Stature Quotes

• We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Emily Dickinson, “We Never Know How High We Are (1176)”

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• We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Divorce, Acceptance

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• Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspiration, Character, Improvement

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• Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Inspirational Love, Men, Greatest Love

  William Sloane Coffin (2008). “The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Years”, p.405, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.

  Antony Jay

  Men, Young, Grows

  Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass

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• Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Art, Real, Illumination

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• I happen to believe that most people - and this is where I differ from many of my contemporaries, or at least as they express themselves - I think that virtually every human being is dramatically interesting. Not only is he dramatically interesting, he is a creature of stature whoever he is.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.

  John George Nicolay

  Sex, Ambition, Men

  John George Nicolay (2008). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History: Easyread Large Edition”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues I feel passionate about.

  Herman Cain

  Motivational, Running, Differences

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• My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think.

  Chiaki Kuriyama

  Strong, Character, Fighting

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• Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Love, Bigger

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.24, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Humility, Size

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Thinking, Ideas, Vacuums

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.225, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

  Branch Rickey

  Sports, Baseball, Games

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

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• Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.

  Jack Miller

  Uplifting, Lying, Example

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• If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?

  Joy Page

  Birthday, Opportunity, Years

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• What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Mediocre, Nations

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• A thought once awakened does not again slumber.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Doe, Slumber, Awakened

  Thomas Carlyle (1841). “On Heroes, Hero-Worship,&the Heroic in History. Six Lectures. Reported with emendations and additions”, p.34

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• Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Lonely, Writing, Lonely Life

  Ernest Hemingway, A. E. Hotchner, Albert J. DeFazio (2005). “Dear Papa, Dear Hotch: The Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway and A.E. Hotchner”, p.6, University of Missouri Press

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• It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity.

  Arnold Bennett

  People, Dignity

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• You never shrink in stature by lifting someone else up.

  Louie Giglio

  Shrinks, Lifting

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• I just wish insignificance had more stature.

  Andy Rooney

  Wish, Insignificance

  "Andy Rooney, a Cranky Voice of CBS, Dies at 92" by Richard Severo, Peter Keepnews, www.nytimes.com. November 5, 2011.

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• Love is never easy. We begin by loving the things we can, according to our stature, but it is not long before we find that what we love is other than ourselves and that our love is no protection against being wounded. Do we then speak to dominate what we love, to make it bend to our will, to stop it from hurting us even though to do so is to betray love? And that is only where the difficulty begins.

  Alison Croggon

  Hurt, Love Is, Long

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• But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth--do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. Why, it never occurs to them. "Be not anxious for the morrow," and "which of you being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?" So they dare to be idle, i.e. not to be pressed and duty-driven all the time. They dare to love people even when they are very bad, and they dare not to try and dominate others to show them what they must do for their own good.

  Brenda Ueland

  Peace, Artist, People

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• Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world cannot be sustained because meaninglessness, anomie, and despair will corrode the desire to be sustained and the belief that humanity is worth sustaining. But these are the very things that distinguish the modern age from its predecessors, Genuine sustainability, in other words, will come not from superficial changes but from a deeper process akin to humankind growing up to a fuller stature.

  David W. Orr

  Growing Up, Giving, Humanity

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