The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.
Mary McAleese

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.
William Glasser

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
George Bancroft

The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.
Harry A. Blackmun

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
Michael Korda

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
Felix Klein

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
William Booth

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
William Blake

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.
Charles Sturt

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
Ninon de Lenclos

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
Malcolm De Chazal

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
Corrie Ten Boom

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

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

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Thomas B. Macaulay

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
Charles Lamb

The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
Peter Marshall

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
John Foster Dulles

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

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
Ramsey Clark