Top 1200 True Measure Quotes & Sayings

The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect, So hard to earn so easily burned In the fullness of time, A garden to nurture and protect It's a measure of a life The treasure of a life is a measure of love and respect, The way you live, the gifts that you give In the fullness of time, It's the only return that you expect

The true measure of what you put in, is what's received on the other end.

Don’t measure busywork. Don’t measure activity. Measure accomplishment. It doesn’t matter what people do as much as it matters what they get done.

The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.

The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.

Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other--there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow--its contribution to the welfare of all.

True creativity is impossible without some measure of passion.

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.

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

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

A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.

The measure of true giving is to share with someone who has no platform from which to speak and may never benefit us in any way. After all, isn't that what true love is all about?

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.

The true measure of a city is its soul. This is the restless energy that doesn't wait for political leadership.

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

The most treasured and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love. The greater the measure of our love, the greater is our joy. In the end, the development of such love is the true measure of success in life.

The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other. --Slavoj Zizek

For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.

Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name is called duration. Relative, apparent, and common time is any sensible and external measure (precise or imprecise) of duration by means of motion; such as a measure-for example, an hour, a day, a month, a year-is commonly used instead of true time.

What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. We measure changes and those changes are all for the worse. We measure increasing disorder. Life is hard, says science, and constancy is the greatest of miracles.

Racism itself is difficult to measure. We can measure hate crimes - which are absolutely an indicator. We can measure reports of discrimination. We can measure the number of times hateful words are being used across the Internet. Those things all help us measure racism, but it can sometimes be nebulous.

We measure success by accumulation. The measure is false. The true measure is appreciation. He who loves most has most.

The only true measure of success is the amount of joy we are feeling.

True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulates. The inner character of a person-the undergirding moral and spiritual values and commitments-is the true measure of lasting greatness.

Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.

Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.

You can measure the warming oceans with a thermometer. You measure sea level rise with a yardstick. You can measure the dramatic increase in acidification with a simple pH test, and you can replicate what excess CO2 does to seawater in a basic high school science lab.

The true measure of a leader is what it takes to stop him.

The measure of the wealth of a nation is indicated by the measure of its protection of its industry; the measure of the poverty of a nation is marked by the degree in which it neglects and abandons the care of its own industry, leaving it exposed to the action of foreign powers.

The True Measure Of Success is determined by your home life.

The thing you can't measure is someone's heart, someone's desire. You can measure a 40, his vertical, his bench press, and that might let you know things like, yeah, he can jump high. But desire, his dedication, his determination, that's something you can't measure. That's something you can't measure about Rod Smith.

The strength and weakness of physicists is that we believe in what we can measure. And if we can't measure it, then we say it probably doesn't exist. And that closes us off to an enormous amount of phenomena that we may not be able to measure because they only happened once. For example, the Big Bang. ... That's one reason why they scoffed at higher dimensions for so many years. Now we realize that there's no alternative.

The true measure of a person’s character is how one handles one’s failures, not successes.

A true measure of an entrepreneur / successful-person is how they deal with adversity.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death....is the true measure of the Divine within us.

Successful businesses measure and count things. I think that's a safe assumption on top of which we can drop the following hypothesis: unsuccessful business either measure nothing, the wrong things, too many things, or finally, they measure the right things but they don't communicate the measurements efficiently.

The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.

The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.

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.

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

I don't measure myself against my coaches, I don't measure myself against my teammates. If I'm doing jiu-jitsu for sport, I don't measure myself against the guy I'm rolling with or whatever belt he is or how many stripes he has on his belt. I measure myself every day against the guy I was yesterday.

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

How can I be secure? Through amassing wealth beyond all measure? No. And what's beyond measure? That's a sickness. That's a trap. There is no measure. Only greed.

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members

The true measure of success isn't winning, it's whether you won & could actually deliver.

How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.

We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An "adult" faith is not a faith that follows the trends of fashion and the latest novelty; a mature, adult faith is deeply rooted in friendship with Christ. It is this friendship that opens us up to all that is good and gives us a criterion by which to distinguish the true from the false, and deceit from truth.

The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that which seems to each man assuredly is. If this is so, it follows that the same thing both is and is not, and is bad and good, and that the contents of all other opposite statements are true, because often a particular thing appears beautiful to some and ugly to others, and that which appears to each man is the measure

Of all my father's teachings, the most enduring was the one about the true measure of a man. That true measure was how well he provided for his children, and it stuck with me as if it were etched in my brain.

Some people do indeed say that Eratosthenes could not have inferred the true measure of the earth. Whether true or untrue, it cannot affect the truth of what I have written on the fixing of the quarters from which the different winds blow.

True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.

The true measure of strength is through a squat and deadlift.

The true measure of greatness of a human being is their ability to express love in relationship.