Top 1200 True Measure Of A Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

I only bet on what's dearest to a man's heart. Else there is no way to tell if he's bluffing. What a man is willing to risk or not to risk, that's a measure of his soul.

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

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

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

The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.

The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type of man: thus the herd-man will experience the value feeling of the true in different things than will the overman.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so we are.

The cathedral, at its noblest, is the best outward symbol of the spiritual nature of man, as it is also the most suggestive measure and prophecy of the corporate life of man.

God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brains and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up. 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.

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

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

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

The measure of a man is in the lives he’s touched.

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

When man became the measure of all things what was lost was man.

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

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

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

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

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

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

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 the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

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

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

Christianity affirms that at the heart of reality is a Heart, a loving Father who works through history for the salvation of His children. Man cannot save himself, for man is not the measure of all things and humanity is not God. Bound by the chains of his own sin and finiteness, man needs a Savior.

The Church does not invent sins but recognizes the will of God and has to declare it. Of course, the great thing.. is that upon the Church, which has to declare the will of God in its full magnitude, in its unconditional rigor, so that man should know his true measure, is bestowed as a gift, at the same time, the task of forgiving.

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

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.

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

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.

A true poet is more than just a man who can write a poem with a pen. A true poet writes poetry with his very life. A true poet doesn't use poetic devices to con the heart of a woman but uses the beauty of all that is poetic to serve, cherish, and express love to the heart of a woman. Just as a true warrior is not a conqueror of femininity but a protector of femininity, a true poet is not just a wooer of a woman's heart but one who knows how to nurture and plant love in a woman's heart. Simply put, a true poet is a man who knows how to be intimate with a lover - first and foremost with Christ.

Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly towards an object, and in no measure obtained it? If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them,--that it was a vain endeavor?

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit

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

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.

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

Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.

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

The curse of the intelligent man is that he will always find himself surrounded by the ignorant. The measure of the intelligent man is determined by his tolerance toward them.

If the church says you are not allowed to steal, and we will ostracize you in our midst if you did, if what a man has does not measure up to what he has, if we found that a man has more money than he should have, if a man is earning a salary of a civil servant or a public servant and he has houses everywhere, we have to hold him to account.

That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true--not true, or undeveloped.

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

Effort is a measure of a Man.

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

True creativity is impossible without some measure of passion.

Man is the measure of all things.

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

No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian, his true meannesses, his true imbecilities, to his friends, or even to his wife. Honest autobiography is therefore a contradiction in terms: the moment a man considers himself, even in petto, he tries to gild and fresco himself. Thus a man's wife, however realistic her view of him, always flatters him in the end, for the worst she sees in him is appreciably better, by the time she sees it, than what is actually there.