The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
A man's conflicts represent what he 'really' is.
The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Man is the measure of all things.