Proportion Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.

In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.

The riches they receive will be in exact proportion to the definiteness of their vision, the fixity of their purpose, the steadiness of their faith, and the depth of their gratitude.

Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers.

The Scripture can only be read intelligently by inspired men and women. The value we get from our reading is in direct proportion to the measure in which we are filled with God's Spirit.

Our success in influencing or elevating others is in proportion to their belief in our belief in them.

One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.

I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in the full-figure. I want to abstract forms.

Our rewards in life will always be in exact proportion to the amount of consideration we show toward others.

An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.

The Plus Factor makes its appearance in a person's life in proportion as that person is in harmony with God and His universal laws.

In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.

Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing!

Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.

There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.

The problem is huge. We've just added seventy-five million people to the already large proportion of people in the world who are malnourished all the time, whose bodies are being starved.

Physiology is the basis of all medical improvement and in precise proportion as our survey of it becomes more accurate and extended, it is rendered more solid.

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.

The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

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

The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.

...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has penetrated his soul.

Life balance is a myth. It's an illusion and the very pursuit of it is driving us crazy. For me it's about proportion - it's really a work hard/play hard equation.

Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.

Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.

Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to your service

I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

People say my ego is grand. I think it's in proportion to me.

I am certainly not a blogger. Quite a large proportion of them are nuts and extremists - with the honourable exception of the culture secretary.

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.