Measure Quotes

2084 Measure quotes by 1450 unique authors

Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is unlimited, but it comes down according to the season. Grocers put sugar in a bag, but their… — Unknown Author
The true measure of leadership is influence - nothing more, nothing less. — John C. Maxwell
I have a deep respect and love for these tiny humans, and I hope to convey in my images a measure of the beauty that… — Anne Geddes
We've got so much in this life that all we know how to do is want more. So we concentrate on the wrong things-things we… — Joan Bauer
If we want energy security, then we have to reduce our appetite for fossil fuels. There's no other way. Other issues may crowd the headlines,… — Robert Redford
Energy is the measure of that which passes from one atom to another in the course of their transformations. A unifying power, then, but also,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life, not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving, not… — William Arthur Ward
Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us… — Antonio Damasio
No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally… — Baruch Spinoza
I believe that the best measure of whether a nation is going to be successful is whether they are tapping the talents of their women. — Barack Obama
Come not within the measure of my wrath. — William Shakespeare
I've only suffered writer's block badly once, and that was during the writing of Chamber of Secrets. I had my first burst of publicity about… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about… — David Foster Wallace
Purists behave as if there was a vintage year when language achieved a measure of excellence which we should all strive to maintain. In fact,… — Jean Aitchison
Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable. — Starhawk
...the truer measure of sacrifice isn't so much what one gives to sacrifice as what one sacrifices to give. Faith isn't tested so much when… — Lynn G. Robbins
Our willingness to repent shows our gratitude for God's gift and for the Savior's love and sacrifice on our behalf. Commandments and priesthood covenants provide… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I now measure my growth as a photographer in terms of the degrees to which I am aware of, have developed my sense of, and… — Wynn Bullock
By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion — Garry Kasparov
Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks… — John Burroughs
The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims. — Albert Einstein
Power is in nature the essential measure of right. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and… — Gary Snyder
...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in… — Seneca the Younger
The teacher's life is painfull and therefore would be pityed: it wrastles with unthankfulnesse above all measure...Our calling creepes low and hath pain for companion. — Richard Mulcaster

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