Standards Quotes - Page 2

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

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.

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

If you like me, raise your hand. If you don't, raise your standards

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

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

Ideology is a certain unique experience of the universe and your place in it, to put it in standard terms, which serves the production of the existing power relations and blah blah blah.

I believe in the gold standard. I like solid lumps of things. You can always melt them down.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

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

We make no apologies for setting high standards.

In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.

Welbeck is not the standard required at Manchester United.

Nobody owes anybody anything; it's up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.

I set my standards so high, no one could be harsher on me than I was.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

The rotten apple spoils his companion.

When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.

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

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.

There is only one standard - a global standard. Be consistent, operate at 100% every single time you're given an opportunity.

When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.