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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Challenge, Times, Moments

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
Ronald Reagan

Success, Leave, Welfare

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl Jung

Life, Patience, Happy

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
George S. Patton

Success, High, Bottom

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Mother Teresa

Love, Intense, Gives

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Health, Society, Sick

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
Abraham Lincoln

Great, Before, Here

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
Marianne Williamson

Fear, Powerful, Light

Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Napoleon Hill

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
John Lennon

God, Pain, Concept

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
Richard Bach

Honesty, Conscience, Listen

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good, Women, Thought

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
Frederick Douglass

Find, Wrong, Injustice

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
Vince Lombardi

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.
Samuel Ullman

Spiritual, Feelings, Become

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.
William Julius Wilson

Leadership, Best, Character

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
John Wooden

Yourself, Ability

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
Haniel Long

Love, Family, Best

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
George Washington

Power, War, After

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel Johnson

Good, True, Someone

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
J. K. Rowling

True, Watch, Treats

The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Plato

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
Andy Warhol

Write, Attention, Pay

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
Napoleon Hill

Life, Feelings, Ideas

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
B. R. Ambedkar

Women, Progress, Community

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
Margaret Mead

Success, Human, Her

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
Marcus Aurelius

Life, Art, Angry

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Health, Society, Sick

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
Steven Tyler

Life, Sometimes, Sorrow

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
Joseph Addison

Faith, Great, Atheist

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