We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare not by how many are added.
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 don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon and none beyond it?
Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget but in the size of our hearts in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.
We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget but in the size of our hearts in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.
The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.
In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions but by his habitual acts.
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.
Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.
In return society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
That said ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.
I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.
In some parts of life like mathematics and science yeah I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.
Just after World War II this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.
Biology is now bigger than physics as measured by the size of budgets by the size of the workforce or by the output of major discoveries and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.
God expects from men something more than at such times and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.
It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.
I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace but in my opinion they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations.
Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.