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Proportion is the heart of beauty. -- Ken Follett
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -- Anais Nin
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy
I have not only Arms but a large proportion of Armourers to make. -- Eli Whitney
Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. -- W. H. Auden
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. -- Michael J. Fox
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. -- Margaret Fuller
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. -- Vince Lombardi
Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure. -- Hannah More
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service. -- Earl Nightingale
There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities. -- Chuck Close
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad. -- John Edensor Littlewood
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. -- Francis Bacon
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply. -- Denis Waitley
The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself. -- John F. Kerry
The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of your relationships. -- Tony Robbins
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. -- Henry David Thoreau
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse. -- George Washington
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion. -- William C. Bryant
Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves. -- Honore de Balzac
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization. -- Mercy Otis Warren
Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties. -- Vitruvius
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him. -- Rumi
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth. -- Will Rogers
Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. -- Ernest Hemingway
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes. -- Douglas Horton
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. -- George Bernard Shaw
The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives. -- Armistead Maupin
People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion. -- Sarah Churchwell
If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion. -- Elon Musk
I have my mantra about silhouette, proportion, and fit. I believe that when they are in harmony and balance, you'll look great in anything. -- Tim Gunn
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. -- Camille Paglia
The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it's very difficult not to get swept up in it all. -- Nicola Formichetti
I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying. -- Tom Hopkins
I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance. -- Richard Dawkins
Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole. -- Vitruvius
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There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty. -- John Boyd Orr
Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
Simplicity, suitability and proportion. -- Elsie de Wolfe
Insanity is a lack of proportion. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
With fame, in just proportion, envy grows. -- Edward Young
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint. -- Daniel Webster
Negative thinking blows everything out of proportion. -- John C. Maxwell
Love is perfect in proportion to it's freedom. -- Thomas Merton
Your life unfolds in proportion to your courage. -- Danielle LaPorte
Elegance is the balance between PROPORTION, EMOTION & SURPRISE. -- Valentino Garavani
A sense of humour is a sense of proportion. -- Khalil Gibran
What would bring about a revival of epic proportion? -- Andy Stanley
In proportion as one renders service he becomes great. -- Booker T. Washington
Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity. -- John Ruskin
There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge. -- Laurence Sterne
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. -- William Hazlitt
I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion. -- Bruce Oldfield
Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak. -- Giambattista Vico
Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude. -- Walter Savage Landor
Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion. -- Vitruvius
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. -- Ernest Hemingway
Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride. -- Claude Bernard
We die in proportion to the words we fling around us. -- Emile M. Cioran
Life is always difficult in proportion to its intensity and reality. -- Edward Howard Griggs
We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion. -- Eugene Delacroix
We receive love roughly in proportion to our capacity to love. -- Rollo May
The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to your service -- Earl Nightingale
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears. -- Stendhal
We estimate wrongdoing in proportion to the purity of our conscience -- Honore de Balzac
Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength. -- John Milton
In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance. -- Anthony de Mello
An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance. -- Otto Weininger
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity. -- Quintilian
Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes. -- Robert A. Dahl
The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance. -- Lane Kirkland
Your life expands in proportion to your courage. Fear limits a leader. -- John C. Maxwell
Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it. -- Paul de Rapin
The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion ... -- Margaret Deland
In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism. -- William Edward Hartpole Lecky
A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy. -- Milton S. Hershey
Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind. -- Paul Bert
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion. -- George Washington
If man had a sense of proportion, he would die of shame. -- J. M. Ledgard
Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes -- Robert A. Dahl
We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us. -- Charles Baudelaire
Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear. -- Rumi
We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without. -- Henry David Thoreau
In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases. -- Karl Marx
Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty. -- John Carmack
Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified. -- Maggie Gallagher
The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion. -- Plato
One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself. -- May Sarton
Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence. -- Adam Smith
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty. -- Baron de Montesquieu
No issue is so small that it can't be blown out of proportion. -- Stuart Hughes
Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor. -- Henry David Thoreau
Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give. -- Oprah Winfrey
All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them. -- Mortimer Adler
Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings. -- Paris Hilton
Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account. -- Frederic Bastiat
We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give. -- James Cash Penney
The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity. -- Marcel Proust
All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed. -- Adam Smith
People say my ego is grand. I think it's in proportion to me. -- Wilt Chamberlain
In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites. -- Isaac Mayer Wise

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