I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T. S. Eliot

I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance.
Charles Francis Richter

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
Charles Kuralt

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.
Bob Woodward

I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.
Nigella Lawson

I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.
Anita Roddick

I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence.
King Hussein I

I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.
Michael Arad

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau

If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.
Mike Schmidt

If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.
Millicent Fawcett

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
William Godwin

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?
Jessamyn West

In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa.
Horst Koehler

In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
Donald Trump

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
William Ellery Channing

It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win.
Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
Orlando Gibbons