Measure Quotes

The level of your self-control is measured as the difference between how you act when you have nothing and how you react when you have everything.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The volume of your impacts is measured by the direction of your movements, the passion with which you inspire and the attitudes by which you make an influence!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Joy is meant to be felt; its not meant to be detained. It is meant to be shared with others; not to be felt alone. When all the mouths smile out their teeth together, thats when the greatest happiness can be measured. You don't smile in order to see your friends cry and claim your joy is divine.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Memories are not always the best measure of things.

~ Amy Neftzger

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

~ Neal Shusterman

Stats don't measure an athlete's hunger.

~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

~ Pliny The Elder

Be very careful when you judge another human being. Do not measure anybody strictly based on the bad you see in them and ignore all the good. Be wary of any man who intentionally ignores another man's record of deeds or work history simply to impose their own agenda. Such a man's judgment lacks merit and should be disregarded immediately. Without a conscience, there is no truth in them.

~ Suzy Kassem

To know the good from the bad, measure the heart. Actions reveal the true coloring of one's heart, not their intentions.

~ Suzy Kassem

Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.

~ H. James Harrington

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

~ Malcolm Forbes

A clock that is moving through space at a very fast speed does not tick at the same rate as a slow-moving watch gently attached to your wrist as you stroll on a tropical beach. The idea of a universal time - a godlike clock that could somehow sit outside our universe and measure, in one go, the movement of everything in it, how its evolution unfolds, how old it is and all that - does not exist.

~ Christophe Galfard

With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary—the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.

~ Edwin Powell Hubble

There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use of mathematics. Neither counting nor measuring can however be the most fundamental processes in our study of the material universe—before you can do either to any purpose you must first select what you propose to count or measure, which presupposes a classification.

~ Roy A. Crowson

The true measure of a person’s character is how one handles one’s failures, not successes.

~ Bill Courtney

How much dust can a body make? Little specks of death. Measuring life in millimeters.

~ Ryan Galloway

What gets measured (and clearly defined) does get done.

~ Mike Schmoker

Subjectivity measures nothing consistently.

~ Toba Beta

I'm so deeply in love with you it's hard to fathom. No words could provide quantifiable resonance or measure.

~ Truth Devour

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

~ Alfred Adler

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

~ Alan Perlis

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

~ Walter Annenberg

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

~ Vince Lombardi

With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.

~ Ben Carson

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

~ H. G. Wells

I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number.

~ Henry Petroski

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

~ Mother Teresa

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.

~ Marie De France

What Olympians eat can vary tremendously depending not only on the events they're competing in, but also their body type and lifestyle outside the Olympic arena. Their diets are affected not only by the demands of their sports, but by everything else in their lives, things that are almost impossible to accurately measure and factor in.

~ Chuck Norris

The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in the United States. As its interest in science wanes, the country loses ground to the rest of the industrialized world in every measure of technological proficiency.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

I enjoy finding the right word and giving each its full measure, its full space in a sentence.

~ Miriam Margolyes

Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them.

~ Lawrence M. Krauss

In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.

~ Walter Cronkite

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

~ Dag Hammarskjöld

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

~ Thomas Hobbes

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

~ Thomas Hardy

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

~ Donald Norman

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

~ Saint Basil

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

~ James Allen

Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.

~ Anna Howard Shaw