Measure up Quotes

“The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.”

“Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.”

“And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up.”

“Self-correction makes me check the ruler of my life against the yardstick of my inner voice. I acknowledge when I don’t measure up. Self-correction is an ongoing process. If done often enough, I can stop myself from straying off the path.”

“Society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up.”

“To measure up to all that is demanded of him a man must overestimate his capacities.”

“But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common... ”

“When nobody around you seems to measure up it's time to check your yardstick.”

“This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling”