Quotes About Standards

Standards must be achievable (though achieving them will always require extra effort), and the leaders must provide the means to get there. The focus should always be on getting better and better. We must always reach for the better way.

Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity, An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people

To achieve his purpose, a successful leader must set demanding standards and make sure they are met. Followers want to be "in a good outfit," as we say in the Army. I never saw a good unit that wasn't always stretching to meet a higher standard. The stretching was often accompanied by complaints about the effort required. But when the new standard was met, the followers celebrated with high-fives, pride, and playful gloating.

Both areas are relatively closed populations with low standards of living and both contain Native American reservations. In this context, if one were going to conduct a program of testing new technological toys on an unwitting population

Success is a lot like a bright, white tuxedo. You feel terrific when you get it, but then you're desperately afraid of getting it dirty, of spoiling it in any way.

The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find.

While some consider God's standards as too confining, a true believer sees them as loving and freeing.

The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed.

When I see my staff take a step back because I've lost my cool about something food-related, I say never apologise for your standards. If someone doesn't meet them, then you should explain that and that you want it changed. I want my staff to be like that, too.

Whoever established that standard is deluded. Men are meant to be hard, women soft. It's as simple as that.

Show me a woman who is prouder of her clean kitchen than of her collection of lingerie and I'll show you a woman with enlarged pores.

You're a success because you've done what you meant to do. You're a success by your own standard and it's your own standard that matters.

I'm speaking in very broad brushstrokes, but in France, there's generally this idea that you should look like the best version of the age that you are.

There's a reason why there's a problem with bodies, and it's because you never actually get to see any normal versions of them.

Society has been conditioned for a very long time to see beauty as something that's been westernised.

Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.

My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.

Last time I checked, private nonprofit organizations have a right and a responsibility to be able to set the highest standards and criteria on their own without interference, let alone the level of vicious attacks and coercion that has occurred by Planned Parenthood.

A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.

We have been fed such unreal standards of beauty that we have now become victims and part of this process that one cannot break.

I think sometimes girls look at Victoria's Secret models and think that they have to model themselves after that, but I really don't think that's the best; even though they are called 'models,' they're not the best people to model yourself after.

I wouldn't ever pose naked... I'm fine to do bikinis and certainly lingerie if I feel it's done tastefully... cute like Victoria's Secret, but nothing like raunchy or overly sexual.

You don't see Victoria's Secret women running around with even short hair. That's too crazy for them.