(1669 quotes found)
“The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.”
Alan Greenspan
“There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.”
Charles Dudley Warner
“Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures”
Proverb
“To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind”
John Lyly
“The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.”
Sigmund Freud
“A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.”
“Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.”
Samuel Ullman
“I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse”
Benjamin Spock
“One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.”
Napoleon Hill
