Self-measurement Quotes

Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I’m an utter egotist.

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.

He that measures not himselfe, is measured.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.

I care about how many people's lives I've positively impacted. That's the unit of measurement I measure myself by.

That is why all great men are modest: they consistently measure themselves not in comparison to other people but to the idea of perfection ever present in their minds, an ideal infinitely clearer and greater than any common people have, and they also realize how far they are from fulfilling their ideal.

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

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.

I can't say that I was my happiest on court, but I felt completely free. Free from family obligations, free from my own torment. In a real sense I was a different person. It was a place where I could not tolerate the idea of being beaten. I psyched myself up into a state where I felt something close to hatred towards my opponent, a state where I detested the idea of someone making his name at the expense of Jimmy Connors. I was in my element on court, measuring myself against someone else. I was not competitive for show. It came from deep within.

Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself, measures his worth, and his humanity.

Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them.

Success needs to be measured according to the ambitions and the resources of each designer. And many aren't interested in being a megabrand.

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

I don't measure myself against my coaches, I don't measure myself against my teammates. If I'm doing jiu-jitsu for sport, I don't measure myself against the guy I'm rolling with or whatever belt he is or how many stripes he has on his belt. I measure myself every day against the guy I was yesterday.

You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.

Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.

I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.

I have never gauged myself against anyone else.

Measure your success by your inner scorecard versus an outer one.

If one wants to measure oneself by the facile accruement of awards, then I've done very well.

Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all.

Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.

I'm not cooking every day anymore, and that's the biggest withdrawal. Cooking is honest work. Now I don't know how to measure myself.