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How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.

Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

How does one measure the success of a museum?

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.

It's super important that people use their significant buying power to pull companies like Ferrari and show them there is a market for sustainable fuel. So many other car companies would take notice if Ferrari made headway on this measure.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.