Standards Quotes

Too easy to get = Just as easy to forget.

~ Mandy Hale

Sit your affections, your heart and your precious time out on the doorstep without so much as making him ring the doorbell first, and he’ll treat you like a doormat. Make him work a little to get next to you, and he won’t stop til you’re his.

~ Mandy Hale

Here's a glorious thought: You don't have to settle. Ever. In life, in love, in your career…ANYWHERE!

~ Mandy Hale

A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure.

~ Amit Kalantri

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

~ Walt Whitman

The biggest insult to any parent is a child that lives up to society standards and not his or her full potential.

~ Unarine Ramaru

There is nothing better for your family than for you to be at your best, for you to be at your own peace, for you to be showing them in every way who you are, and what you stand for.

~ Steve Maraboli

In other words, for purposes of sex discrimination law, to be a woman means either to be like a man or like a lady. We have to meet either the male standard for males or the male standard for females.

~ Catharine Mackinnon

Valys also didn't think I was good enough for him. He made that clear every time he acted like a martyr forced to settle. But what he didn't understand was that if he thought I might not be good enough for him, he definitely wasn't good enough for me. I was well aware of my flaws, but I knew my merits, too; I shouldn't have to be anyone's second-best. Least of all, his.

~ Nenia Campbell

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

~ Susan Sontag

Although once when we were talking after class, Herr Silverman told me that when someone rises up and holds himself to a higher standard, even when doing so benefits others, average people resent it, mostly because they’re not strong enough to do the same.

~ Matthew Quick

The new dumb, is now wisdom.

~ Anthony Liccione

All the words that appear in the inner circle are attributes of God. To develop a relationship with Him we must know the implications of each for our lives. We need truth. His Word contains it. We need the ability to understand the truth. His Spirit will teach us. We need strength to cope with inner turmoil. His is omnipotent. We need a model to follow. Christ is God in human form. We need standards. He is righteous. We need acceptance. He is love. We need to know who is in charge. He is.

~ J. Grant Howard

We are living on what we believe and the virtues upon which we stand.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The point to life is not only to live it, but to enjoy it.

~ Korey G. Miracle

Don't let yourself stagnate or reach a plateau. Keep learning, keep improving. Be open to change. Your ability to constantly raise the bar higher and set standards will help you evolve and take you to the next level.

~ Roopleen

If you set a clear standard for yourself, for how you wish to be treated — people take note.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I cannot say enough of appreciation for your determination to live by the standards of the Church, to walk with the strength of virtue, to keep your minds above the slough of filth which seems to be moving like a flood across the world. Thank you for knowing there is a better way. Thank you for the will to say no. Thank you for the strength to deny temptation and look beyond and above to the shining light of your eternal potential.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

Don’t lower your standards to keep anyone, if they’re not making you happy, it’s time to find someone who does.

~ Robert Tew

Just because she has high standards, doesn't mean she’s high maintenance. Don’t confuse the two.

~ Steve Maraboli

Friends, are you a man according to Gods definition? Have you ever placed yourself under God’s microscopic eyes? Have you examined yourself according to his standards of judgment? Does he call you a man

~ Sunday Adelaja

Ladies, don't lower yourself to fight over a man or compete with other women for one. It's not classy, immature, and a waste of time. Instead, use that energy and time wisely by achieving goals and being a better you. This way, you attract someone better than a man that doesn't see the jewel that you are. Have standards always.

~ April Mae Monterrosa

One key quality of all global achievers is that, they keep improving day after day. They set standards that they keep surpassing year after year.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you don't break your own standards, you will not reach new heights and levels. It is by stretching our limits that we move beyond boundaries. Keep improving!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You are heading towards the top if you raise the bar of your standards inch by inch each hour! There is no quick way to success, it comes in installments. Every day's activity is a minor contribution to a heavy pay of success. Don't waste the day!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The economy of your country shall never determine the size of your three square meals if you know you can rise against and above all limitations! The climatic emergencies in the weather shall never determine your survival rates if you know you are above their standards!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I think we often hold heroines to an absurd standard. Be brave! Be wise! Always know what's in your heart and speak the truth of it! No and no and no. We fight to be brave. We learn to be wise. We struggle to know ourselves and voice what we want.

~ Leigh Bardugo

If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother?

~ Ashly Lorenzana

Keep your standards even when everyone around you is losing theirs.

~ Habeeb Akande

Find what is meaningful to you and stand by it. Even if you begin to wonder if there is any meaning to anything, continue to be yourself.

~ Jay Woodman

Timeless principles never age, and truth is as young as the day it was spoken into existence.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

~ Richelle Mead

Nowadays the standards had plummeted so far that I failed even at being a failure. I silently packed up. Nothing else was left. They had even robbed me of self-pity

~ Arthur Nersesian

When we stake a claim to the needs and wants of our life, we may easily fail to live up to the standards of others. Empathy and connectedness, however, might bridge the gap, by stirring our consciousness of the sensitive queries and by assessing the intricate framework of our surroundings with their countless, prickly nitty-gritties. (Absence of Desire)

~ Erik Pevernagie

The more you pray, the more you are stating your desire to live your life by God’s standards.

~ Jim George

Set the standards for what you expect of people and the correct ones will join your cause.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You set the standard for how people will treat and regard you, by how you treat and regard yourself.

~ Bryant Mcgill

You cannot ask someone to like you or love you more than you like or love yourself. YOU have to set the standard.

~ Mandy Hale

The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism; and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law of consciousness abides.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.

~ Gian-Carlo Rota