Standards Quotes - Page 7

I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.

Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.

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.

I hold myself to a very high standard, and I hold my contributions to that same high standard. I will not accept any contributions that are illegal, inappropriate or tainted.

We say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God.

There are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

You cannot lay down a standard which all must follow.

Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

You have set standards for how you want to be treated and what you expect from yourself and for yourself.

America's highest economic need is higher ethical standards -- enforced by strict laws and upheld by responsible business leaders.

I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.

The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste?

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.

A vendor neutral, standards-based approach must be adopted

When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

I'm privileged to have followed Sir Matt because all you have to do is to try and maintain the standards that he set so many years ago.

Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally.

The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.

The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.

In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.

You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.

Now is the time to set your life's goals. Now is the time to set your standards firmly and then hold to them throughout your life.