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We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic progress, in an endless amassing of worldly goods. We cannot measure national spirit by the Dow Jones Average, nor national achievement by the Gross National Product.
Robert Kennedy
Achievement
Progress
Will
National
Worldly
We Cannot
Neither
Find
Spirit
Economic
Purpose
Mere
Goods
Continuation
Nor
Personal
Endless
Cannot
Personal Satisfaction
Average
Product
Gross
Measure
Satisfaction
But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.
William Julius Wilson
Best
Leadership
Character
Perseverance
Creativity
Doctor
Will
Lawyer
Well
Tests
Person
Measure
Who
Businessman
Sat
Necessarily
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
James Allen
Strength
Result
Results
Affairs
Effort
Efforts
Human
Human Affairs
Measure
It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham
Good
People
Wrong
Greatest
Greatest Number
Which
Measure
Right
Right And Wrong
Number
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
John Wooden
You
Yourself
Ability
Accomplished
Should
Your
Measure
Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.
Warren Buffett
Life
Success
Love
You
Age
People
How
Get
Love You
Want
Really
Your
Measure
Many
Actually
Basically
An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
Wendell Berry
Commitment
People
National
Local
Security
Economy
Global
Global Economy
Principle
Genuinely
Offers
Controlled
Cannot
Derive
Measure
Who
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good
Women
Thought
Civilization
Influence
Measure
Sufficient
Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
Ann Voskamp
Life
You
Soul
Own
Else
Beaten
Pick
Picked
Stick
Yardstick
Up
Just
Anyone
Against
Your
Measure
Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.
Deepak Chopra
Life
Increase
Kind
Physical
More
Life Span
Take
Although
Surgery
Than
Any
Done
Human
Span
Human Life
Sanitation
Granted
Measure
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
Jeremy Bentham
Impossible
Censorship
Evil
Tell
Results
Ends
Where
Which
Measure
Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.
Tariq Ramadan
Eyes
Ego
Enemies
Challenge
Looking
Own
Others
Our
Ourselves
See
Potential
Take
Outside
Self
Glance
Instead
Counting
Inward
Greatest
Greatest Challenge
Turn
Us
Measure
Fasting
For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.
Abraham Lincoln
Education
Time
Happy
Power
Become
Enterprise
See
Morality
Something
General
More
Shall
Tendency
Part
Advancement
Period
Accelerate
Industry
Than
Contribute
Any
Which
Sobriety
Might
Much
Should
Means
Measure
Gratified
Present
Desire
A man's measure is his will.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
Man
Will
His
Measure
Don't let anyone make you believe the length of your skirt is a measure of your character.
Amitabh Bachchan
Character
You
Believe
Make
Anyone
Length
Your
Measure
Skirt
I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.
Angela Davis
Opportunities
Responsibility
Made
Take Advantage
Sense
Awareness
Think
Those
Possible
Take
Advantage
Us
Certain
Measure
Who
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.
Ban Ki-moon
Success
Autism
Our
Those
Valued
Members
Ability
Examine
Well
How
Integrated
Different
Persons
Should
Full
Measure
Including
Societies
How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.
Chen Guangcheng
Society
Civilization
Disabled
True
True Measure
How
Measure
Treats
The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every disciplinary measure and which does not instill any fear. And the most effective educational method is not the word of instruction but the living example without which all words remain useless.
Edith Stein
Love
Words
Fear
Word
Example
Living
Every
Carried
Out
Must
Entire
Remain
Instill
Most
Instruction
Disciplinary
Without
Does
Method
Educational
Effective
Any
Process
Which
Measure
Useless
Who can measure the love Christ felt for a lost world, as he hung upon the cross, suffering for the sins of guilty men? This love was immeasurable. It was infinite.
Ellen G. White
Love
Suffering
World
Christ
Men
Lost
Immeasurable
Hung
Guilty
Cross
He
Felt
Sins
Infinite
Measure
Who
Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.
John Taylor Gatto
Obedience
Other
Relevant
Than
Grades
Manager
Anything
Your
Measure
You can love and hate your family with equal measure, but the power of the bond you have to have with them, you can't really ever walk away.
Julie Plec
Love
Family
You
Hate
Walk
Power
Equal
Love And Hate
Them
Really
Your
Measure
Away
Ever
Bond
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Great
Mind
Sign
Great Mind
Excess
Greatness
Prefer
Dislike
Measure
Things
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
Michael Korda
Success
Achievement
Final
Distance
Easy
Between
Always
Been
Measure
Origins
Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.
Parker Palmer
Life
Education
Challenges
Gift
Beyond
Us
Measure
Even
You can be up there, talked about, appreciated all over the world, with people singing a lot of songs about you. But if you don't measure up and you are not really connected with your people... it will explode in your face, no question about it.
Paul Kagame
You
People
World
Will
Face
Singing
About
No Question
Songs
Over
Talked
Question
Lot
Up
Explode
Really
Your
Measure
Connected
Appreciated
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