Quotes of: Measure-of-a-man Keyword

I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his hig...

Eat, Pray, Love

When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas he who is poor and humble of heart lives in a world of peace. An unmortified man is quickly tempted and overcome in small, trifling e...

The Imitation of Christ

A hero is not measured by the lives that he has saved. A hero is measured by the number of the dead that he did not join.

Men of Renown

Our lives aren't just measured in years. They're measured in the lives of people we touch around us

Peeta Mellark

The value of an opinion is only measured by its user. It's ironic that the value of a fact is only measured by its observer.

Lionel Suggs

Color can be measured in the depth of ones' skin, however character is measured by the content of ones' heart.

Mark W. Boyer

While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.

Naoto Kan

If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

The measure of your solitude is the measure of your capacity for communion.

The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery

Friendship isn't measured in days, months or years, it's measured in the way someone makes you feel.

Against the Wall

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

Measure for Measure

I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.

Measure for Measure

Music oft hath such a charm To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.

Measure for Measure

What is time? How is it measured? Why do we measure it? What is its purpose?" -Mr. Ludwig

Stelladaur: Finding Tir Na Nog

No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.

How to Save a Life

True wealth isn't measured by what you have making you happy, true wealth is measured by being happy with what you have.

Scott Joffe

If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it.

Mo Ibrahim

What I learned from Rockefeller that's off-the-hook important is: You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.

Bob Parsons

The government would also be wise to press on with its further measures to promote growth, as it will want to outperform the low figures in this outlook. This will mean delivering measures to ease money and credit and to stimulate demand.

John Redwood

Success may be measured by things (prosperity, property, positions, possessions) but GREATNESS (Leadership) can only be measured by PEOPLE.

Fela Durotoye

A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight.

Delia Smith