William Butler Yeats
Do not measure God's mind by your own. — George MacDonald
You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of… — Abraham Lincoln
In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but… — Samuel Johnson

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