Measure Quotes

It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.

The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business.

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

To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.

Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic.

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.

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.

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.

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.

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against.

And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity.

Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.