My success is not measured in money. I have no financial security, I have no savings account. I measure my success by asking myself if I’m telling a story that the world needs to hear, if I am educating people.
When people are temperate in their behavior, in their lives, someone who is addictive or extreme or obsessive can't understand how people can just go through their lives in the middle, and people who are rational and balanced can't understand the opposite. I'm one who's in the extreme camp in almost every area of my life and I always have been. I've observed that I'm in a minority, but I never understand people who are measured.
Leadership success is measured by the success of your successor.
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth.
Power is never measured by what you can give but by what you can actually take!
Humility is measured by how quickly you can admit that you are wrong.
The worth of a person’s thought is measured not by the quantity but by the quality of the support that it has got and this quality is defined by a single factor, which is only people’s human character.
We are on a journey through the inward space of the heart, a journey not measured by the hours of our watch or the days of the calendar; for it is a journey out of time into eternity.
Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amount of hard work that is put into it.
Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
[T]he burden of government is not measured by how much it taxes, but by how much it spends.
Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life
By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.
Every day the word 'gift' is used to define talent, ability, and performance. Being gifted has an even deeper meaning, a meaning that isn't always measured in points per game or winloss records - it's measured by heart, effort, and desire.
Profound question is how do you measure the non-skills component of what goes on in schools: values, curiosity, critical thinking, and so on. That's very tough. Maybe everything worthwhile can't be measured.
Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.
The success [of Mary Kay Inc. ] is much, much deeper than just dollars and cents and buildings and assets. The real success of our Company is measured to me in the lives that have been touched and given hope.
The worth of things can't be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out.
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.