Best 374 quotes in «standards quotes» category

Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.

Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest.

Lower your standards and relax as it is.

Lowering your standards is the key to happiness.

Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of exchange. But it cannot be its own or its own standard of comparison.

Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

McIlroy's taken the standard of golf to one level beyond where Tiger was.

My playing is fairly straightforward, really, and everything's pretty much standard no frills or special effects.

Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all.

National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.

Many companies at the 2013 NAB show were showing LTO tape archiving technology. The LTO Consortium had a popular exhibit at the 2013 NAB promoting the new LTO 6 tape standard.

Never lower your standards just to fill a position. You will pay for it later.

Nixon would like to consign us to to the level of the most backward countries in the whole Middle East. Why lower us to the standard of the Saudis rather than raising the Saudis to meet us?

Nebraska sets the standard for how fans should act.

Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.

Nothing is sadder than the consequences of having worldly standards without worldly means.

Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.

No longer are there immutable standards by which to judge ourselves. Image has overtaken reality.

Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation.

Obviously there are different standards and practices that are allowed on cable versus network. You just have to embrace what your network is going to allow.

Of all the judgments we make through life, none are more important than the estimate we place on ourselves according to our own internal standards.

Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.

Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.

Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.

Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does

On the [Andrew] Puzder point, I do agree there has been a double standard.

Paper remains the standard to which digital media can only aspire.

People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.

On the Intel platform, Microsoft is the defacto standard. It's the weather.

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards.

Perfection is the lowest standard of achievement. Doing is the highest.

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards.

Somehow we have to detach from feeling as though money is a quick and easy standard by which we can gauge how well we're doing.

People most strenuously seek to evaluate performance by comparing themselves to others, not by using absolute standards.

Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.

Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama.

Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

Standards are like toothbrushes. Everybody wants one but nobody wants to use anybody else’s.

Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.