Yardsticks Quotes

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.

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

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

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

What is man that his welfare be considered? An ape who chatters of kinship with the archangels while he very filthily digs for groundnuts. And yet I perceive that this same man is a maimed God. He is condemned under penalty to measure eternity with an hourglass and infinity with a yardstick and what is more, he very nearly does it.

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

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

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

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.

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.

My yardstick is how somebody treats me.

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

Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.

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