Standards Quotes

The greatest leverage you can create for yourself is the pain that comes from inside, not outside. Knowing that you have failed to live up to your own standards for your life is the ultimate pain.

KFC has no excuse for refusing to adopt these basic, minimal animal-welfare standards ... After two years of fruitless negotiations with the company, we're trying a more personal approach.

I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season.

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

I have a lot of respect for the auto manufacturers. They make a product people live inside - and can die inside - so they are held to very high standards.

Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all.

How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps.

Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?

I'm tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that's also part of my pleasure: Knowing you are being your fullest self. Being your fullest self is a lot of work.

A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept the moral standards of this world.

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

Whatever you really want, wants don't get met consistently, standards do.

Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.

The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.

Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.

You've got to set high standards for yourself.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

We yearn for frictionless, technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way norms and standards change.

I will not lower the standard of the Bible to my level of experience.

Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.

Enjoy your work and have ethical standards.

I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed

If you're not doing things right yourself, it's unrealistic to think you can hold other people to a standard.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities

We can't win the struggle for high standards if we just talk a good game . . . we've got to play a good game.

A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.

Integrity is the integration of ideals, convictions, standards, beliefs-and behavior. When our behavior is congruent with our professed values, when ideals and practice match up, we have integrity.

moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how immoral such codes and standards really are.

Men respect women who have standards - get some!

So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you need to go.

Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!

What really binds men together is their culture, the ideas and the standards they have in common.

My mother told me, you don't have to put anything in your mouth you don't want to. Then she made me eat broccoli, which felt like double standards.

The bottom has fallen out of America's wage floor. And the erosion of the minimum wage has lowered pay and working standards for all of us.

When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of common words.

Set high standards for yourself and don't settle for anything less. You are the best judge of yourself and your capabilities.

We are in a race between knowledge and catastrophe. If we keep track of what is important, never lower our standards or forget why we are here, we have the ability to determine the fate of the world.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose

Do not judge others by your own standards, for everyone is making their way home, in the way they know best.

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.