These unit quotes will inspire you. Unit of measurement, unit any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging unit quotes, unit sayings, and unit proverbs.
Best Unit Quotes
- “Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “…It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self-confidence born of demonstrated ability.” ~ George S. Patton
- “In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to others. There is a greater fullness of life about his own existence, and when there is more life in the units there is more in the mass which is composed of them.” ~ John Stuart Mill
- “All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an awful lot of designs, especially in this country, make life a lot more inconvenient. I’m thinking, for instance, of high-fidelity units that have so many switches and toggles and buttons and things that they confuse most people.” ~ Victor Papanek
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“In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Men cannot be raised in masses as the mountains were in the early geological states of the world. They must be dealt with as units; for it is only by the elevation of individuals that the elevation of the masses can be effectively secured.” ~ Samuel Smiles
- “Another touchy point: the inability of successive Israeli governments to deal with the propaganda war. Israel has a brilliant instrument in the IDF. We have a cyber-war unit which may become the best unit in the world to fight cyber problems. On the propaganda war…it is a large failure.” ~ Manfred Gerstenfeld
- “I think we all have great opportunities individually but collectively our unit is so much bigger. Collectively our unit is something I’ve never seen on television. I don’t look at our show as a basketball show. I look at our show as a sports and entertainment show.” ~ Kenny Smith
- “Systems are corporate-funded mechanisms for increasing efficiency; programs are user-funded mechanisms for increasing effectiveness. Programs should generally be charged back to users, systems should never be. Allocating corporate overhead to the operating units is simply a mistake.” ~ Geoffrey Moore
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“Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.” ~ Valerie Solanas
- “For a long time, it was like I was part of some special forces unit: I’d land, meet everyone, five minutes later I’d have to do some amazing work, then – boom! – I’m out again. You know, playing supporting parts takes courage.” ~ John C. Reilly
- “I have long been in favor of a balanced budget restriction at the level of the federal government of the United States. Because the federal government has money-creating powers it can, in fact, be very damaging if it runs a series of budget deficits. With the state government in the United States, they don’t have money-creating powers. The automatic discipline imposed by the fact that they are in a common monetary unit and don’t have control over the money power means that the balanced budget restriction is less needed.” ~ James M. Buchanan
- “A currency serves three functions: providing a means of payment, a unit of account, and a store of value. Gold may be a store of value for wealth, but it is not a means of payment. You cannot pay for your groceries with it. Nor is it a unit of account. Prices of goods and services, and of financial assets, are not denominated in gold terms.” ~ Nouriel Roubini
- “The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can’t tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.” ~ Esa-Pekka Salonen
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“Order is repetition of units.
Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm.” ~ M. C. Escher
- “A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors’ homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage.” ~ Jerry Saltz
- “But if you’re going to go out on a military unit, you’ve got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger.” ~ Bob Schieffer
- “When you’re in a young band for the first time, geographically you’re in the same place and you tend to go out and socialize. You play more shows, you spend more time together. You’re a unit. As you grow older, inevitably you develop a life outside the band. I think it would be tragic if you didn’t.” ~ Robert Smith
- “Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It’s been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I’m talking about. But I’m still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.” ~ Patrick Stewart
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“Most bands don’t work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.” ~ Bruce Springsteen
- “Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn’t occur when we’re on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.” ~ David Ogden Stiers
- “The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.” ~ Lester B. Pearson
- “Rocky would definitely run for councilman. Maybe mayor. But these people are actually most effective in the family unit. That’s where they shine.” ~ Sylvester Stallone , Family unit quotes
- “I had the good fortune to be thrown unexpectedly into something called the Labour Research Unit – a little-known organization set up to assist the fledgling labor movement. It was not a company, nor a statutory board, nor a government department – in fact, it did not exist at all as a legal entity. Thus in slightly unorthodox circumstances, I became part of that struggle.” ~ S. R. Nathan
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“Worried about dry skin? Concerned about lines and wrinkles? Then visit a burns unit and get some perspective.” ~ Shaun Micallef
- “Every political creation of new money transfers wealth from workers and savers to those who are spending in the market place newly created monetary units which no one has earned.” ~ Percy L. Greaves, Jr.
- “India has left a deeper mark upon the history the philosophy and the religion of mankind than any other terrestrial unit in the universe.” ~ George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
- “As a director myself, you want to have colleagues and collaborators that respect your authority as the director. I’m very comfortable with that, and I’ve done a lot of work in second unit.” ~ Roman Coppola
- “The rationale for loving others is the recognition of the simple fact that every living being has the same right to and the same desire for happiness, and not suffering, and the consideration that you as one individual are one life unit as compared with the mulititude of others in their ceaseless quest for happiness.” ~ Dalai Lama
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“Guilty as charged. We are very much supportive of the family – the biblical definition of the family unit.” ~ Dan T. Cathy
- “The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit” ~ Carlos Castaneda
- “The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada’s military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.” ~ Willie Morris
- “Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our institutions of the future than the ancient social unit whose flexibility and strength substained human society through millennia?” ~ Charles Handy
- “A country becomes more prosperous in proportion to the rise in the invested capital unit per unit of its population.” ~ Ludwig von Mises
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“The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads.” ~ Fred Wilson
- “When I was lucky enough to be successful, I distanced myself completely from the whole thing of units and selling copies. I just wanted to keep everyone who comes to see me happy. I spend so much time after my shows talking to people who come from all over the world to see me. I’ll go out and sign a picture and have a chat.” ~ Gavin Rossdale
- “[Into the Badlands] wasn’t going to be two days of a splinter unit at the end of the shoot. The action and the martial arts had to be integral to the show. That’s what makes it unique, that’s what makes it special and different and ground-breaking. No one has attempted this before on American television.” ~ Miles Millar
- “Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.” ~ William James
- “What line breaks add to prose prosody is a connection between eye
and ear which emphasizes the nature of the language by … creating
units of intent and emphasis, and by contouring the meloding pitch
changes in the narrative-line.” ~ Diane Wakoski -
“The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king.” ~ Ted Sizer
- “Society flourishes when and only when its molecular unit, the family, flourishes. We know that lasting improvement comes only in the small increments produced by individuals adhering to the simple rules of life.” ~ George Will
- “The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.” ~ Herbert Read
- “I’m not in favor of the death penalty. But I’m in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.” ~ John Grisham
- “Actually the family is still the core social unit. Culturally, traditional masculinity was a removed father. That was a false conception of masculinity and the proper relationship between a man and his children.” ~ Stephen Marche
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“Marriage is this black box which is the key to all social and political problems; the family is the unit.” ~ Stephen Marche
- “I have three storage units, and that’s no lie. Three storage units. All books.” ~ Junot Diaz
- “The Palestinians are not going anywhere – -they have nowhere to go. The Israeli Jews also aren’t going anywhere – they have nowhere to go. But we cannot become one happy family, because we are not. So, we have to divide the house into two smaller apartments and learn how to say, “good morning” in the hall every day. Eventually, perhaps we will pop in on each other for a cup of coffee. But we need this semi-detached house, a two-family unit.” ~ Amos Oz
- “What’s a country? It’s just an administrative unit, a glorified municipality. Why do we imbue it with esoteric meaning and protect it with nuclear bombs? I can’t bow down to a municipality… it’s just not intelligent. The bastards will do what they have to do, and we’ll do what we have to do. Even if they annihilate us, we’ll go down on the other side.” ~ Arundhati Roy
- “When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.” ~ Hillary Clinton
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“Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation.” ~ Murray Rothbard
- “I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6 but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.” ~ John le Carre
- “Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space.” ~ John McGahern
- “God loves all of His children. He has provided a plan for His children to enjoy the choicest blessings that He has to offer in eternity. Those choicest blessings are associated with marriage between a man and a woman by appropriate priesthood authority to bring together a family unit for creation and happiness in this life and in the life to come.” ~ Dallin H. Oaks
- “I would compare that to when I first started with the Montreal Canadiens; it was a big family then, where the guys really stuck together and worked like a unit. But when I came back in ’88, it was not like that anymore.” ~ Guy Lafleur
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“But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.” ~ Philip Gibbs
- “In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront.” ~ Lupe Fiasco
- “Osama bin Laden, the person, more likely serves the function of a stand-in. Compare the new terrorists with partisans or conventional terrorists in Israel. These people often fight in a decentralized manner in small, autonomous units, too.” ~ Jurgen Habermas
- “There are lots of grounds for hope in Israeli society. We are seeing Israelis getting fed up with war, looking for solutions. The youngest soldiers are refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories. Some are volunteering for army combat units but are refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories. We have the elite of the Israeli army, the air force pilots, some of them refusing orders which they consider illegal.” ~ Uri Avnery
- “Here’s the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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“I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.” ~ Adolf Galland
- “Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.” ~ Stanislav Grof
- “I think there’s a group of students – whether it’s the micro-aggression or the safe space or the trigger warning that garner a lot of attention – but that the fundamental issues that they’re more interested in are – and I’ll be very frank here – how much money do I pay for a unit? And what is that unit going to do for me when I’m graduating? And even though this is mostly in a progressive landscape, they’re asking questions that have not been asked of the university. And the university can’t supply answers to them.” ~ Victor Davis Hanson
- “I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers – which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner, and heating units.” ~ Harold Ford, Jr.
- “In a completely integrated unit where you’d have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers… I think you would have a problem definitely.” ~ Omar N. Bradley
- “Strategy is indeed about choosing what not to do as well as what to do. A business unit needs to decide what need it aims to satisfy in what group of people and with what value proposition that distinguishes the business from its competitors.” ~ Philip Kotler
