I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.

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

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

For above all things Love means sweetness and truth and measure yea loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.

With any work worth its salt you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions you are not taking its measure.

Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.

While eschewing emotion - and its companion vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side they will trust your decisions.

Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people who rely on our aviation system every day.

The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids career and I travel and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does what one feels and what one achieves.

As part of our layered approach we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures.

It's nice being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success so that makes it a bunch easier.

For globalization to work for America it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.

My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally I was able to stop waiting tables and I was able to pay the rent and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic but good enough to make a living.

Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States.

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

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.

Being best is a false goal you have to measure success on your own terms.

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

As you walk in God's divine wisdom you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.

The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others you will build up yourself.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

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.

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