Stature Quotes - Page 2

• History will not judge our endeavors--and a government cannot be selected--merely on the basis of color or creed or even party affiliation. Neither will competence and loyalty and stature, while essential to the utmost, suffice in times such as these.

  John F. Kennedy

  Loyalty, Party, Government

  Address to a Joint Convention of the General Court of, delivered 9 January 1961

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• The best way to help a man increase his output is to help build the man. Help him increase his stature as a man, and he will just naturally do better-on the job and off.

  Earl Nightingale

  Jobs, Men, Way

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• No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Spiritual, Men, Giving

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1981). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• As his country crumbled around him, Fidel Castro's stature diminished abroad and at home.

  Tom Gjelten

  Country, Home, Castro

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Soul, Growth, Body

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.1639, e-artnow

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• Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Pride, Men

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• The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Casting Off, Law, Growth

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.13

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• When one has looked upon Jesus, though he be of little stature like Zacchaeus of old (cf. Lk. 19:3), and climb up on the top of the sycamore tree by mortifying his members which are upon the earth (cf. Col. 3:5), and having risen above the body of humiliation, then he shall receive the Word, and it shall be said to him, This day has salvation come to this house (cf. Lk. 19:9). Then let him lay hold on the salvation, and bring forth fruit more perfectly, scattering and pouring forth rightly that which as a publican he wrongly gathered.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Jesus, Cfs

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• Memories may escape the action of the will, may sleep a long time, but when stirred by the right influence, though that influence be light as a shadow, they flash into full stature and life with everything in place

  John Muir

  Memories, Sleep, Light

  John Muir (1997). “John Muir: Nature Writings”, p.818, Library of America

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• As modern society is formed against the backdrop of a permanent war zone, a carceral state and hyper-militarism, the social stature of the military and soldiers has risen.

  Henry Giroux

  Military, War, Soldier

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe them to be an immense people. Not only have they supplied the world with two leaders of the stature of Jesus Christ and Karl Marx, but they have even indulged in the luxury of following neither one nor the other.

  Peter Ustinov

  Jesus, Believe, Two

  Nicholas Fraser, Kate Caffrey, Peter Ustinov, Carl Sagan, Eric Sevareid (1978). “Aristotle Onassis”

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• It is naïve to suppose that the acceptance of evolution theory depends upon the evidence of a number of so-called "proofs"; it depends rather upon the fact that the evolutionary theory permeates and supports every branch of biological science, much as the notion of the roundness of the earth underlies all geodesy and all cosmological theories on which the shape of the earth has a bearing. Thus antievolutionism is of the same stature as flat-earthism.

  Peter Medawar

  Acceptance, Numbers, Support

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• I was always amused that people were either skeptical or surprised that I would choose a Hillary Clinton as a secretary of state. To my mind, having somebody smart, tough, capable with her own stature, who could travel around the world and command the stage, was a huge asset.

  Barack Obama

  Smart, People, Mind

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Vaclav Havel had moral stature. The president in first Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in many ways is a ceremonial role. And so, speaking out and having that strong moral fiber, people just knew that he told the truth to people who had only heard lies. And so I think his - that's his legacy.

  Judy Woodruff

  Strong, Lying, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Deepika is one of my absolute favourite Bollywood actors. It is wonderful to have someone of her stature wearing my brand

  Prabal Gurung

  Bollywood, Actors, Wonderful

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• We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.

  Joseph Joubert

  Mind, Would Be, Esteem

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• Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.

  Agnes Smedley

  Fighting, Men, Joy

  Agnes Smedley (2012). “Daughter of Earth”, p.279, Courier Corporation

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• Almost anyone who has ever attained any kind of public stature in his or her profession can expect sometimes to see a reflection in a cracked mirror.

  Louella Parsons

  Reflection, Mirrors, Kind

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• Even though [bullying] doesn't actually raise your stature, it might make you feel that way.

  Rib Hillis

  Bullying, Might, Way

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• First I found [Elvis] to be a gentleman and then a gentle man. I found he could be sensitive to small issues. For someone of his stature there is very little for him to notice, ya know? He's so insulated by the people who surround him and by his own popularity. And yet Elvis will still find little things. He'll take the time to be gentle with people.

  Bill Bixby

  Men, Issues, People

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• Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when Im alone. But when one is elevated into the stature of an author, you have to think about your books in terms of their business angle.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.

  Edmund Burke

  Understanding, Use, Aids

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• Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed.

  John Gierach

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  John Gierach (1989). “Fly Fishing Small Streams”, p.31, Stackpole Books

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• In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of priests. In their labors they will have to avail themselves of those forces which are capable of cultivating the Good, the True, and the Beautiful in humanity itself. This is, to be sure, a more difficult but an incomparably more worthy task.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Teacher, Giving Up

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the stature which the history of mankind has in the universe.

  Walter Benjamin

  Enormous, Mankind, Models

  Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt (1968). “Illuminations”, Schocken Books Incorporated

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