A Quote by Marvin J. Ashton

Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved.

Marvin J. Ashton

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Marvin J. Ashton
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May 6, 1915 - February 25, 1994

Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved. Sometimes we are inclined to put up with a situation rather than endure. To endure is to bear up under, to stand firm against, to suffer without yielding, to continue to be, or to exhibit the state or power of lasting.

Marvin J. Ashton

I can get very depressed by a review that is unfair, unreasonable, and totally destructive.

John O'Hara

Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it. Well, I'm Bob and I'm an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.

Bob Geldof

Jesus measured greatness in terms of service not status. God determines your greatness by how many people you serve, not how many people serve you.

Rick Warren

If only people fought undeserved praise as much as they do unfair criticism.

Mardy Grothe

A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.

Mahatma Gandhi

In organizations, once you articulate how success will be measured, everybody tries to game the system so that they are measured in the best possible way.

Clayton M. Christensen

In other words, let's face it: Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek out a kind of fairness. Of course, that might take time and effort. And maybe it won't seem to be worth all that. It's up to each individual to decide whether or not it is.

Haruki Murakami

Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness

Myles Munroe

The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness.

Myles Munroe

Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have the right to be forgetful - it is 'life threatening'.

Garry Kasparov

people who personify the system are indeed well known for not being what they seem to be; they have achieved greatness by embracing a level of reality lower than that of the most insignificant individual life- and everyone knows it.

Guy Debord

We have a presidential nominee in Hillary Clinton who knows that, in a time of stunningly wide disparities of wealth in our nation, America's greatness must not be measured by how many millionaires and billionaires we have, but by how few people we have living in poverty.

Cory Booker

Hip to the fact that well-behaved women rarely make history, Diane [Wilson] has already inspired a new movement of totally uncontrollable, irresistible and unreasonable women!