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Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging measure quotes, measure sayings, and measure proverbs.
Best Measure Quotes
- “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
- “The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” ~ Samuel Johnson
- “If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” ~ J. K. Rowling
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“Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.” ~ Steven Tyler
- “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.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.” ~ Dag Hammarskjold
- “One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.” ~ James E. Casey
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“I do know one thing about me: I don’t measure myself by others’ expectations or let others define my worth.” ~ Sonia Sotomayor
- “The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind.” ~ Bobby Davro
- “So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.” ~ Haniel Long
- “The greatness of a man’s power is the measure of his surrender.” ~ William Booth
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“Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.” ~ Andy Warhol
- “The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.” ~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
- “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.” ~ Marianne Williamson
- “I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.” ~ B. R. Ambedkar
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“The measure of a man is what he does with power.” ~ Plato
- “Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.” ~ Carl Jung
- “It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man – social and political – and to the entire universe as a whole.” ~ Dmitri Mendeleev , Measure quotes science
- “The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.” ~ Peter Marshall
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“Even when life challenges us, it’s a gift beyond all measure.” ~ Parker Palmer
- “All four elements were happening in equal measure – the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me that dining could happen at a spiritual level.” ~ Charlie Trotter
- “I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person’s life is the affect they have on others.” ~ Steve Nash
- “The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.” ~ John Foster Dulles
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“The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.” ~ Vince Lombardi
- “Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they’re the things that sustain us. And they’re the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.” ~ Rita Dove
- “You can love and hate your family with equal measure, but the power of the bond you have to have with them, you can’t really ever walk away.” ~ Julie Plec
- “The true measure of strength is through a squat and deadlift.” ~ Mark Henry
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“That should be the measure of success for everyone. It’s not money, it’s not fame, it’s not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.” ~ Lupe Fiasco
- “My dad always said, ‘Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.” ~ Joe Biden
- “We shouldn’t measure everything in terms of GDP figures or economics. There is something called quality of life.” ~ Nigel Farage
- “Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.” ~ Richard Branson
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“Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.” ~ Galileo Galilei
- “If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.” ~ Robert South
- “You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.” ~ Abbie Hoffman
- “We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.” ~ Greta Thunburg
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“Money is not a measure of a man’s character or success in the arena of public service.” ~ Ed Schultz
- “The freedom to fail is vital if you’re going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.” ~ Michael Korda
- “The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.” ~ Han Fei
- “Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead, he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself… By giving me this height to reach people, he has also given me great responsibilities.” ~ Malala Yousafzai
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“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.” ~ Richard Bach
- “Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?” ~ Dennis Prager
- “Don’t let anyone make you believe the length of your skirt is a measure of your character.” ~ Amitabh Bachchan
- “Grades don’t measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.” ~ John Taylor
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“Action is the real measure of intelligence.” ~ Napoleon Hill
- “Gatto Grades don’t measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A’s in school.” ~ Thomas J. Stanley
- “A man’s measure is his will.” ~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
- “Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not the thing that brings a throb of pleasure or a thrill into my life. And I would not pose as a successful man if that were to be the measure.” ~ Charles M. Schwab , Measure quotes what matters
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“The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.” ~ Pliny the Elder
- “Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.” ~ Frederick Douglass
- “Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That’s really the measure of success for the United States.” ~ Leon Panetta
- “Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.” ~ Deepak Chopra
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“Man is the measure of all things.” ~ Protagoras
- “The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.” ~ J. C. Watts
- “We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.” ~ Ronald Reagan , Measure quotes success
- “Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.” ~ Germaine Greer
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“The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.” ~ Peter Nivio Zarlenga
- “It’s only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home – it’s only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.” ~ Margaret Truman
- “The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.” ~ John Lyly
- “Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn’t measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.” ~ Randi Weingarten
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“It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.” ~ Jeremy Bentham
- “A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.” ~ Stephen Covey
- “There has to be a measure of faith. That’s what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.” ~ Wentworth Miller
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“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” ~ Toni Morrison
- “The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.” ~ Lord Kelvin
- “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.” ~ Shannon Sharpe
