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The measure of a man is what he does with power.


Plato
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If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.


J. K. Rowling
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.


Jesse Jackson
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Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Frederick Douglass
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It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.
Margaret Truman
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
William Hazlitt
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It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what are commonly called his 'natural, inherent, inalienable rights.'
Lysander Spooner
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I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.


Tony Blair
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No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.
Albert Claude
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You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
Orison Swett Marden
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The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.


Lord Kelvin
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A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.


Thomas Browne
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Man is the measure of all things.


Protagoras
In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.
Gary Cherone
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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.


Horace Mann
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Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.


William Allen White
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
Napoleon Hill
Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.
Mahatma Gandhi
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You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.


Robert H. Schuller
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Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.


Josiah Gilbert Holland