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Who you spend time with is who you become! Change your life by consciously choosing to surround yourself with people with higher standards!
— Tony Robbins
As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.
— George W. Bush
The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.
— Albert Einstein
Always live up to your standards - by lowering them, if necessary.
— Mignon McLaughlin
As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured. - New York, Sept. 26, 2007
— George W. Bush
I don't care about what brand you are, I'm concerned what type of man you are, what your principles and standards are.
— Mos Def
Standard - no. I hate standards.
— Anonymous
All backwoods folks were poor by material standards; they knew how to make do. They were not wanting to tame the wildness, in themselves or nature.
— Bell Hooks
If they cannot meet your standards, don't lower your standards so that they can.
— Pierre Alex Jeanty
Having a team deliver standards and performance is much easier when they want to be there and want to be led by you.
— Tony Curl
We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
— Timothy Keller
[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.
— Susan Sontag
You cannot hold a child accountable to the same standards that you hold an adult accountable to.
— Alan Ball
I will no longer be judged by the standards of others. I will judge myself. I will not live by someone else's rules. I will make my own.
— Katherine Longshore
What really binds men together is their culture, the ideas and the standards they have in common.
— Ruth Benedict
We make no apologies for setting high standards.
— Nancy L. Zimpher
We created a way of raising standards of living that we can't possibly pass on to our children.
— Joseph J. Romm
By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others.
— David Lloyd George
We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.
— Bear Bryant
double mindedness; the mid way between dreams and realities
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The Standard ... is the standard.
— Mike Tomlin
By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.
— Robert Quine
Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.
— H.L. Mencken
There are no "standards of Right". Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with "moral principle"; there is no such thing.
— Aleister Crowley
Universal love is the standard-sized socket that everyone can plug into. No adapting mechanism required.
— Allison Mackie
Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.
— Anton Chekhov
What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.
— Jane Alexander
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
— Irving Babbitt
We were born of God to influence the standards of the world
— Sunday Adelaja
Only in more production and in new production can the American standard of living be increased and the economy be sound.
— Alfred P. Sloan
Good" is what helps us or at least does not hinder. "Evil" is whatever harms us or interferes with us, according to our own selfish standards.
— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
— Virginia Woolf
I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards.
— S.A. Tawks
Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
You figure out what your standards are, and I think that's important.
— Neil Patrick Harris
Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad.
— Paul A. Volcker
Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962.
— Owen Hatherley
Different parents have different standards for their children.
— Penelope Spheeris
What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
— Walter Annenberg
A man generally lives up to what is expected of him.
— Henrietta C. Mears
There is only one standard - a global standard. Be consistent, operate at 100% every single time you're given an opportunity.
— Komla Dumor
Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.
— Thomas P.M. Barnett
Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
— Irving Babbitt
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.
— Ruth Benedict
Like us, those vanished warriors planted their standards in the sands of their own self-summoned extinction.
— Steven Pressfield
Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.
— Joseph Brodsky
In the Western standards of modesty, there are different guidelines.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
IE isn't secure and isn't standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for end users and Web content creators.
— Paul Thurrott
Performance standards and accountability applied to everyone.
— Gary J. Byrne
Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards.
— Martha Stewart
A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Coaching is a service. We serve our clients and have their well-being as the higher priority.
— Michael J. Marx
Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.
— R.A. Salvatore
A vendor neutral, standards-based approach must be adopted
— Carly Fiorina
A definition of faith: everything will be alright by God's standards, maybe not ours, but by His for sure.
— Mark R. Woodward
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
— Noam Chomsky
Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
In the clubs, it's all out and you can say whatever as the character. TV has standards.
— Jay Pharoah
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school.
— Stockwell Day
Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive.
— Eknath Easwaran
By today's standards, if you go by the early morning TV misery shows, my broken home family of mixed parentage siblings was quite normal.
— Hailey Giblin
Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.
— John Wanamaker
I feel like there's the 'Hillary standard' and then there's the standard for everybody else.
— Hillary Clinton
Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work.
— Shelley Winters
God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.
— Walt Whitman
I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.
— Jonathan Kozol
Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was - by Time corporate standards - just a little lazy.
— David Halberstam
Live by God's standards and people will follow you.
— Sunday Adelaja
If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.
— Alfie Kohn
Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.
— Jerrold Nadler
I was a terrible actor, and that's why I got the job: I would allow myself to be so bad that I lowered and got down to WWF standards.
— Kurt Fuller
Daphne's thought in Nation:
This was no time to go totally mad. You had to maintain standards. — Terry Pratchett
This was no time to go totally mad. You had to maintain standards. — Terry Pratchett
Living according to God's standards is an acquired taste.
— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
People are nice to me because of how I like, and part of me likes that, but part of me feels guilty because I haven't done anything to deserve it.
— Ted Chiang
Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not.
— Robert Mugabe
I don't think I ever will do a sex scene because of my religion and my personal standards.
— Jon Heder
The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
— William Osler