What you measure affects what you do. If you don't measure the right thing, you don't do the right thing.
The measure of human character is our reaction to dark times. No one can sidestep darkness. It is the throne upon which light sits. If a soul has not known sadness and struggle, there is no chance of overcoming, no cherishing the dawn.
If television viewing choices serve as a valid measure of our society, they who choose evil surely are more numerous than they who choose good.
Though we cannot totally change our nature, we may in great measure correct it by reflection and philosophy; and some philosophy is a very necessary companion in this world, where, even to the most fortunate, the chances are greatly against happiness.
Waight and measure take away strife.
It has always been my belief that the true artist, like the true scientist, is a researcher using materials and techniques to dig into the truth and meaning of the world in which he himself lives; and what he creates, or better perhaps, brings back, are the objective results of his explorations. The measure of his talent--of his genius, if you will--is the richness he finds in such a life's voyage of discovery and the effectiveness with which he is able to embody it through his chosen medium.
It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. [. . . ] Let me then float an unconventional plea, the inverse of the usual argument. [. . . ] The extinction of Partula is unfair to Partula. That is the conventional argument, and I do not challenge its primacy. But we need a humanistic ecology as well, both for the practical reason that people will always touch people more than snails do or can, and for the moral reason that humans are legitimately the measure of all ethical questions for these are our issues, not nature's.
To measure is to know.
Life will be lengthened while growing, for Thought is the measure of life.
Memories are not always the best measure of things.
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.
The measure of your character is not what you do when people are looking. It’s what you do when you think no one is looking.
The answers to our problems don't lie beyond our reach. They exist in our laboratories and universities; in our fields and our factories; in the imaginations of our entrepreneurs and the pride of the hardest-working people on Earth. Those qualities that have made America the greatest force of progress and prosperity in human history we still possess in ample measure.
Put a thorn in every enjoyment, a worm in every gourd, that would either prevent my being wholly thine, or in any measure retard my progress in the divine life.
Never measure yourself against magazine covers. Every 'perfect' body you see in a bikini is a result of weeks of dieting and exercise. And airbrushing.
The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.
Jesus did not come to strike a balance between grace and truth. He brought the full measure of both.
How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God's providence and love and express that gratitude to him. Ammon taught, 'Let us give thanks to (God), for he doth work righteousness forever. ' Our degree of gratitude is a measure of our love for him.
The trailblazers are my role models in this industry: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, and Billy Dee Williams. I keep their pictures in my trailer and try to measure to their standards every time I act.