Measuring Up Quotes:

It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

topic: Youth, Live In The Present, Measuring Up, Insufficiency

The deepest fear we have, 'the fear beneath all fears,' is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It's this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life.

- Tullian Tchividjian

topic: Stress, Everyday, Judgment, Measuring Up, Deepest Fear

Hugh Laurie was intimidating, but he's the greatest guy. He's so wonderful and smart and funny and serious, and he sets the bar high. So if I was scared, it's because I wasn't measuring up.

- Peter Jacobson

topic: Smart, Guy, Bars, Measuring Up, Smart And Funny

We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal. Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves the way we are, and why we don't accept others the way they are.

- Miguel Angel Ruiz

topic: Motivational, Mean, Self, Measuring Up

It is not a lack of spiritual experience that leads to failure, but a lack of working to keep our eyes focused and on the right goal. At least once a week examine yourself before God to see if your life is measuring up to the standard He has for you. Paul was like a musician who gives no thought to audience approval, if he can only catch a look of approval from his Conductor.

- Oswald Chambers

source: "My Utmost for His Highest".

topic: Spiritual, Eye, Giving, Measuring Up