Measure Quotes

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.
John D. Rockefeller

Life, Great, School

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

Success, Time, Strength

Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.
Dan Savage

Life, Love, Family

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

Good, Whether, Likes

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

True, Learned, Matter

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
H. G. Wells

Failure, End, Bad

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.
Deepak Chopra

Life, Human, Done

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
H. G. Wells

Success, True, Done

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning

Mind, Shade, Height

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

Life, Donation, Duration

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Life, Experience, Sense

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Family, Past, United

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
Bryant H. McGill

Human, Seldom, Sublime

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

Best, Honesty, Tax

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
H. G. Wells

Nothing, Ugly, Ugliness

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
Harold S. Geneen

I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn't at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.
Jimmy Carter

Faith, Time, God

A man's measure is his will.
Ali ibn Abi Talib

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
Germaine Greer

Freedom, Sacrifice, Betray

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

Power, Greatness, Surrender

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
Alan Greenspan

True, Career, Through

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.
Henry A. Wallace

Failure, Spiritual, Democracy

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
Phyllis McGinley

Peace, Healing, Body

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham

Happiness, Truth, Greatest

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Toni Morrison

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
Marie de France

Love, Truth, Loyalty

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
Jean Baudrillard

Love, Courage, True

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
Clifton Paul Fadiman

Friendship, Friends, Number

In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.
Newt Gingrich

Tax, Jobs, Defeated

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Thomas Hardy

Nature, Art, Poetry

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