Yardstick Quotes

39 Yardstick quotes by 34 unique authors

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… — Joseph Brodsky
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends,… — Barbara Bush
A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it… — Herb Caen
...the Muslims of recent times had fallen very short indeed of the ideals of their faith, ...nothing could be more erroneous than to measure the… — Muhammad Asad
Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness. — Unknown Author
It is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be taken seriously. I shall never… — Prince Charles
For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth. The… — Barbara Walters
I think I need to spend some time with safari but what arrests my attention are salient, sadomasochism, saccadic, and salad days. I think I… — Dara Wier
The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes… — George Soros
The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures itâ€™s morals — Jimmy Swaggart
Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness;Â by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws. — Paramahansa Yogananda
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… — Dainin Katagiri
Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not… — Wendell Phillips
The more successful you become, the longer the yardstick people use to measure you by. — Tom Landry
Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick. — Dee Hock
The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests. — Breyten Breytenbach
Success is not rightly measured by wealth, prestige and power. Success is measured by the yardstick of happiness. — Paramahansa Yogananda
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
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
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… — Gustav Stresemann

Who Wrote These Yardstick Quotes

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