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A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time. — Ezra Pound

The measure of a person is in the good work they do". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

The late Roy Jenkins was both a mentor and a personal friend. He was a man of both phenomenal intellect and political achievement in equal measure. — Charles Kennedy

The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught. — Lord Kelvin

The measure of a man is what he does when he has power. — Pierce Brown

The measure of a man is how he treats the women in his family. — J.D. Vance

Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not. ~ Protagoras — Plato

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. — Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit — Abdu'l- Baha

Words of a man were meaningless. But actions spoke volumes, and it was always through deeds that the true measure of a man could be ascertained. — Maya Banks

Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back. — William J. Clinton

The measure of man's ability to extend the sphere of social possibility can only start with the values of democracy. — Auliq Ice

The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for. — George S. Patton

The true measure of a person is not in what he knows, but what he does with what he knows. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

You can measure the true strength of a man by how well he controls others, but you measure his true power by how well he controls himself — Amari Soul

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

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

The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his ... genius. — Otto Weininger

I believe the measure of a man isn't just the road he's traveled; it's the choices he's made along the way. — Joe Biden

Man cannot measure the bounds nor fathom the depths of divine forgiveness ... — James E. Talmage

The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman. — Elizabeth Oakes Smith

The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America. — Thaddeus Stevens

Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. He takes the measure of his own small soul, and thinks the world no larger. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The measure of a man is his state of mind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The measure of a man is not so much how tall he stands but how low he kneels. — Dr. J. Otis Yoder

The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being — Bruce Lee

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

You can measure a man's worth by the breed of person he throws out of his office. — Dave Sim

The measure of a man is determined by how he responds to the truth of God. — Dr. J. Otis Yoder

Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man. — G. Willow Wilson

The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man. — Roy L. Smith

Each man begins with his own world to conquer, and his education is the measure of his conquest. — Charles Evans Hughes

The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind. — Ashley Montagu

The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end. — Neal Shusterman

The measure of a man is not necessarily his title or his position, but rather how he treats others ... — Victor L. Brown

It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death. — Elias Canetti

The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender. — William Booth

The measure of a man is in the lives he's touched. — Ernie Banks

If the measure of a man was the size of his hat, these were great men indeed. — Joe Abercrombie

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. — Malcolm Forbes

The measure of a man is not in how he gets knocked to the mat, it is in how he gets up. — Jeph Loeb

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

As Samuel Johnson purportedly wrote, "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. — Adam M. Grant

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length. — Plutarch

The measure of a man's character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures. — Bill Courtney

Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power. — J.G. Holland

T is by justice that we can authentically measure man's value or his nullity ... the absence of justice is the absence of what makes him a man, — Plato

In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man. — Marquis De Sade

The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking. — Alessandra Torre

The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close. — Alma Katsu

The Full Measure of a man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and textures that come alive in others because of him. — Albert Schweitzer

When man became the measure of all things what was lost was man. — Sinclair B. Ferguson

Man is the measure of all things — Protagoras

Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

To take the measure of a man, watch not how he treats his friends, watch how he treats a conquered foe. — Aleksandr Voinov

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision. — Herbert Read

Alas! I had not then learned the measure of "man's inhumanity to man," nor to what limitless extent of wickedness he will go for the love of gain — Solomon Northup

The measure of a man is what happens when nothing works and you got the guts to go on. — Randall "Tex" Cobb

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

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community. — James Woods

No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith. — John Owen

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about. — Marcus Aurelius

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 measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many men he serves . — Dwight L. Moody

The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him. — William Hazlitt

You can measure a man's sorrow, and the world's, in the number of stories that perish unheard. — Jacob M. Appel

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

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

The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use. — Peter Latham

The true measure of a real man is that he has the ability to admit when he is wrong, apologize, and make amends to those he wronged — Richard Ashworth

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

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen. — Charles Lamb

Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego. — Albert Einstein

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.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love. — Franz Grillparzer

The measure of a man is, does he know how to love. — Jennifer Weiner

If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome. — Booker T. Washington

Man is the microcosm; man is the measure of all things; man is the image of God. — G.K. Chesterton

The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind. — Sir Fulke Greville

Because of the indefinite nature of the human mind, wherever it is lost in ignorance man makes himself the measure of all things. — Giambattista Vico

Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control. — Mike Norton

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility. — Alec Guinness

A world where a sparrow's fate and that of a man can be decided in the blink of a cat's eye, such is the true measure of time. — Abraham Verghese

William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, said, The greatness of a man's power is in the measure of his surrender. — Rick Warren

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. — Arthur C. Clarke

Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian. — Ken Jennings

You cannot measure a man by his riches but by the quality of the woman holding his hand. — Avra Amar Filion

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

The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge. — Jacques Maritain

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

Men still think women will like who they are, not realizing: it's what they can do for a woman that sets the man apart. — Solange Nicole

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