“ It is odd, is it not, that a person's worth to society is measured by their wealth, when instead their wealth should be measured by their worth to society. ”
- A. Cygni- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment. Damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment. ”
- Sinclair Lewis- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Give whatever you give with pride. Gratitude for your support is not measured by the size of the gift but truly by its significance as measured by you. ”
- Francis C. Pray- Copy
- 1.1K
“ If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 2.7K
“ A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
- 693
“ Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less. ”
- Jean Jacques Rousseau- Copy
- 662
“ The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. ”
- James Bryce- Copy
- 2.8K
“ If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy. ”
- A. P. Gouthey- Copy
- 261
“ In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow. ”
- Sir Philip Sidney- Copy
- 721
“ The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God. ”
- Deepak Chopra- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him. ”
- William Carleton- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy. ”
- Eric Edmeades- Copy
- 597
“ The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Success is measured on how high you bounce once you've hit rock bottom. ”
- General Patton- Copy
- 3.6K
“ The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ”
- Ian Fleming- Copy
- 1.6K
“ The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. ”
- Marcus Arelius Antoninus- Copy
- 788
“ For I have known them all already, know them all: have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons; I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ”
- T.S. Eliot- Copy
- 2.8K
“ A person's proximity to God is measured by his compassion toward his fellow man. ”
- Rabbi Samuel Belkin- Copy
- 3.1K
“ A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. ”
- Anthony Robbins- Copy
- 4K
“ An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. ”
- Harold Lokes- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Evaluate what you want — because what gets measured, gets produced. ”
- James A. Belasco- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic. ”
- Raymond Chandler- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 296
“ Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned. ”
- Jorge Luis Borges- Copy
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