Browsing Topic Best Standards Quotes

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

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

Love yourself enough to never lower your standards for anyone.

Nobody owes anybody anything; it’s up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.

Without standards, there can be no improvement.

The secret to happiness is to lower your expectations. …that is what you compare your experience with. If your expectations and standards are very high and only allow yourself to be happy when things are exquisite, you’ll never be happy and grateful. There will always be some flaw. But compare your experience with lower expectations, especially something not as good, and you’ll find much in your experience of the world to love, cherish and enjoy, every single moment.

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.

Don’t lower your standards for anyone or anything. Self-respect is everything.

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

Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all these, when in faith and sole allegiance to God he is called to obedient and responsible action: the responsible person, whose life will be nothing but an answer to God’s question and call.

I don’t have expectations with people, but I have very high standards for myself. The only time I get disappointed in life is when I disappoint myself.

If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. By absolute we mean that which always applies, that which provides a final or ultimate standard. There must be an absolute if there are to be morals, and there must be an absolute if there are to be real values. If there is no absolute beyond man’s ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions.

You set the standards for how you will be treated. People will treat you the exact way you treat yourself. So be good to you. Take time for yourself. Rest. Play. Shower yourself with affection, support, and gifts.

There’s no way to succeed in business without the highest ethical standards.

Lowering your standards is the key to happiness.

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.

It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.

As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

It’s easy to run to others. It’s so hard to stand on one’s own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can’t fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It’s easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It’s simple to seek substitutes for competence–such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy is certainly one of the most valuable of the modern improvements in the practice of government.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Why is it that Christian activists are regularly pilloried for basing social standards on biblical texts while liberals are actually praised for mixing religion and politics?

With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.

All messages from Satan are played forward and are in standard American English.

Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world’s peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it – that is true civilization

No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross — was that a failure.

We set the standard of how we want to be treated. Our relationships are reflections of the relationships we have with ourselves.

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen

It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet.