Quotes About Standards

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.

Mediocrity in life is acceptable only when one excels at it.

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

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?

We make no apologies for setting high standards.

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

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

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

The truth is no one should hold you at a higher standard than yourself

Negotiation is permissible for mediocrity not for excellence.

Learn the rules. And play by the rules.

Money and power are not your true rewards. Your name, your principles, your impeccable standards, your virtuous conduct, and remains an influence with others long after you are gone.

You'll never achieve 100 percent if 99 percent is okay.

When, as the result of being exposed to luxurious living, people become hard to please, a curious thing happens. Rather than mourning the loss of their ability to enjoy simple things, they take pride in their newly gained inability to enjoy anything but "the best.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in mind

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

Most certification today is pure 'credentialism.' It must begin to reflect our demand for excellence, not our appreciation of parchment.

there is nothing so brittle as someone else's perfection.

So if you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.