Top 1200 Measure Of A Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation.

To the barefoot man, happiness is a pair of shoes. To the man with old shoes, it's a pair of new shoes. To the man with new shoes, it's stylish shoes. And of course, the fellow with no feet would be happy to be barefoot. Measure your life by what you have not by what you don't.

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's.

Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Whatever oppressions man has suffered, they have invariably fallen more heavily on woman. Whatever new liberties advancing civilization has brought to man, ever the smallest measure has been accorded to woman, as a result of church teaching. The effect of this is seen in every department of life.

What is man that his welfare be considered? An ape who chatters of kinship with the archangels while he very filthily digs for groundnuts. And yet I perceive that this same man is a maimed God. He is condemned under penalty to measure eternity with an hourglass and infinity with a yardstick and what is more, he very nearly does it.

The measure of my success is the measure of my happiness.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.

Before you measure the years, you measure the days.

The measure of self-assurance is how deeply and sincerely interested you are in others; the measure of insecurity is how much you try to impress them with you.

Community is composed of that which we don't attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most are things we cannot measure no matter how hard we try.

If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it.

When it comes to guys, my dad is the measure of the perfect man. And that's a pretty tough standard to match up to.

There are many things that you can't measure. But the great fun of what I do for a living is figuring out ways to measure things that people previously considered intangible.

The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.

Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.

I believe the measure of a man isn't just the road he's traveled; it's the choices he's made along the way.

My career expertise is as a psychometrician - somebody who builds tests to measure personality. Companies would employ me to build interviews to measure the talents of people before they were hired.

It's just easier to talk about product attributes that you can measure with a number. Focus on price, screen size, that's easy. But there's a more difficult path, and that's to make better products, ones where maybe you can't measure their value empirically.

For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.

To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities

You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

In our lust for measurement, we frequently measure that which we can rather than that which we wish to measure... and forget that there is a difference.

Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.

We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it.

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

I have a background in theater. At the time I read 'The Loved Ones' script, I was playing Catherine the Great of Russia onstage. Straight after that, I played Stella in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and Isabella in 'Measure for Measure.'

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.

A man with a dream of pleasure can go forth and conquer a crowd and three. With a new song's measure can trample a kingdom down.

What could you measure? What would that cost? How fast could you get the results? If you can afford it, try it. If you measure it, it will improve.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his ... genius.

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue.

No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men.

I'm at a point in my life where I have three kids. I'm a father, and you start to take stock and measure yourself as a man and see where there's room for growth.

Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.

A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

I have a background in theater. At the time I read The Loved Ones script, I was playing Catherine the Great of Russia onstage. Straight after that, I played Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire and Isabella in Measure for Measure.

Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far sight, the quiet and confident patience, that, above all other attributes, separate man from man, and near him to his Maker; and there is no action nor art, whose majesty we may not measure by this test.

A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight.

To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.

A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval.

The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.

The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.

I guess I'll never measure up to anyone's expectations. I surely don't measure up to what I'd like to be.

Man cannot measure the bounds nor fathom the depths of divine forgiveness.

We are apt to think we know what time is because we can measure it, but no sooner do we reflect upon it than that illusion goes. So it appears that the range of the measureable is not the range of the knowable. There are things we can measure, like time, but yet our minds do not grasp their meaning. There are things we cannot measure, like happiness or pain, and yet their meaning is perfectly clear to us.

Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.

It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.

There is no way to measure it ... because there's no one to measure it.