Life is short is what some niggaz said; not if you measure life - by how one lives and what he did. — Nas
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. — Corrie Ten Boom
Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity. — Jim Rohn
Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length. — Plutarch
The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life. — Gottfried Leibniz
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. — Michel de Montaigne
Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy. — Eric Edmeades
Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. — Michael Ende
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity! — Paul Gauguin
Even when months and days are long, life is short. — Japanese Proverbs
Life is a short walk. There is so little time and so much living to achieve. — John Oliver Killens
~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~ — Michel de Montaigne
Width of life is more important than length of life. — Avicenna
Short Life Is Measured Quotes
Life (and running) is not all about time but about our experiences along the way. — Jennifer Rhines
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. — Rose Kennedy
The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth. — Ptolemy
You start to live when a moment feels like a lifetime — Chris Brown
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. — Seneca The Elder
Life has ~600,000 hours in it. Use each hour well. The ride will be over before you know it. — Lex Fridman
Life is short, and every moment is precious. — Gad Saad
Life is one big question when your starin at the clock. — Bradley Nowell
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it. — Plutarch
Top 10 Life Is Measured Quotes
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. — Booker T. Washington
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come — Booker T. Washington
All Christian life is to be measured by Scripture; by every word thereof. — John Wycliffe
How many people you bless is how you measure success — Rick Ross
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. — Albert Einstein
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time. — Jorge Luis Borges
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
Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success. — Herman Cain
If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul. — John Piper
Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations. — Samuel Ullman
Life Is Measured Image Quotes
Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential. — Bud Wilkinson
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Life Is Measured In Moments Quotes
So many times we look for those things in life we can measure.... The college degree, the money we earn, the success we brag about.... But the little things in life, the minute moments...not taken for granted, the value of their treasure is substantial all the more. — Samuel S. Sumner
The most treasured and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love. The greater the measure of our love, the greater is our joy. In the end, the development of such love is the true measure of success in life. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Don't put off joy and happiness. Strive to live each day to its fullest, squeezing all the joy you can out of each moment. Instead of measuring your life's value by your progress toward a single goal, remember that the direction you're headed in is more important than temporary results. — Tony Robbins
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
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 forever. — Alan Watts
How to measure a life's worth? The important thing, said Paloma one day, is not the fact of dying, it is what you are doing in the moment of your death. — Muriel Barbery
To understand the totality of this extraordinary thing called life, one must obviously not be too definite about these things. One cannot be definite with something which is so immense, which is not measurable by words. We cannot understand the immeasurable so long as we approach it through time. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible. — Neale Donald Walsch
Life is not measured by the time we live. — George Crabbe
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has. — Eloisa James
What Is Measured Quotes
The value of our good is not measured by what it does, but by the amount of good it does to the one concerned. — Milton S. Hershey
Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share. — Watchman Nee
Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals. — Dorothy Height
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition. — John Smith
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind. — Lord Kelvin
Success is not measured by what you do compared to what somebody else does. Success is measured by what you do compared to what you are capable of doing. — Zig Ziglar
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love. — Francis Chan
Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. — Charles Lindbergh
The problem with Prosperity Theology is not that it promises too much, but that it aims for so little. What God promises us in Christ is far above anything that can be measured in earthly wealth - and believers are not promised earthly wealth nor the gift of health. — Albert Mohler
To the barefoot man, happiness is a pair of shoes. To the man with old shoes, it's a pair of new shoes. To the man with new shoes, it's stylish shoes. And of course, the fellow with no feet would be happy to be barefoot. Measure your life by what you have not by what you don't. — Michael Josephson
Life Is Not Measured Quotes
To Almighty God, it's not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. Love is not measured by how much we do; love is measured by how much love we put in; how much it is hurting us in loving. — Mother Teresa
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give. — Philip K. Dick
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. — Carl Jung
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. — Albert Schweitzer
Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous difference in our lives...Social capital makes us smarter, healthier, safer, richer, and better able to govern a just and stable democracy. — Robert D. Putnam
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
Remember, success is not measured by heights attained but by obstacles overcome. We're going to pass through many obstacles in our lives: good days, bad days. But the successful person will overcome those obstacles and constantly move forward. — Bruce Jenner
The strength of your faith is not measured by the absence of doubt, but by the faithfulness of your life in the face of doubt. — Nicky Gumbel
I am convinced that success is not measured by what you get out of life, but by what you give back. — Jerry Moran
Sure, when you're in the midst of your own suffering, it's easy to convince yourself that you're no good—but we are all tested in this life...The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end. — Neal Shusterman
The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis. — Thurgood Marshall
Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change. - Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out. - Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure - Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same. — Dan Millman
Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.
Lions don't have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don't talk, and those who talk don't work. Handle your business. Measure your efforts by results. Focus your time, energy, and activity on mastering and executing a plan. — Les Brown
Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young. — Roger Angell
The real measure of any time management technique is whether or not it helps you neglect the right things. — Oliver Burkeman
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.
To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment. — Elisabeth Elliot
The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day. — Carl Sagan
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor. — Hesiod
Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it. — Jay Griffiths
Length Of Life Quotes
Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. — Alfred Hitchcock
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts--spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back -- length of life. — Rose Kennedy
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. — Diane Ackerman
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art. — Alberto Manguel
The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth. — Marilyn vos Savant
Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change.
It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth or learning or inheritance or economic power, to retain any mandate, any permanent authority to arrogate to itself the political control of American public life. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. — H. L. Mencken
A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life. — Jim Samuels
A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life. — Woody Allen
A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May,
Although it fall and die that night,
It was the plant and flower of light.
In small proportions we just beauties see,
And in short measures life may perfect be. — Ben Jonson
I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love. — Jimmy Carter
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life. — Sigmund Freud
Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness. — David Steindl-Rast
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. — Mikhail Bakunin
The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for. — George S. Patton
Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward. — William Butler Yeats
I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others. — Steve Nash
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. — Marianne Williamson
19 years in a maximum security penal colony. The number of years does not matter. I perfectly understand that, like many political prisoners, I am sitting on a life sentence. Where life is measured by the term of my life or the term of life of this regime. The sentencing figure is not for me. It is for you. You, not me, are being frightened and deprived of the will to resist. You are being forced to surrender your country of Russia without a fight to the gang of traitors, thieves, and scoundrels who have seized power. Putin must not achieve his goal. Do not lose the will to resist. — Alexei Navalny
Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land. — Luna Leopold
The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land. — Luna Leopold
Sex appeal is a wonderful, warm, womanly healthy feeling . . . it comes only from inside, it's from nothing that's manufactured. It has nothing to do with measurements or lipstick color. To me, it's cleanliness, and youth, an effervescent desire to enjoy life. — Jayne Mansfield
Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature --if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you --know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse. — Henry David Thoreau
Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved. — Marvin J. Ashton
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer. — Max Planck
Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future. — David Whyte
As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet. — Kenneth Scott Latourette
How I measure riches is by the friends I have and the loved ones I have and the people I care about in my life and that is where my values are and those are my riches. — Ann Romney
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