Proportion Quotes

• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Learning, Science

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• Personality must be educated, and personality cannot be educated by confining its operations to technical and specialized things, or to the less important relationships of life. Full education comes only when there is a responsible share on the part of each person, in proportion to capacity, in shaping the aims and policies of the social groups to which he belongs.

  John Dewey

  Important Relationships, Personality, Groups

  John Dewey (2012). “Reconstruction in Philosophy”, p.120, Courier Corporation

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• The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Best Effort

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• The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Fear, Ignorance

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• There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

  Francis Bacon

  Happiness, Beauty, Art

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Beauty'

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• Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time.

  Mike Dunlap

  Free Time, Direct

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• We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

  Earl Nightingale

  Night, Achievement, Wish

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.76, Lulu.com

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• My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

  Michael J. Fox

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "What I've Learned: Michael J. Fox" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2007.

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• Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Realised

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

  William Hazlitt

  Inspirational, Energy, Resistance

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1485, Delphi Classics

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• The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of your relationships.

  Tony Robbins

  Quality, Life Is, Uncertainty Of Life

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• Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

  John Galsworthy

  Inspirational, Distance, Problem

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• Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

  W. H. Auden

  Funny Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Differences

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• The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Humor, Two, Quality

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1933, Volume 2”, p.491, Best Books on

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• The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Civilization, Lust, Degrees

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations”, p.5

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• Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

  Daniel Webster

  4th Of July, Liberty, Wholesomeness

  Speech at Charleston Bar Dinner, Charleston, S.C., 10 May 1847

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• The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

  Stendhal

  Pleasure

  Stendhal (1915). “On Love”

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• Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Heart

  "The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi". Book by William C. Chittick, p. 162, 1983.

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• There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Artist, Photographer

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• A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Heart

  "The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi". Book by William C. Chittick, p. 162, 1983.

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• An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Funny, Truth, Mistake

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• A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Madness, Draws

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