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«The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.»
«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.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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«The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do himabsolutely no good.»
Author: Ann Landers
(Advice columnist)
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«This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us»
«You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.»
«Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.»
Author: Richard Bach
(Writer)
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«To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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«We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.»
«We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added»
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