Yardstick Quotes
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Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness.
— H. W. Janson
Don't allow money to become the yardstick by which you measure the worth of the world around you!
— Andrew James Pritchard
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
The giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.
— Laura Huxley
I was guided by Allah (God) to give a yardstick to the voting public, particularly Black people as to what will set that candidate apart from others.
— Louis Farrakhan
Within half an hour almost all the women were drunk, a yardstick Laing had long used to measure the success of a party.
— J.G. Ballard
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
My yardstick is how somebody treats me.
— Truman Capote
You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.
— Earl Nightingale
For children, parents are a yardstick for normalcy.
— Upasana Saraf
It's hazardous, though, being that much to someone. When you're the yardstick that everything else is measure against, eventually, you just fail.
— Brenna Yovanoff
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
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
— Steve Jobs
The ability to analyze others' arguments can also serve as a yardstick for when to withdraw from discussions that will most likely be futile.
— Ali Almossawi
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people.
— Barbara Bush
Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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 minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals.
— Jimmy Swaggart
Even terror needs a yardstick, and surely the yardstick for the unknown is the known?
— Carsten Jensen
Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.
— Fausto Cercignani
If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.
— Khalil Gibran
There is no yardstick for measuring love; nevermind that the heart doesn't follow rules
— Franklin Veaux
The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
— Breyten Breytenbach
The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.
— Therese Of Lisieux
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.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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
Success is not rightly measured by wealth, prestige and power. Success is measured by the yardstick of happiness.
— Paramahansa Yogananda