Measure Quotes

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

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

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

Skin is made in large measure of a protein called collagen.

What you measure and reward is what you're going to get.

The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.

Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

How does one measure the success of a museum?

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

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

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

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

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

New situations requiring closer contact with the rabbit had been gradually introduced and the degree to which these situations were avoided, tolerated, or welcomed, at each experimental session, gave the measure of improvement.

Wins are the most important measure for goalies, I think. Certainly it's a great accomplishment.

You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.

Might was the measure of right.

How do you measure your value?

The measure of a superhero is always his nemesis.

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

As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.

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

The success of the Allies in the west was in a measure offset by Teutonic victories in the east. When the invasion of Belgium began, Russia made immediate efforts to counteract by invasion of East Prussia.

Most Americans believe that with freedom comes responsibility - and that one measure of responsible gun ownership is a background check. There must be an app for that.

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

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.

Man is the measure of all things.

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.

The slum is the measure of civilization.

No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.

The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute.

The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.

You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.