Top 1200 True Measure Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set.

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

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

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

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

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

For, once man is declared 'the measure of all things,' there is no longer a true, or a good, or a just, but only opinions of equal validity whose clash can be settled only by political or military force; and each force in turn enthrones in its hour of triumph a true, a good, and a just which will endure just as long as itself.

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

To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.

If you can't measure it, you probably can't manage it Things you measure tend to improve.

The true measure of your education is not what you know, but how you share what you know with others.

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

The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality.

Good leadership is hard to measure on a daily basis which is why so many default to doing what's easy to measure instead.

The true measure of your character is what you would do if you were sure no one would ever find out.

A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.

A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

The real wants of nature are the measure of enjoyments, as the foot is the measure of the shoe. We can call only the want of what is necessary poverty.

Not the absorption capacity of the land, but the creative ability of a people, is the true yardstick with which we can measure the immigration potentialities of the land.

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

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

Real achievement -- the true measure of how far we have advanced in life -- is not determined by what we have acquired, but rather by the degree to which we have put our fears behind us.

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

The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

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

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.

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

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

If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

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.

The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.

The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

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

Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.

A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be real.

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.

The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

The true measure of leadership is influence - nothing more, nothing less.

The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

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.

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

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

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

I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.

Cripple God, who always desires more than he's able to have, and doesn't always realize this to begin with. Who has built clocks, but not the time that they measure. Has built systems or mechanisms that serve particular purposes, but they too have outgrown these purposes and betrayed them. And has created an infinity that, from being the measure of the power he was supposed to have, turned into the measure of his boundless failure.

You can't measure a man by his size. You measure him by the fight he has inside.

I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.

The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind.

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

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

It seems to me a measure of the true perversity of the human race, that one of its very few reliably pleasurable activities should be the subject of so much hysteria and repression.

When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.

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

We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires. 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.

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.

To know the good from the bad, measure the heart. Actions reveal the true coloring of one's heart, not their intentions.