Measure Quotes

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

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 frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

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

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.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

A man's measure is his will.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

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. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

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.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

The slum is the measure of civilization.

What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement.

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

Having a charge enables you to not only detect molecules but also to measure their masses, which you can't do with neutral molecules.

Iraq was at core a war of choice, and extraordinarily expensive by every measure - human life, impact on our military, dollars, diplomatically.

What we're trying to measure is whether states are on track. They don't necessarily have to be at 100 percent, but they have to be pretty close, and they have to be pretty close in all of the areas we're measuring.

All operating and financial ratios by which we measure profitability and momentum improved versus the year-ago quarter.

That's just one of the things we measure our growth by in the electric field.