"Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement."
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"When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life."
"I don't measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can't because I'll just end up crushed."
"Learning can never be quantified with a flawed educational unit."
"We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added."
"The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other."
"Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:1. Acceptance2. Understanding3. AppreciationRemove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart.Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions?So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole."
"Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work."
"To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members."
"A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success."
"Stop counting your losses and start counting your blessings. Only then will you discover that losses are always easier to point out and count than blessings. And that your blessings will always outnumber your losses, for they are truly immeasurable."
"Man is the measure of all things', said the Sophist Protagora (c. 485-410 B.C.). By that he meant that the question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a person's needs."
"She said she loved me, and I didn’t believe it for a minute. Maybe 59 seconds, but not a whole minute. I may be gullible, but I’m not without an accurate way to measure time."
"The true measure of a man is not what he dreams, but what he aspires to be; a dream is nothing without action. Whether one fails or succeeds is irrelevant; all that matters is that there was motion in his life. That alone affects the world."
"I haven't measured it, but I'll bet cat purrs vibrate at a healing frequency. Also, a whispered I love you almost certainly resonates with heart and DNA repair."
"One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention."
"I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings."
"The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation."
"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."
"One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself."