Measure Quotes - page 3

The way is the beginning of all beings and the measure of right and wrong. (Han Fei)
The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender. View quote
William Booth
I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse. View quote
Benjamin Spock
By no means run in debt take thine own measure. Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty. View quote
George Herbert
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately. View quote
Bertrand Russell
We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? View quote
Virginia Woolf
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it. View quote
David Hilbert
In Lifes small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained Knowst thou when Fate Thy measure takes or when shell say to thee, I find thee worthy do this deed for me. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure, Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me. (William Wordsworth)
The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research. View quote
Paul Dirac
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The measure of civilized behavior is compassion. View quote
Paul Theroux
Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have.[citation needed]. View quote
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Measure a man by his actions fully, from the beginning to the end. Don't take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I'm about, because you know better than that. View quote
Tupac Shakur
There are two worlds: the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imagination. View quote
Leigh Hunt
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say. View quote
Ramsey Clark
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. View quote
Toni Morrison
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. View quote
George Bancroft
The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another. (George Bancroft)
Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. View quote
Michael Ende
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. View quote
Albert Einstein
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self. View quote
Albert Einstein
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