Quotes About Standards

And in all cases I have been pleasantly shocked to discover that by lowering my standards not only do I feel better about what I do but I tend to do it more effectively.

No matter how much he accomplished he would always raise his standards slightly higher, and then he'd feel miserable.

You too may be paying heavily for your perfectionism.

You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail.

Advertising," he wrote, "now compares with such long-standing institutions as the school and the church in the magnitude of its social influence. It dominates the media, it has vast power in the shaping of popular standards and it is really one of the very limited groups of institutions which exercise social control.

Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was—by Time corporate standards—just a little lazy.

Black skin privilege guarantees not only exemptions from intellectual and political standards that others are required to meet but from moral standards as well.

The only way to bring Democrats down to earth, where they might feel subject to the same standards as everyone else, is to attack them with the same moral force they use to prosecute their mission; the only way to do it is to turn their fire on them. To do this, Republicans need to direct their arrows at the Achilles' heel of the Democratic Party: its monopoly control of the inner cities of America and its responsibility for the misery and suffering inside them.

In France, being exigeant, or discriminating, is considered a positive quality,

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe, whose timeless standards cannot be ignored with impunity.

God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.

The cross is where God forgave his children without lowering his standards.

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

How awful to be a perfect beauty! How confusing! God. Can you imagine?

Even people who don't share my specific faith (denomination, beliefs, etc.) are typically enthusiastic about my profession of faith in God and my commitment to living to God-given standards.

God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.

Rock stars hawking Diet Cokes--are demons set loose on the Earth to lower the standards for the perfect & holy children of God!

My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.

My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.

I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God.

God elevates nations that behave in conformity with God's standards but he withdraws his blessings from a people who disregard those standards.

Standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school.

We can often do more by doing less. God is not particularly interested in quantity production. That is an American standard, not a Bible standard.