Top 70 Stature Quotes

We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

A lot of young guys coming up in this league, they’re given the spotlight right away, depending on draft stature or whatever the case may be.

My family has great stature. And with the right type of training, I was able to put on weight.

The Ambedkar park represents modern Lucknow. It might not have the stature of a historical monument like the Taj Mahal, but it has an architecture which doesn’t fail to impress.

My dad is extremely successful, so I’ve seen the money and luxury growing up. I’m nowhere close to his stature.

Bush the Elder’s stature as president grows with every passing year. He was the finest foreign policy president I’ve ever covered and a man who defied his party on tax increases while imposing budget restrictions on the Democrats.

The distribution might which Penguin brought to the table and the stature they gave me as an author is unparalleled.

It’s fun to look over there and see a guy with as a great stature as John Elway. It’s really cool that he went to one of my games.

Why do we cling to bigotry? Because bigotry, plainly, is convenient. It is a near-effortless way to both elevate one’s stature and make a pity grab in this culture of victims that we have become.

My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues I feel passionate about.

When totalitarian regimes are established, they at least have the illusion of the single-minded purpose. But once they establish the stature that’s necessary for a totalitarian regime, they tend to flail.

It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.

I am happy with what comes, I don’t have expectations of any stature.

Steve had a broad, easy smile and the biggest hands I had ever seen. I could tell by his stature and stride that he was accustomed to hard work.

As a boy, the very words ‘Liberty Bell’ and ‘Independence Hall’ fired my imagination and made a profound and lasting impression on my mind. Throughout my struggle to secure national freedom for China, I have continuously dreamed of the day when she would assume the full stature of an independent, democratic nation.

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.

If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?

Imagine a superstar of his stature coming to someone like me and saying, ‘Hi Meghana, I’m Mohanlal. Nice to meet you!’ I was so taken aback by his politeness.

Anybody who is really walking with the Lord is embracing the foibles and the beauties and the differences of humanity, regardless of race, color, creed, economic stature and sexual proclivity, whatever. You embrace the beauty of humanity and not be exacting and belittling about the differences.

If the public has given us stature, we must also be answerable to them.

Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.

The deadnettle is the Punxsutawney Phil of the plant world: short of stature but stout of heart. At the first hint of winter’s wane, its stem rises from the ground, and a green, grasping hand of sepals unclenches to divulge two silky-white petals, one of which unfurls straight up toward the sky.

We have a very strong politician of global stature, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. There is no one like him on the world stage.

I was a proponent of the ERA. The women of my generation and my daughter’s generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.

Lincoln’s stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition – in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.

Major religions are examples of ‘noble lies’ aimed at uplifting human stature.

One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people – men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.

The women of my generation and my daughter’s generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.

I have seen ups and downs. When my chips are down, I remind myself of the time when Aamir Khan spoke to me over the phone and praised my work in ‘Dil Dhadakne Do.’ What big a validation that is, someone of Aamir Khan’s stature to be initiating a call with someone like me. It’s a confidence boost!

Show me a team of the stature of Chelsea, Manchester United, Real Madrid, or Barcelona who is not obsessed with winning the Champions League. If they are not, I’d be surprised why they play in it.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place.

I don’t consider myself at the kind of stature of somebody who can play five cities on a tour, and that’s it. I go where I’m wanted, and I’ve always had the rural areas of the country. We’ve always gone there, since the Carolina Chocolate Drops. There’s a fan base that’s there, and if I can afford to do it, I do it.

Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.

People like me might be small in stature, but they can also act.

It’s really flattering to know that a club of Real Madrid’s stature is interested in me.

It’s great to be compared to someone of the stature of Gareth Bale, but I’m happy to be Ryan Sessegnon.

In our 21st-century celebrity culture, we seem to demand an all-or-nothing verdict on any departing figure of public stature.

In fact, I believe the first companies that make an effort to develop an authentic, transparent, and meaningful social contract with their fans and customers will turn out to be the ones that are the most successful in the future. While brands that refuse to make the effort will lose stature and customer loyalty.

I earn – I’m not – I don’t want to claim I’m a scholar of great stature, but I have made a certain reputation for myself, I’ve published several books, I’ve never been able to get a permanent teaching job.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man’s stature as to his happiness.

I was always driven by the idea that if people ever found out about who I was then the stature I created for myself within rugby would have to be as relevant as the fact I was gay. It was always the driving factor to be the strongest, the fastest, the most skilful.

It’s one of those once in a lifetime opportunities for me to be sharing the screen with a star of the stature of Pawan Kalyan, and I jumped at it. The intensity that he brings to the screen is incredible, he’s a phenomenal performer.

Saudi Arabia is defined and represented by its Islamic stature.

If you worry about the batsmen or their stature, then you cannot play to your strengths.

Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.

One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can’t interview someone of that stature.

I didn’t have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.

My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who’s strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think.

Is the U.S. better or is the world better? Is the U.S. better off today than we were four years ago? Obviously not, economically not. I think our stature in the world is not the same.