Estimate Quotes

• If we listen to our self-love, we shall estimate our lot less by what it is than by what it is not; shall dwell upon its hindrances and be blind to its possibilities; and, comparing it only with imaginary lives, shall indulge in flattering dreams of what we should do if we had but power, and give if we had but wealth, and be if we had no temptations.

  

  James Martineau
  • Blind
  • Possibilities
  • Dwell

• To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Character
  • Misfortune
  • Estimate

• Every individual forms his own estimate of himself and that basic estimate goes far toward determining what he becomes.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Becomes
  • Estimate
  • Determining

• In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Hate
  • Virtues
  • Estimate

• Courage is rarely reckless or foolish... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.

  

  Margaret Truman
  • Courage
  • Realistic
  • Estimate

• In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Experience
  • Judge
  • Distance

• If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for men. It gives them information about the source and origin of the universe, it assures them of protection and final happiness, and it guides - by - precepts - backed by the full force of its authority.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Religion
  • Grandeur
  • Estimate

• The figure we are using as potentially missing -- and I want to emphasize that this is an estimate -- is of 600 people missing.

  

  Alejandro Maldonado
  • People
  • Emphasize
  • Potentially

• Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it ten per cent.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • True
  • Ability
  • Estimate

• With difficulty he is beaten who can estimate his own forces and those of his enemy.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Enemy
  • Force
  • Estimate

• Dr. Oaks made the remark that, according to the best estimate he could make, there were four hundred murders annually produced by abortion in that county alone....There must be a remedy for such a crying evil as this.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Evil
  • Abortion
  • Murders

• If you value the world simply for what you can get out of it, be assured that the world will in turn estimate your value to it by what it can get out of you...

  

  Arthur Twining Hadley
  • World
  • Value
  • Estimate

• Nevertheless, our constant efforts to lower our estimate of the present world should not lead us to hate life or to be ungrateful toward God. For this life, though it is full of countless miseries, deserves to be reckoned among the divine blessings which should not be despised. Therefore, if we discover nothing of God's goodness in it, we are already guilty of no small ingratitude toward him.

  

  John Calvin
  • Life
  • God
  • Hate

• True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.

  

  Augustus William Hare
  • Ignorance
  • Merits
  • Estimate

• Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • World
  • Opinion
  • Estimate

• This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • People
  • Understand
  • Gravitational

• Oral Roberts’s informal estimate of 10 percent healed (Stewart, Only Believe, 58); in the modern faith movement, see Barron, Gospel, 125–36. Van Brenk, “Wagner,” 257, cites 29 percent completely healed for Wagner (which would be quite high).

  

  Craig S. Keener
  • Healed
  • Oral Roberts
  • Informal

• The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. But we cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for; that task is left to others. With the desire for excellence comes, therefore, the desire for approbation. And this distinguishes intellectual excellence from moral excellence; for the latter has no necessity of human tribunal; it is more inclined to shrink from the public than to invite the public to be its judge.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Success
  • Desire
  • Wish

• Never under estimate the Power of the Mind. Persist in creating new thoughts to prevent falling back into negative patterns. It is an ongoing struggle and you have to commit to winning if you are to succeed.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Winning
  • Struggle
  • Estimate

• We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Success
  • Strive
  • Estimate