Proportion Quotes

• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time.

  Mike Dunlap

  Free Time, Direct

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• The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Best Effort

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• We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Fear, Ignorance

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• We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

  Earl Nightingale

  Night, Achievement, Wish

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.76, Lulu.com

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• There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

  Francis Bacon

  Happiness, Beauty, Art

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Beauty'

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• Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Realised

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

  Michael J. Fox

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "What I've Learned: Michael J. Fox" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2007.

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• The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of your relationships.

  Tony Robbins

  Quality, Life Is, Uncertainty Of Life

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  The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.

  Tom Landry

  Life, Football, Commitment

  Tom Landry, Gregg A. Lewis (1990). “Tom Landry: an autobiography”, Zondervan

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• The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

  Stendhal

  Pleasure

  Stendhal (1915). “On Love”

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• Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

  W. H. Auden

  Funny Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Differences

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• Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

  Daniel Webster

  4th Of July, Liberty, Wholesomeness

  Speech at Charleston Bar Dinner, Charleston, S.C., 10 May 1847

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• Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Water, Balance, Elements

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.17

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• Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

  William Blake

  Race, Poetry, Flourishing

  Jerusalem "To the Public" plate 1 (1815)

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• It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Soul, Flesh

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.193, Tara Publishing

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• Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

  Douglas Horton

  Never Change, Direct, Dissatisfaction

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• I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Moving, Games

  Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.119, University of Chicago Press

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• In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

  Charles Sturt

  Crime, Wales, Colony

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.63

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• Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.

  Paul Bert

  Religion, Morality, March

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• One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

  Eli Whitney

  Fashion, Giving, Tools

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• The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

  John F. Kerry

  Crime, Should, Consequence

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• Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

  Margaret Fuller

  Dream, Reality, Waking

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe”, p.112, tredition

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• Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

  Honore de Balzac

  Weed, Marijuana, Degrees

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