Excellence Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our measure of rewards and punishments is most partial and incomplete, absurdly inadequate, utterly worldly; and we wish to continue it into the next…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, But the…

— Robert Browning

“Our plans and designs should be so perfect in truth and beauty, that in touching them the world could only mar. We should thus…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The true measure of a man, is not what he does when is being watched, but what he does when he is alone.

— Blaze Olamiday

The measure of a man’s character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures.

— Bill Courtney

Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.

— J. G. Holland

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

— Anonymous

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.”

— Marquis de Sade

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What…

— Orison Swett Marden

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

— Anonymous

“the measure of a man is how he treats the women in his family.” His wisdom came from experience, from his own earlier failures…

— J.D. Vance

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

— Joe Biden

Effort is a measure of a Man.

— William James

The measure of a man is in the lives he’s touched.

— Ernie Banks