Definition of Yardstick

Yardstick

A stick three feet, or a yard, in length, used as a measure of cloth, etc.

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Yardstick Quotations

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

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

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

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

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals.
Jimmy Swaggart

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

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

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

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

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

That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I've done.
Robert Hamer

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Yardstick Translations

yardstick in Italian is criterio
yardstick in Spanish is vara de medir
yardstick in Swedish is tumstock

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