Proportion Quotes

Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. ... Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value.

Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.

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.

The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs.

The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.

He [Christ] protects their faith and gives strength to believers in proportion to the trust that each man who receives that strength is willing to place in him.

There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. So it's much easier to say, 'No comment.'

But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.

The same arguments which go to show that knowledge is power, that the condition of a people is improved in proportion as the masses are educated, have their application with equal weight to the deaf.

My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

Be assured that God does more in us than we for Him; and that what we do is only for Him in proportion as it is He Himself who works it in us.

Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service.

The power that flows from His name, the name Jesus, will be in proportion to our love for His Word.

You will be paid in direct proportion to the value you create in the marketplace.

Your rewards, all the years of your life, will be in precise proportion to your service. You are here to serve others, just as they serve you.

Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.

Our love for God and our appreciation of His love and forgiveness will be in proportion to the recognition of our sin and unworthiness.

Our wealth is rewarded directly in proportion to the number of people with whom we are willing to share.

The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.

I suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I'm ripped, doing something I wouldn't normally do with my body, or having done to it, involving Watson.

The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.

Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.

While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.

Your business and results are a reflection of you. Your business and results will grow in direct proportion to your own growth.

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.

Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted.

We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.

I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

Peace is in proportion to every pause: observe the difference between to run, to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie, to die.

A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.

The dolphins and whales have a brain that is actually bigger in proportion to their size than we do. They are very complex. They are thinkers.

Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

I have not only Arms but a large proportion of Armourers to make.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

The degree to which you will awaken is in direct proportion to the amount of truth you are willing to accept about yourself.

The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.