Proportion Quotes

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. View quote
Anaïs Nin
We die in proportion to the words we fling around us. View quote
Emil Cioran
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. View quote
John Galsworthy
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. View quote
Francis Bacon
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. View quote
William Blake
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. View quote
Michael Fox
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. (William Ellery Channing)
Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession. View quote
Alberto Giacometti
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment. View quote
Joseph Addison
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. View quote
George Washington
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. View quote
Margaret Fuller
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished. View quote
William Wordsworth
Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole. View quote
Vitruvius
A sense of humour is a sense of proportion. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in religion. (John Stuart Mill)
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. View quote
Vince Lombardi
Nothing that grieves us can be called little by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size. View quote
Mark Twain
Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it. View quote
Orison Swett Marden
There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty. View quote
John Boyd Orr