Measure Quotes

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
Andre Norton

Trust, Courage, Lie

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
Yoko Ono

Work, Through, Wish

How do you measure your value?
Loretta Lynn

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
Ninon de L'Enclos

Strength, Mind, Joy

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.
James Buchan

Money, Themselves, Pay

It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham

Good, Greatest, Wrong

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

Person, Between, Public

With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.
Benjamin Carson

Success, Failure, Away

I used to weigh myself every day at a certain time of day. Then I would write down the number and measure my body fat. It wasn't a healthy way to live.
Katherine Heigl

Time, Live, Down

One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.
Sarojini Naidu

Today, Woman, Vision

We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Great, Cannot, Social

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Money, Eyes, Research

The slum is the measure of civilization.
Jacob Riis

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
Gloria Steinem

Future, Rich, Poor

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
Wendell Willkie

War, America, Social

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
Damien Hirst

Success, Best, Goal

Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
Elia Kazan

Death, Waiting, Him

I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.
Angela Davis

Sense, Possible, Advantage

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.
Lawrence Durrell

Children, Thought, Behavior

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
Jorge Luis Borges

Him, Others, Writers

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
Alberto Giacometti

Work, Art, Artist

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
Anna Pavlova

Success, Work, Hard

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.
J. G. Holland

Power, Person, Accident

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.
William Falconer

Health, Moral, Known

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
John Lyly

Life, True, Honesty

I measure in my palm and use my eyes to estimate amounts; a tablespoon is a full palm of dried spices.
Rachael Ray

Eyes, Full, Estimate

The constant need for special waivers is symptomatic of poorly written public policy. It's a signal that the cost of compliance is unreasonably high; the benefits are hard to measure; and either legislators or regulators have failed to do their homework.
John Sununu

Hard, Special, High

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.
Wentworth Miller

Faith, Business, May

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.
Lupe Fiasco

Success, Happiness, Money

Man is the measure of all things.
Protagoras

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