Yardsticks Quotes

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

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.72, Prabhat Prakashan

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, America, Tests

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• 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

  Success, Congratulations, Teaching

  "Professor celebrating Barbara Bush’s death deserves to be fired" by Lauren DeBellis Appell, www.foxnews.com.

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• 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

  Men, Different, Use

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

  John Madden

  Soccer, Teamwork, Gratitude

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Risk

  Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds - Part III”, Lulu.com

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• My yardstick is how somebody treats me.

  Truman Capote

  Treats

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.103, Vintage

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Association, Riches

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• Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.

  Emma Goldman

  Love, Mother, Song

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.125, 谷月社

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• 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

  Soul, Beaten, Picks

  "How the Hidden Dangers of Comparison Are Killing Us ... (and Our Daughters): The Measuring Stick Principle" by Ann Voskamp, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2013.

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• History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!

  Leon Trotsky

  War, Slave Owners, Different

  Leon Trotsky (1968). “Their morals and ours: and , The moralists and sycophants against Marxism”

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

  Peter Drucker

  People, Communicate, Organize

  "The Practice of Management". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1954.

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• Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness;  by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Happiness, Success, Law

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• 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

  Agency, Church, Ethical

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• 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

  Men, Complaining, Waste

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2010). “Mind of the Maker”, p.19, Bloomsbury Publishing

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

  Jasper Fforde

  Taken, Sometimes, Granted

  "The Eyre Affair". Book by Jasper Fforde, July 19, 2001.

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

  Jimmy Swaggart

  Moral, Ministers, Nations

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• 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

  Ties, Lost, Civilisation

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

  Breyten Breytenbach

  Rights, Government, Interest

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• 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

  World, Language, Poet

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• Not the absorption capacity of the land, but the creative ability of a people, is the true yardstick with which we can measure the immigration potentialities of the land.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Land, People, Creative

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

  Fausto Cercignani

  People, Judgement, Dignity

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

  Carson McCullers

  Justice, Chimera, Equal

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Clock Without Hands”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Critics and fans use the music of their youth as reference points. For years, people seriously wondered who "the next Beatles" were going to be, and classic rock bands were the de facto yardstick for rock quality.

  Michael Azerrad

  Rocks, Years, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.

  Ai Weiwei

  Civilization, Freedom Of Speech, Important

  "Freely Speaking". Interview with Paul D. Miller, realitysandwich.com. August 22, 2012.

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