Yardstick Quotes

39 quotes by 34 authors

Security isn't what the wise person looks for; it's opportunity. And once we begin looking for that, we find it on every side. You can… — Earl Nightingale
Money has, as we know, no value in itself. It is a convenient yardstick for a large number of material values. But the health and… — Karl Evang
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
But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. — Steve Jobs
The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else. — John Madden
You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together. — Earl Nightingale
Now, brethren, do not expect perfection in your choice of a mate. Do not be so particular that you overlook her most important qualities of… — Ezra Taft Benson
Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted. — Jasper Fforde
One good yardstick as to whether a person might be the right one for you is this: in her presence, do you think your noblest… — Ezra Taft Benson
My yardstick is how somebody treats me. — Truman Capote
Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth. — Tamora Pierce
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… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the… — Mamata Banerjee
I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? — Dwight D. Eisenhower
That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I've done. — Robert Hamer
The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals. — Jimmy Swaggart
Failure in any thing is not the yardstick for measuring who you really are. — Prodigy

Who Wrote These Yardstick Quotes

34 authors contributed a total of 39 Yardstick Quotes, led by these top contributors: