Measure Quotes
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Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness.
David Steindl-Rast
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But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.
Plutarch
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The sins of others can never become the measure of your own.
Adrienne von Speyr
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Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far sight, the quiet and confident patience, that, above all other attributes, separate man from man, and near him to his Maker; and there is no action nor art, whose majesty we may not measure by this test.
John Ruskin
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The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Alfred Einstein
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Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.
Michael Ende
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The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
Philip James Bailey
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My persistence is the measure of the belief I have in myself.
Walt Disney
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I've been evolving in my stunt career Stunts have always had their place, and I have to measure them now. I've done things where, if I make a mistake, I could die. You really need to look at each thing. That usually is a mechanical failure. So, I have gone from doing everything, to listening and saying, "Maybe I shouldn't do this."
Kevin Costner
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Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves; it is as fancy, as big, as little, as you please, just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.
George du Maurier
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What you measure affects what you do. If you don't measure the right thing, you don't do the right thing.
Joseph Stiglitz
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The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.
Elizabeth Oakes Smith