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The measure of a man is what he does with power. -- Plato
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -- Samuel Johnson
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. -- J. K. Rowling
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other. -- J. C. Watts
Effort is a measure of a Man. -- William James
Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man. -- G. Willow Wilson
The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. -- Peter Nivio Zarlenga
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. -- Peter Nivio Zarlenga
The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close. -- Alma Katsu
The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for. -- George S. Patton
The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego. -- Albert Einstein
The measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many men he serves . -- Dwight L. Moody
Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about. -- Marcus Aurelius
The measure of a man is not necessarily his title or his position, but rather how he treats others... -- Victor L. Brown
The measure of a man is what happens when nothing works and you got the guts to go on. -- Randall "Tex" Cobb
The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught. -- Lord Kelvin
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
The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. -- Robert South
My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.' -- Joe Biden
The measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place. -- Howard Thurman
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
I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards. -- Graydon Carter
Of all my father's teachings, the most enduring was the one about the true measure of a man. That true measure was how well he provided for his children, and it stuck with me as if it were etched in my brain. -- Sidney Poitier
The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give. -- Philip K. Dick
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others. In dangerous valleys and hazardous pathways, he will lift some bruised and beaten brother to a higher and more noble life. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our weaknesses are always evident, both to ourselves and others. But our strengths are hidden until we choose to reveal them--and that is when we are truly tested. When all that we have within is exposed, and we may no longer blame our inadequacies for our failure, but must instead depend upon our strengths to succeed ... that is when the measure of a man is taken, my boy. -- James A. Owen
A man's measure is his will. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
To measure the man, measure his heart. -- Malcolm Forbes
Man is a measure of his mind. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Man is the measure of all things. -- Protagoras
You can't measure what's inside a man's heart. -- Joe Rogan
Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure. -- J. K. Rowling
A man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints. -- Charles Simeon
A man is as big as the measure of his thinking. -- Napoleon Hill
The measure of a man is in the lives he's touched. -- Ernie Banks
A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love. -- Franz Grillparzer
The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man. -- Roy L. Smith
The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender. -- William Booth
Man cannot measure the bounds nor fathom the depths of divine forgiveness... -- James E. Talmage
Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power. -- J. G. Holland
All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure. -- Hans Arp
It doesn't take much of a rule to measure a mean man. -- Malcolm Forbes
No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty. -- Benjamin Whichcote
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender. -- William Booth
When man became the measure of all things what was lost was man. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
He is a poor man who can only measure his wealth in dollars. -- Woodrow M. Kroll
You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure. -- Winston Churchill
Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement. -- William Least Heat-Moon
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life. -- Marcus Aurelius
To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind. -- Geraldine Brooks
The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman. -- Elizabeth Oakes Smith
The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind. -- Ashley Montagu
Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues. -- Anthony Trollope
He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length. -- Plutarch
The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking. -- Alessandra Torre
A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The measure of a man is determined by how he responds to the truth of God. -- J. Otis Yoder
Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man. -- Brian Herbert
The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind. -- Sir Fulke Greville
You can measure a man's worth by the breed of person he throws out of his office. -- Dave Sim
You can't measure a man by his size. You measure him by the fight he has inside. -- Renzo Gracie
We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets. -- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen. -- Charles Lamb
The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Each man begins with his own world to conquer, and his education is the measure of his conquest. -- Charles Evans Hughes
Every man should measure himself by his own standard. [Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.] -- Horace
Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back. -- William J. Clinton
Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian. -- Ken Jennings
The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America. -- Thaddeus Stevens
Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge. -- Jacques Maritain
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. -- George S. Patton
It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death. -- Elias Canetti
It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny. -- J. G. Holland
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it. -- Phineas F. Bresee
The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. -- Malcolm de Chazal
I believe the measure of a man isn't just the road he's traveled; it's the choices he's made along the way. -- Joe Biden
They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's. -- A. E. Housman
We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it. -- Phineas F. Bresee
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A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up. -- Geoff Nicholson
A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight. -- Kate Jacobs
In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man. -- Marquis de Sade
A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time. -- Ezra Pound
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The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end. -- Neal Shusterman
Because of the indefinite nature of the human mind, wherever it is lost in ignorance man makes himself the measure of all things. -- Giambattista Vico
Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. He takes the measure of his own small soul, and thinks the world no larger. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith. -- John Owen
What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness? -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not. -- Protagoras
No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. -- B. C. Forbes
The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving. -- Arthur Helps
The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his ... genius. -- Otto Weininger
How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile. -- Henry David Thoreau
In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure. -- Jacques Maritain
Man is the measure of all things, of things that are that they are, and of things that are not that they are not. -- Protagoras
The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being -- Bruce Lee
That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision. -- Herbert Read
Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community. -- James Woods
A man with a dream of pleasure can go forth and conquer a crowd and three. With a new song's measure can trample a kingdom down. -- Fred Shero
A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish. -- John of Salisbury
The late Roy Jenkins was both a mentor and a personal friend. He was a man of both phenomenal intellect and political achievement in equal measure. -- Charles Kennedy
Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure for morality, judgment, and justice. -- Myles Munroe
You can measure the true strength of a man by how well he controls others, but you measure his true power by how well he controls himself -- Amari Soul
The measure of every man's virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is. -- Thomas a Kempis
How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders. -- Mikhail Naimy
Every man must, in a measure, be alone in the world. No heart was ever cast in the same mould as that which we bear within us. -- Eric Berne
The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him. -- William Hazlitt
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure. -- Robert South

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