Measure Of A Man Quotes - Page 3

• A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Love, Passion, Men

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• Conventional measures of mental ability, such as intelligence tests and scholarship, show some of the very highest records belong to INFP and INFJ types, who relegate thinking to last place or next to last. The preference for thinking appears to have far less intellectual effect than the preference for intuition, even in some technical fields, such as scientific research, where its influence was expected to be most important.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Thinking, Intellectual, Intuition

  "Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type".

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• As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.

  Sidney Poitier

  Children, Father, Son

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• My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

  Joe Biden

  Dad, Men, Get Up

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• The measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.

  Howard Thurman

  Men, Order, Use

  Howard Thurman (1965). “The luminous darkness: a personal interpretation of the anatomy of segregation and the ground of hope”

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• The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced by reasonable arguments ... and the appeal to the emotions ... and especially the freedom to cease when sated. The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.

  David Brin

  Essence, Patterns, Emotion

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• One of my heroes is Mr. Sidney Poitier. In his autobiography, "The Measure of a Man," he talks about the difference between being a great person and being a great actor. I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second. I believe that acting is a talent while being a great person encompasses so much more: being a good father, a good husband and the ability to show compassion for others.

  Michael Ealy

  Husband, Father, Believe

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.

  J. G. Holland

  Science, Power, Men

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.20

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• I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards.

  Graydon Carter

  Sports, Men, Games

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