Top Measure Quotes
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
Albert Bandura
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.
Sydney Madwed
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
H. G. Wells
You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
Walter Lord
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Jorge Luis Borges 
Walter Annenberg 
Gary Cherone 
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William Blake 
E. O. Wilson All Measure Quotes
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.
Alberto Giacometti 
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Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
Jorge Luis Borges
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One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.
James E. Casey
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Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.
Samuel Chase
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
Joseph Addison
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English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.
Lytton Strachey
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Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Thomas Hardy
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In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
James Allen
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