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

Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.

I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for us. But it will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true.

Really, the measure of a man is when they're tired and exhausted.

No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.

It is a truism that as long as man loves but himself and his art he can never attain to the full measure of manhood or reach the sublimest heights of his art. He must seek to love men as brothers and art, not for the sake of art itself, but art as a means toward bringing all men up to that verdant plateau where their souls may be fed in very rejoicing in all that is true, beautiful, and abiding.

You can't measure what's inside a man's heart.

It doesn't take much of a rule to measure a mean man.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

There is something that pretends to be christianity which is mostly mood. The measure of its faith is merely the measure of its feeling.

What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.

It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.

The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being

You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points.

... True, we are often too weak to stop injustices; but the least we can do is to protest against them. True, we are too poor to eliminate hunger; but in feeding one child, we protest against hunger. True, we are too timid and powerless to take on all the guards of all the political prisons in the world; but in offering our solidarity to one prisoner we denounce all the tormentors. True, we are powerless against death; but as long as we help one man, one woman, one child live one hour longer in safety and dignity, we affirm man's [woman's] right to live.

Customers don't measure you on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver.

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.

There are many things you shouldn't measure. Don't, for example, try to measure how much you love your wife!

Women look at the full measure of the man, not just one comment.

A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.

Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.

The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true-- not true, or undeveloped. With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon’s, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe.

I admire most of all The Renaissance Man, and if it can be said without pretentiousness, I like to think of myself as one, at least in some small measure. Not a Michelangelo, mark you, but perhaps a poor man's Cellini or a road company Cosimo de' Medici ... the Renaissance Man did a number of things, many of them well, a few beautifully. He was no damned specialist.

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.

Through the air floated only important words, and Flajsman said to himself that love has but one true measure, and that is death. At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.

Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Nothing worthwhile is easy. Your ability to overcome unfavorable situations will provide you with time to demonstrate your true strength and determination for success. Always set your standards high, your greatest achievements lie within the infinite feats you achieve in your life.

The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for.

I would say that the quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's commitment of excellence and victory - whether it be football, whether it be business, whether it be politics or government or what have you.

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

You can measure a man's capacity by the depth of his mistakes.

He is a poor man who can only measure his wealth in dollars.

Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.

You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.

Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.

In the private sanctuary of one's own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the statue of true potential.

Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.

Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.

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.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others. In dangerous valleys and hazardous pathways, he will lift some bruised and beaten brother to a higher and more noble life.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

The tape measure doesn't lie. Get that tape measure out and put it on your hips and your waist. Keep checking it. And keep exercising and cutting those calories down until that tape measure gets close to where you were in your prime.

We must measure what leads to results, not simply what is easy to measure.

A man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.

When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.

Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have.

No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles.

A man's measure is his will.

The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.

Never measure your life by possessions. Measure it by the hearts you've touched, the smiles you created & the love you shared.

No matter how you measure it, whether you measure the amount of mass or you measure the number of bodies, most of our solar system exists out beyond the orbits of the asteroids. So we could not have claimed to know our own solar system until Voyager had toured the giant planets.

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.