We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare not by how many are added.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon and none beyond it?

Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget but in the size of our hearts in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.

We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget but in the size of our hearts in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions but by his habitual acts.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.