Quotes About Standards

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.

Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.

As buoyancy is not contrary to other characteristics of leadership, including decisiveness, accountability and performance standards, I don't ever think it can be self-defeating.

At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God?

We must be the ones to re-define the world class standards of excellence

don't think that warriors fit your standards

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.

If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.

If you want to change your life you have to raise your standards.

globalization is about connecting on multiple levels and breaking down many of the walls that separate populations of various origins, customs, and beliefs. Globalization also entails developing systems of government that centralize administration and enforce common standards of behavior.

Your parents' love for you was conditional on your meeting high standards. 2. One or both parents were models of high, unbalanced standards. 3. Your Unrelenting Standards developed as a way to compensate for feelings of defectiveness, social exclusion, deprivation, or failure. 4. One or both parents used shame or criticism when you failed to meet high expectations.

One would truly need a great and spacious makeup kit to compete with beauty as portrayed in media all around us. Yet at the end of the day there would still be those "in the attitude of mocking and point their fingers" as Lehi saw (1 Nephi 8:27) because however much one tries in the world of glamour and fashion, it will never be glamorous enough.

When Congress passes new emission standards, we hire 50 more engineers and GM hires 50 more lawyers.

When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.

Ironically, we practically have to be sainted to get through the adoption process, but any fool can spawn and have a baby, tra la la.

When we impose unrealistic expectations on ourselves, it's natural to force them on everyone else.

There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.

Don't you see? A pretty girl must please the world. But an ugly girl? She's free to please herself.

A pretty girl must please the world. But an ugly girl? She's free to please herself.

With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.