Standards Quotes

Advance our standards, set upon our foes; Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George, Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!

I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.

The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.

Universal love is the standard-sized socket that everyone can plug into. No adapting mechanism required.

A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.

Perfection is the lowest standard of achievement. Doing is the highest.

Jesus raised the standard high so we would realize we couldn’t possibly do it without a savior.

Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.

If we're serious about building an economy that lasts, we have got to get serious about education. We are going to have to pick up our games and raise our standards.

It’s amazing how life will organize around the standards you set for yourself.

The Mafia has higher standards than the Catholic Church hierachy because if their members were "raping children, they'd off them."

I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.

As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards.

It is possible to rise to the lofty standard set by the Lord for priesthood holders in making decisions in quorums. It is possible when there is great faith and love and the absence of contention.

The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic.

All of the common core standards stuff about critical reading and critical thinking and so on can only be positive.

There is no question we need higher academic standards and at the local level the rigor of the Common Core state standards must be the new minimum in classrooms.

I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.

There are elements of Piglet that are me: the shyness and the anxieties and fears. Even after all these years. The more you know, the higher your standards are and the more you have to lose.

I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the terrible cruelty of poverty.

There are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance.

Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards.

Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards.

When evaluating a model, at least two broad standards are relevant. One is whether the model is consistent with the data. The other is whether the model is consistent with the 'real world.'

I will not calm down! Women are allowed to get angrier than men about double standards.

There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.

Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.

A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual.

Many companies at the 2013 NAB show were showing LTO tape archiving technology. The LTO Consortium had a popular exhibit at the 2013 NAB promoting the new LTO 6 tape standard.

I don't have an attitude, I have standards for the people who are supposed to be my friends.

You don't have a baby based on that publicity madness. People don't live like that. Especially black people who were raised in families with morals and standards and integrity.

Part of the challenge of being a girl living in the 21st Century, looking back, the danger is to not judge your character by your own standards.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it.

I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.

Maybe the standards should be higher to be an officer. People will say there area high standards, but clearly they're not high enough.

Leaders must live by higher standards than their followers.

I can't help it! I'm just a woman with high standards!

I dont claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

I have very high standards for myself and my career.

Being a professional does not have a very high standard.

Serena and I, we don't have anything to prove ... we still set a very high standard.

Having played in both competitions over recent years I believe that although standards continue to rise in Super League, the NRL is a better competition.

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

I think the ethical standards established in this White House have been the highest in the history of the White House.

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.