Standards Quotes

Without standards, there can be no improvement.

I’m a big believer in starting with high standards and raising them. We make progress only when we push ourselves to the highest level. If we don’t progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.

Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen

Don't lower your standards for anything or anyone.

we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

I don't have expectations with people, but I have very high standards for myself. The only time I get disappointed in life is when I disappoint myself.

To create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it.

It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.

You don't have the right to hold somebody accountable for standards you refuse to apply to yourself.

The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.

I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.

The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.

The Standard ... is the standard.

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

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

We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.

Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways.

Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society.

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

When God blesses you financially, don't raise your STANDARD OF LIVING. raise your STANDARD OF GIVING.

If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviours and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

Keep your heel, head and standards high.