Measure Quotes

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

~ Lupe Fiasco

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

~ Napoleon Hill

The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.

~ April Gornik

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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

~ Jeremy Bentham

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

~ William Booth

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

~ Josiah Gilbert Holland

We are just so thankful that Christ does not measure us by what we do. God is not measuring us by that, He is measuring us by our faith in Christ.

~ Ben Zobrist

Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.

~ Andrew Card

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

~ William Tecumseh Sherman

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

~ Jean Baudrillard

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

~ Thomas E. Mann

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

~ Joseph Addison

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.

~ Wentworth Miller

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

~ Art Spiegelman

The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'

~ Simon Sinek

eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.

~ Pierre Omidyar

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

~ Leigh Hunt

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

~ George Santayana

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

~ Bryant H. Mcgill

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

~ Steven Tyler

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

~ William Blake

I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom.

~ Dylan Moran

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

~ Harold S. Geneen

It's super important that people use their significant buying power to pull companies like Ferrari and show them there is a market for sustainable fuel. So many other car companies would take notice if Ferrari made headway on this measure.

~ Petter Stordalen

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

~ Ronald Reagan

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

~ H. G. Wells

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

~ Michael Korda

How does one measure the success of a museum?

~ J. Paul Getty

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

~ Anna Pavlova

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

~ Margaret Mead

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

~ John Foster Dulles

Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.

~ Rita Dove

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

~ George Bancroft

Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.

~ Greg Boyle

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

~ Chen Guangcheng

The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.

~ Mary Mcaleese

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

~ Germaine Greer

I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

~ John Malkovich