"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." -- Vince Lombardi

"The complexity of a given line dance is inversely proportional to the average IQ of the people doing it." -- Dave Barry, Book of Bad Songs

"The lasting sweetness of the wealth obtained is directly proportional to the honesty of its source. Dishonest wealth does not last." -- Israelmore Ayivor

"The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply." -- Denis Waitley

"The desired shape your dreams take is directly proportional to the practical presentation of the theoretical skills that you have learnt." -- Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

Your daily output is directly proportional to your daily thoughts while your activity or passivity remains as a constant. You get what you think to do provided you do it!" -- Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

"Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions." -- Coco Chanel

"Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns." -- Arne Jacobsen

"There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics." -- Philip Treacy

"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence." -- Hume

"Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small." -- Corrie ten Boom

"Proportion is the heart of beauty." -- Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

"I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." -- Henry David Thoreau

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." -- Anais Nin

"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth." -- Ernest Hemingway

"I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying." -- Tom Hopkins

"The pain we feel When someone leaves our life is in direct proportion to the joy they bring while a part of our life for a few moments. In my life you made me feel as if I truly meant something to someone."

"A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth." -- Will Rogers

"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age." -- Ernest Hemingway

"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them." -- Christian Nevell Bovee

"The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy. -- Anatole France

"The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved." -- C. Northcote Parkinson

"Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt." -- Henry Louis Mencken

"The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill." -- Bryan Miller

"The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example)." -- Bryan Miller

"We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears." -- François de la Rochefoucauld

"The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line." -- Charles Edward Montague

"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."

"Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes." -- Doug Horton

"In political discussion heat is in inverse proportion to knowledge."

"Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand." -- Craig Bruce