Quotes About Measure

The measure of greatness is in humility, simplicity, and in kindness.

The Word of God is our measuring stick against all deception.

The measure of space & time creates an echo of haunting distance between us, yet we are close, we are united in the love we forge together.

Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.

The real wants of nature are the measure of enjoyments, as the foot is the measure of the shoe. We can call only the want of what is necessary poverty.

Moreover, British authorities sought to disarm the colonists in order to dominate them politically, economically, and militarily, not as a purported safety measure to protect the colonists from themselves.

The purpose of life—if it may be said to have purpose—is not ease. It is to choose, and to act upon the choice. In that task, we are not measured by outcomes. We are measured only by daring and effort and resolve.

Don't make the mistake of measuring God's love by the yardstick of your own life..." - Reverend Nathaniel Prior to Sam Purdy

Happiness is the gauge that measures your relationship with God."

You might even be punished for performance that by any reasonable measure is truly excellent.

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these. —Susan B. Anthony

But the world had its layers. To the simple it offered simplicity. To the wise it offered profundity. And the only measure of courage worth acknowledging was found in accepting where one stood in that scheme—in hard, unwavering honesty, no matter how humbling.

I've teamed up with one of the headmasters at Eton College, and we're spearheading a kind of 'slow education movement in Britain'. It's based on this idea of moving away from the fast-food approach to learning and going to something deeper, more woolly, harder to measure.

You can measure the impeccability of your word by your level of self-love. How much you love yourself and how you feel about yourself are directly proportionate to the quality and integrity of your word.

Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.

Through the air floated only important words, and Flajsman said to himself that love has but one true measure, and that is death. At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.

Does he love me?Does he love anyone more than me?Does he love me more than I love him?Perhap sall the questions we ask of love,to measure,test,probe,and save it,have the additional effect of cutting it short.

It is completely selfless love: Tereza didn't want anything; She didn't ever ask him to love her back. Nor has she ever asked herself questions like: does he love me? Does he love me more than I love him? Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. The reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved.

Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.

The measure of love is to love without measure.

Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.

There might not be a measure of happiness left in a life, but there could be beauty and grace and endless love.

I build boxesand place them at your feet, to measure the distance between dreams and reality.