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Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it. — Charles Dudley Warner

The Measure of success isn't money or the number of books you write, it is seen in the faces of those you love — Jason W. Blair

If Christianity is going to mean anything at all for us now, then the humanity of God cannot be a half measure. — Christian Wiman

If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game. — Catherine Deneuve

Cents are the most universally used interval measure. — Alexander John Ellis

Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves. — Norm MacDonald

Sad as it seems, I miss both the flies and Ma with equal measure. — Barry Napier

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. — Margaret Mead

The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims. — Albert Einstein

If you want to convince the world that a fish can sense your emotions, only one statistical measure will suffice: the p-value. — Charles Seife

It is not the project but the living process that will be the measure of our actions. — David Holmgren

Don't let disappointment be the measure of your relationship with a person. Let trust be the measure. — Nicole Williams

The ideas by which people ... interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend. — Chris Chocola

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done. — Seamus Heaney

A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship. — Francis Crick

It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana. — Mahatma Gandhi

The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most. — Ban Ki-moon

[Courage] arises in a great measure from the consciousness of strength ... — Edward Gibbon

A man is as big as the measure of his thinking. — Napoleon Hill

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. — Jesse Jackson

The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact. — Leslie Stephen

You are an unusual, brilliant child who has not seen enough of life to grasp the full measure of human stupidity. — Ayn Rand

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. — E. O. Wilson

Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts. — Lloyd Alexander

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach

Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston. — Tom Selleck

The measure of a man, she said finally, is not the words that mark his end, but everything he's done since his beginning. — T.J. Klune

The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It seemed foolish and wasteful and wonderful - to live as if the sky were endless and time itself had no measure. — Cameron Stracher

It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong. — Jeremy Bentham

The work of a generation is beginning here, with your hearings, and you have the full measure of my gratitude and support. — Edward Snowden

Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving. — Coventry Patmore

How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man. — Brian Herbert

The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will. — John Of Ruysbroeck

The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else. — Geoff Gaberino

For whatever we do in our lives, discipline and control over our own actions ultimately measure the level of our success. — R.A. Salvatore

For Monet, on this occasion, water lilies were the measure of water lilies; and so he painted them. — Aldous Huxley

There is no measure in the occasion that breeds;
therefore the sadness is without limit. — William Shakespeare

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief. — Gwen Ifill

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true. — Cybill Shepherd

When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it. — Thomas Paine

The measure of a man's power is the depth of his mercy. — Christopher Moore

A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class. — Paul Fussell

Learning to measure success by the energy, and happiness my endeavors bring me. — Alba Vales

Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life. — Virginia Woolf

Belief may serve as a useful stopgap measure in the absence of actual experience, but once you see ... [it] becomes unnecessary. — Steve Hagen

Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker — Grant Morrison

The ultimate measure of love is not when both like each other
Its when one ignores but the other continues to love till the end. — William Shakespeare

Measure of life is not by the wealth or splendor but by the love you have given away. — Debasish Mridha

The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. It's in how they make use of what life has shown them. — Brandon Sanderson

In modern times, if the sole measure of what's out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I believe in the old saying that if you can't measure something, you can't improve it. — Patrick Lencioni

A true DreamChaser knows how to sacrifice beyond measure and live with the decision. — Jordan Mitchell

The measure of a woman's power is the degree of suffering with which she can punish her lover. — Yukio Mishima

You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. — Abbie Hoffman

The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning. — Satish Kumar

The Cosmos is rich beyond measure - in elegant facts, in exquisite interrelationships, in the subtle machinery of awe. — Carl Sagan

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

But you see, the measure of hell you're able to endure is the measure of your love. — Ayn Rand

The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results - these are the qualities of a leader. — Mary Parker Follett

Success is not money, cars, fame or material possessions but the lives you touched positively. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

If you give your life as a prayer, you intensify the prayer beyond all measure. — Peace Pilgrim

The measure of a society is its compassion. — Kristin Hannah

He would measure the world against the rigid grid of his heart and put each man in charge of a domain no more and no less than his just deserts. — Ken Liu

Measure your life not by the dimension of your bank account but by the expansion of your kindness and love. — Debasish Mridha

A man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves. — Charles Tomlinson

It was never wise for a ruler to eschew the trappings of power, for power itself flows in no small measure from such trappings. — George R R Martin

Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit. — Elia Kazan

There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations. — Leigh Hunt

It is the storyteller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval. — Graham Greene

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

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

I want to tell the nurses no scale can measure
the pain of my dreams
dancing
beyond reach. — Padma Venkatraman

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. — Galileo Galilei

Perhaps the difficulty in measuring Change Management is that the very thing we are measuring is changing. — Pearl Zhu

Hope, Patrick knew, was the exact measure of distance
between himself and the person who'd come for help. — Jodi Picoult

Chasidah. Angel. I love you beyond all measure. That is the only real truth. — Linnea Sinclair

Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained — Idries Shah

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved. — B.R. Ambedkar

The true measure of a city is its soul. This is the restless energy that doesn't wait for political leadership. — Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

It seemed that it was not only live magicians which Mr. Norrell despised. He had taken the measure of all the dead ones too and found them wanting. — Susanna Clarke

No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints. — Charles Simeon

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN. — Alan Perlis

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life. — John Henry Newman

At Natura, we have long been committed to measure and improve the impacts of our activities. — Guilherme Leal

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. — Vince Lombardi

One of the biggest pitfalls for performance measurement is to measure the "part" with ignorance of the "whole. — Pearl Zhu

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

A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish. — John Of Salisbury

The corporations are worried about their reputational damage and a lot of the social media inflicts that, but it's hard to measure it. — Ralph Nader

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

How we choose to deal with pain is ultimately the measure of who we are and of the success we have in closing our gaps. — Hyrum W. Smith

You get one pass at life. That's all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ. — John Piper

The only measure of your worth and your deeds will be the love you leave behind when you're gone. — Fred Small

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has obtained liberation from self. — Madeleine L'Engle

So long as I'm the president, my measure of success is victory
and success. — George W. Bush

Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean. — William Wilberforce

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. — Jacob Grimm