Measured Quotes

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.

In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.