Stature Quotes

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, Made, Challenge

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
Thomas Carlyle

Give, Thought, After

Space is the stature of God.
Joseph Joubert

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
Laurence Sterne

Happiness, Within, Soon

In fact, I believe the first companies that make an effort to develop an authentic, transparent, and meaningful social contract with their fans and customers will turn out to be the ones that are the most successful in the future. While brands that refuse to make the effort will lose stature and customer loyalty.
Simon Mainwaring

Future, Successful, Loyalty

My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues I feel passionate about.
Herman Cain

Wanted, Motivation, Difference

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.
Anne Lamott

Respect, Society, Whole

There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Nothing, Dignity, Match

Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.
Edna Ferber

Somebody, Cut, Becoming

I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.
Paul Simon

Brain, Superior, Inferior

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
Taylor Caldwell

Men, Woman, Genius

I am very picky with my career. I don't need to do it for the money or the fame. I'm very choosy, which is why I haven't played the typical role that people expect to see from someone of my stature and size, as the mean jock or the preppy. It's very easy to see me like that. That's why I go against it in different roles.
Kellan Lutz

Money, Someone, Mean

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Live, State, Mediocrity

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
Branch Rickey

Truth, Sports, Game

If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?
Joy Page

Year, Left, Rise

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.
George Savile

Long, Malice, Arms

One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can't interview someone of that stature.
Maria Menounos

Work, Someone, Whole

I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.
Al Green

Women, Mother, Mama

My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think.
Chiaki Kuriyama

Strong, Character, Thought

One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.
Magnus Carlsen

Men, Champion, Chess

Is the U.S. better or is the world better? Is the U.S. better off today than we were four years ago? Obviously not, economically not. I think our stature in the world is not the same.
Montel Williams

Today, Same, Off

With the birth of my first child and my involvement with my first husband, I basically stopped lying. I just didn't want to lie anymore, because it reduces the stature of the person you're lying to.
Cybill Shepherd

Husband, Lie, Person

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.
John George Nicolay

Men, Strength, Sex

Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place.
Michael Medved

Why, Place, Star

It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.
Ned Beatty

Person, Small, Command

Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.
Antony Jay

Men, Young, Grow

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
Garson Kanin

Men, Future, Speak

Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
Jack Miller

Human, Lies, Noble

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