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

The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors.”

Not mamy of our old families can boast that a Savile Row tailor calls four times a year at their country estates to measure the scarecrows in the fields for new suits.

There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has

The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out

Should an unwarrantable measure of the federal government be unpopular in particular States, which would seldom fail to be the case, or even a warrantable measure be so, which may sometimes be the case, the means of opposition to it are powerful and at hand.

The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon… has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.

The measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity – adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is

I write about how in Midland, the mayor instituted water conservation measures like restrictions on car washing. He made a point though that they were only “suggestions” and not government telling people what to do. But then his constituents got very ticked off at the sight of their neighbors breaking the rules and demanded that they be made into actual laws with penalties.

Age is never so old as would measure it.

Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender

The scoreboard may show the score, but it can’t measure the heart and soul of a player

Change of ministers amounts to nothing. One goes out, another comes in, and still the same measures, vices, and extravagances are pursued. It signifies not who is minister. The defect lies in the system. The foundation and superstructure of the government is bad. Prop it as you please, it continually sinks and ever will

The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind

The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own work. The man who completely trusts his own estimate of himself is doomed to sterility

In the Edwardian way of things, collected indiscriminately and rigorously, with the global kleptomania of empire and the desire to own, calibrate, measure and stuff everything possible, to put all of creation into its place, and place as much of it as possible in glass cases.

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

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

Joy is a big stress buster too. Measure your success by how much fun you’re having.

You know, a lot of people think that just ’cause you work out, lift weights, eat right, and do what people tell you to do that you’ll live a long live, maybe you will. But, why do people measure life by the years instead about how good the years were.

There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.

Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.

Apparently with no surprise To any happy Flower The Frost beheads it at its play — In accidental power — The blonde Assassin passes on — The Sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another Day For an Approving God.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.

The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.

And it was on my first day on Earth that I realized I didn’t measure up, and I never would.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

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

Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?

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

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

Energy is the measure of that which passes from one atom to another in the course of their transformations. A unifying power, then, but also, because the atom appears to become enriched or exhausted in the course of the exchange, the expression of structure.

Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.

Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them.

The glory of the world is transitory, and we should not measure our lives by it, but by the choice we make to follow our personal legend, to believe in our utopias and to fight for our dreams.

If you want it, measure it. If you can’t measure it, forget it.

If you can’t measure it, you can’t change it.

You can’t manage what you don’t measure.

I learned a long time ago that if you subscribe and believe the good, you have to believe the bad. My measure is my heart and what I know.

The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation.

We are one in Christ; let us be friends with one another; but let us never be friends with one another’s error. If I be wrong, rebuke me sternly; I can bear it, and bear it cheerfully; and if ye be wrong, expect the like measure from me, and neither peace nor parley with your mistakes.

It is simply service that measures success.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both,

If a girl have beef with me, she gon’ have beef with me forever

When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

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.

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.

God created everything by number, weight, and measure.

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of

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

Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches

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

No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.

Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.