Quotes About Standards

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

Never apologize for having high standards. People who really want to be in your life will rise up to meet them.

The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others on how you demand to be treated. Don't settle for anything other than respect.

Never settle for less than you're worth. Respect and love yourself, set the standard for others, or you will fail in your search to find the kind of love you want.

Dont lower your standards for anyone or anything. Self respect is everything.

Expect more from yourself. Hold yourself highly accountable. Set high standards. You know the limits of your own greatness. This is NOT it!

Discover why you're important, then refuse to settle for anyone who doesn't completely agree.

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults.

It's hard to grow up in a world where you never feel like you're pretty enough.

Never apologize for showing your high standards. The people who are tending to stay will rise up to meet them.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any

To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not a size zero, you're the beautiful one, its society who's ugly.

To all the girls that think you're ugly because you're not a size 0, you're the beautiful one. It's society who's ugly.

Strong women don't have 'attitudes', we have standards.

Nadia, if all women were to wear paint on their faces, just think, there could be no more natural selection. The inevitable result would be the uglification of the species. You wouldn't want that to happen, would you?

I have always thought that if women's hair posed so many problems, God would certainly have made us bald.

Good" is what helps us or at least does not hinder. "Evil" is whatever harms us or interferes with us, according to our own selfish standards.

When we apologize and confess to others, we communicate that we do not think we are superior, while we also communicate that there are standards by which we are seeking to live.

All other things being equal, you will generally live up or down to expectations.

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

Good clients and customers raise the bar. Bad ones just keep hitting you over the head with it.

Even the Armed Services Vocational Battery, which is a group of tests given to determine whether servicemen who want to join a Special Forces unit are minimally qualified, reveals serious educational problems. Sixty-six percent of all applicants fail to meet the minimum educational standards on the tests. Eighty-six percent of African-American applicants and 79 percent of Hispanic applicants fail.13

In 1999, USA Today analyzed the statistical link between CAFE standards and traffic fatalities and reported that "46,000 people have died in crashes they would have survived in bigger, heavier cars…since 1975."32