(1621 quotes found)
“The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.”
Plutarch
“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
“Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure. At least we will be able to prevent the advent of negative conduct dominated by negative emotion. That is 'shila', or moral ethics. Once we develop this by familiarizing ourselves with it, along with mindfulness and conscientiousness, eventually that pattern and way of life will become a part of our own life.”
Dalai Lama
“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
“To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind”
John Lyly
“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.”
Richard Bach
“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
“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
“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
“People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.”
Albert Bandura
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