Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists...

We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.

With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary—the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that...

At the start of first terms, presidents invariably have a measure of goodwill.

Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Motivations take you there. Tell yourself you are powerful enough to make it, and it will surprise you that.. that power will start manifesting itself.

The truth about life and lie about life is not measured by others but by your intuition, which never lies.

Part of me believes that the completed record is the final measure of a pop musician’s accomplishment, just as the completed film is the final measure of a film artist’s accomplishments.

The true measure of a person’s character is how one handles one’s failures, not successes.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Your patriotism is not measured by what your country can do for you. It’s all about what you can do for your country for your own benefit and for the benefit of unborn generations!

There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use of mathematics. Neither counting nor measuring can however be the most fundamental processes...

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

The only measurement I understand is perfection.

Subjectivity measures nothing consistently.

Your passion is measured by the difference between your willingness to take actions and your desire to quit. When your desire to quit outweighs your willingness to persist, you are ripe for failure!

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 —...

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am...

Memories are not always the best measure of things.

Let us dedicate this new era to mothers around the world, and also to the mother of all mothers — Mother Earth. It is up to us to keep building bridges to bring the world...

The level of your self-control is measured as the difference between how you act when you have nothing and how you react when you have everything.

Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.

Without pleasure there is no sight or measure.

I’m so deeply in love with you it’s hard to fathom. No words could provide quantifiable resonance or measure.

It’s hard to measure up to ‘Battlestar’ – it’s hard not to measure things against it.

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...

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

It’s important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things… The Earth is the measure of all things.

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...

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

Overcome the prideful need to measure your worth by how much more successful you are than others, by operating from a core belief grounded in abundance.

I was downstairs, reading.”” Now?” I strained to see her face. She was smiling, it appeared.”Yes, now,” she said. “It’s nice, sometimes, to read in the middle of the night. The sky is so dark...

The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

All the statistics in the world can’t measure the warmth of a smile.

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can’t really measure degrees of difficulty.

Do not try the parallels in that way: I know that way all along. I have measured that bottomless night, and all the light and all the joy of my life went out there.[Having himself...

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control...

What gets measured (and clearly defined) does get done.

You’re a good man,” Fang said. “You’re the last good man in this whole town. All the good that could be squeezed out of this forsaken place was used to make you. That’s why you’re...

I don’t think you can be a Catholic without an accompanying measure of guilt.

His Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered, and measured; and the vocation to which he considered himself called was,...

Measure your success by the ladder you set for yourself and not on what somebody achieved or done!

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.

It’s so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I’ve never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.