Quotes of: Yardstick Keyword

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

You can't measure the whole world with your own yardstick.

Yiddish

For children, parents are a yardstick for normalcy.

Upasana Saraf

That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I've done.

Robert Hamer

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

John Madden

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

Breyten Breytenbach

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

Earl Nightingale

I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

Nicolas Roeg

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Steve Jobs

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals.

Jimmy Swaggart

Don't allow money to become the yardstick by which you measure the worth of the world around you!

Circle In the Sand

There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.

Karl Lehmann

History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick.

Gustav Stresemann

I'm not particularly needy, and I'm not particularly anxious. I don't look for a director to tell me I'm doing a good job or that I'm great. I don't need to be stroked. It's more my own yardstick.

Cate Blanchett

Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

Ann Voskamp

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

Joseph Brodsky

The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.

Dainin Katagiri

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

Lennart Meri

To get the most from agricultural resources, poor farmers' needs must come first, guiding investment strategies and forming the yardstick for gauging results.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Barbara Bush