Measure Quotes

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it. View quote
Germaine Greer
It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. View quote
Richard Bach
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
God is a concept by which we measure our pain. View quote
John Lennon
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan. View quote
Alexander Alekhine
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement. View quote
Willa Cather
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. (Abbie Hoffman)
Action is the real measure of intelligence. View quote
Napoleon Hill
To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose. View quote
Florence Nightingale
The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock can measure. View quote
William Blake
Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. View quote
Margaret Mead
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. View quote
George S. Patton
Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential. View quote
Shirley Chisholm
Measure what can be measured, and make measureable what cannot be measured. View quote
Galileo Galilei
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one? View quote
Abraham Pais
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. View quote
Bertrand Russell
As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it. View quote
Václav Havel
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. View quote
Carl Jung