Yardsticks Quotes

Yardsticks Quote of the day

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.

We cannot measure Divine Providence by the yardstick of human mentality.

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures it’s morals

Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.

My yardstick is how somebody treats me.

Success is not rightly measured by wealth, prestige and power. Success is measured by the yardstick of happiness.

To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people.

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.

Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.

Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.

justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.

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.

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

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

For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.

Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.

the giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.

I think that there's a lot of anxiety out there in people wanting their children to be part of the mainstream, to achieve based on the well-worn yardsticks.

I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of love count.

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

Box office figures are not something that can decide the success of a film on its own, but they are one of the many yardsticks that help me measure how well a film has been received.