Best 374 quotes in «standards quotes» category

You must measure your success and failures by your own standards from within and not by what I or anyone else may think because you are the only person you are competing against in life.

Your progress as a Jiu Jitsu practitioner is a direct reflection of the standards you have for yourself.

You set the standard for how people will treat and regard you, by how you treat and regard yourself.

A definition of faith: everything will be alright by God's standards, maybe not ours, but by His for sure.

According to the world standards, following the prophet may be unpopular, politically incorrect or socially unacceptable, but following the prophet is always right.

A creature that cannot grasp the mutual exclusiveness of A and not A has no difficulty in lying; more than that, such a creature has not even any consciousness of lying, being without a standard of truth.

Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.

Adopt the standard of perfection, because it is a perfect universe.

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.

All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.

Alignment = Magic & Miracles ... Keep your standards high. YOU are worth it!

All the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry.

Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.

Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.

As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.

A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual.

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards.

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

A vendor neutral, standards-based approach must be adopted

Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard.

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

Behavior of such cunning cruelty that only a human being could have thought of or contrived it we call 'inhuman,' revealing thus some pathetic ideal standard for our species that survives all betrayals.

Be certain that you easily clear the minimum standards for service as a missionary and that you are continually raising the bar.

Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves.

By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others.

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.

Cosmoe works on any of the standard filesystems available for Linux.

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out, while Romantic grows from outside in.

Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.

Different parents have different standards for their children.

Don’t be afraid to discard work you know isn’t up to standard. Don’t save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it.

Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.

Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.

Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards.

Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.

Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.

Every president developed his own style. You know that we don't recruit them to a certain standard.

Excellence is greater than an achievement; excellence is standard in all my designs

Fully "biodegradable" structures are nowadays the ideal and the standards to which most, if not all structures, struggle to measure up.

God's standard of judgment goes down to the intents of the heart.

God set the standard for giving love that demands nothing in return.

God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

Good enough never is. Set your standards so high that even the flaws are considered excellent.