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• There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Measure, Man, Day

• Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Measure, Hour, Die

• 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

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Measure, Community

• I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Influence

  Tags in Measure, Women, Good, Civilization

• The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Topics in Honesty

  Tags in His, Measure, Bathroom, Tax, Income, Zero, Best, Return, Adjust, Scale, Man

• Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

  Hesiod

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Measure, Important

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

  Willa Sibert Cather

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Measure, Magical

• Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don’t you let it out then?

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Vision

  Tags in Measure, Unequal, Twin, Walt, Forever, Speech

• The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

  Thomas Babington Macaulay

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Measure, Character, Real, Found

• In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Measure, Right, Profits

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

  Robert Collier

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Measure, Chance

• We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.

  Felix Adler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Measure, Enjoyment

• All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

  Walter Annenberg

  Tags in Measure, Deeds

• Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Topics in Achievement, Goal

  Tags in Measure, Standards

• It’s easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it – the war fighter and the analyst.

  Stephen Cambone

  Tags in Measure, Fighter, Initiated

• The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus.

  Ken Calvert

  Tags in Measure, Harm

• I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

  T. S. Eliot

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Measure

• When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.

  Ralph W. Sockman

  Tags in Measure

• In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic object; that’s how we measure it.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Tags in Measure

• Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

  Andy Warhol

  Tags in Measure