Top 1200 Measure Of A Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

weeping...betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.

We shouldn't measure everything in terms of GDP figures or economics. There is something called quality of life.

The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.

It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it.

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains. The wise man moves, the kind man rests. The wise man is happy, the kind man is firm.

I'm not a vindictive person. But I do want to shine a light on human frailty and heroism in equal measure.

The traditional doctrine of man and not the measurement of skulls and footprints is the key for the understanding of that anthropos who, despite the rebellion of Promethean man against Heaven from the period of Renaissance and its aftermath, is still the inner man of every man, the reality which no human being can deny wherever and whenever he lives, the imprint of a theomorphic nature which no historical change and transformation can erase completely from the face of that creature called man.

If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.

Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future.

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

Reason cannot desire for man any condition other than that in which not only every individual enjoys the most absolute, unbounded freedom to develop himself out of himself, in true individuality, but in which physical nature, as well, need receive no other shaping by human hands than that which is given to her voluntarily by each individual, according to the measure of his wants and his inclinations, restricted only by the limits of his energy and his rights.

God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

The world's problems make us think about who we are and where we stand, and how we measure up.

I've laid down with love and woke up with lies. What's it all, worth only the heart can measure.

You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.

If you don't step across the threshold of what you already know into the world of challenges, you never truly measure yourself.

Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ?

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

If one wants to measure oneself by the facile accruement of awards, then I've done very well.

A man after God's own heart is... a man who yearns to please God, a man who desires to grow spiritually, a man who had a heart that obeys.

I went to karate classes where it was basically a line-up of hulking man, hulking man, small nine-year-old girl, hulking man, hulking man.

A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

You should measure me by my actions, the friends I keep, and the charities I support, not by the politics of my husband.

No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer.

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

People are yearning to be asked to use the full measure of their potential for something they care about.

We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.

The Left/Right scale is a misleading way of comparing political systems. It doesn't measure anything.

It's gratifying to work for somebody who doesn't measure accomplishment by the temporary state of public-opinion polls.

The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.

A healthy plant is one that adapts best to the situation in which it finds itself. There is no objective measure of this.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.

Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals.

The way I like to measure greatness is... How many people can you make want to be better?

When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.

It's always flattering when you get compliments, but it's more of a measure of who you are at the time than anything else.

You will have to go deep into man. From where comes this violence? From where comes this exploitation? From where come all these ego-trips? From where? They all come from unconsciousness. Man lives asleep, man lives mechanically. That mechanism has to be broken, man has to be re-done. That is the religious revolution that has not been tried.

The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

There's a tendency to dismiss anything having to do with love and intimacy in medicine because it's hard to measure.

I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.

Don't let anyone else take the measure of your worth and capabilities. Always stand proud in who you are!

When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.

Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life.

If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.

Men do not know how to appreciate and measure luck except that of others. Their own never.

The rate of inflation can't be judged accurately by a few items the government arbitrarily chooses to measure.

The measure of performance of any given agent is the amount of money it accumulates through its actions.

She rides as a man, goes unveiled as a man, fights as a man. Let her prove herself worthy as a man, worthy of her weapons and of our friendship.

When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.

The beauty of an art project is that you cannot always measure the impact, but one day it can become clear.

Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred.

Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.