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Who you spend time with is who you become! Change your life by consciously choosing to surround yourself with people with higher standards! — Tony Robbins

We must be the ones to re-define the world class standards of excellence — Fela Durotoye

As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards. — George W. Bush

The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims. — Albert Einstein

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

As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured. - New York, Sept. 26, 2007 — George W. Bush

I don't care about what brand you are, I'm concerned what type of man you are, what your principles and standards are. — Mos Def

Standard - no. I hate standards. — Anonymous

All backwoods folks were poor by material standards; they knew how to make do. They were not wanting to tame the wildness, in themselves or nature. — Bell Hooks

How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself. — C.S. Lewis

Be a peacemaker but never at the expense of your character or God's standards. — Jim George

If they cannot meet your standards, don't lower your standards so that they can. — Pierre Alex Jeanty

Having a team deliver standards and performance is much easier when they want to be there and want to be led by you. — Tony Curl

We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior. — Timothy Keller

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

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing. — Susan Sontag

You cannot hold a child accountable to the same standards that you hold an adult accountable to. — Alan Ball

I will no longer be judged by the standards of others. I will judge myself. I will not live by someone else's rules. I will make my own. — Katherine Longshore

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

What really binds men together is their culture, the ideas and the standards they have in common. — Ruth Benedict

We make no apologies for setting high standards. — Nancy L. Zimpher

We created a way of raising standards of living that we can't possibly pass on to our children. — Joseph J. Romm

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

Unfortunately, in American politics there are no standards for shame. — Mark McKinnon

We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't. — Bear Bryant

double mindedness; the mid way between dreams and realities — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The Standard ... is the standard. — Mike Tomlin

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

Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel. — H.L. Mencken

There are no "standards of Right". Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with "moral principle"; there is no such thing. — Aleister Crowley

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance. — Brian Tracy

Universal love is the standard-sized socket that everyone can plug into. No adapting mechanism required. — Allison Mackie

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

What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts. — Jane Alexander

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards. — Rihanna

We were born of God to influence the standards of the world — Sunday Adelaja

Only in more production and in new production can the American standard of living be increased and the economy be sound. — Alfred P. Sloan

Good" is what helps us or at least does not hinder. "Evil" is whatever harms us or interferes with us, according to our own selfish standards. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. — Virginia Woolf

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards. — Alan Bennett

I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards. — S.A. Tawks

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal. — Dorothy L. Sayers

There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them. — Dave Parnas

You figure out what your standards are, and I think that's important. — Neil Patrick Harris

Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad. — Paul A. Volcker

Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962. — Owen Hatherley

Different parents have different standards for their children. — Penelope Spheeris

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold. — Walter Annenberg

A man generally lives up to what is expected of him. — Henrietta C. Mears

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own. — Jean Toomer

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

Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple. — Thomas P.M. Barnett

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards. — Irving Babbitt

By today's beauty standards, of course, Marilyn Monroe was an oil tanker. — Dave Barry

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. — Ruth Benedict

Like us, those vanished warriors planted their standards in the sands of their own self-summoned extinction. — Steven Pressfield

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation. — Joseph Brodsky

A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard — Kate Burridge

Let's not have a double standard. One standard will do just fine. — George Carlin

In the Western standards of modesty, there are different guidelines. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

IE isn't secure and isn't standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for end users and Web content creators. — Paul Thurrott

Performance standards and accountability applied to everyone. — Gary J. Byrne

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

A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization. — Ludwig Von Mises

Coaching is a service. We serve our clients and have their well-being as the higher priority. — Michael J. Marx

Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards. — R.A. Salvatore

We are living on what we believe and the virtues upon which we stand. — Sunday Adelaja

A vendor neutral, standards-based approach must be adopted — Carly Fiorina

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

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. — Noam Chomsky

If you love Southern men, raise your glass. If you don't raise your standards. — Nick Wilgus

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

In the clubs, it's all out and you can say whatever as the character. TV has standards. — Jay Pharoah

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

Standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school. — Stockwell Day

Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive. — Eknath Easwaran

By today's standards, if you go by the early morning TV misery shows, my broken home family of mixed parentage siblings was quite normal. — Hailey Giblin

Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher. — John Wanamaker

I feel like there's the 'Hillary standard' and then there's the standard for everybody else. — Hillary Clinton

Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work. — Shelley Winters

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards. — Walt Whitman

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers. — Jonathan Kozol

We are destroying all esthetic standards in the name of social justice. — Harold Bloom

Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy. — Sarah Dessen

Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was - by Time corporate standards - just a little lazy. — David Halberstam

Perfection is the lowest standard of achievement. Doing is the highest. — Andy Jenkins

Live by God's standards and people will follow you. — Sunday Adelaja

If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning. — Alfie Kohn

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations. — Jerrold Nadler

I was a terrible actor, and that's why I got the job: I would allow myself to be so bad that I lowered and got down to WWF standards. — Kurt Fuller

Daphne's thought in Nation:
This was no time to go totally mad. You had to maintain standards. — Terry Pratchett

Living according to God's standards is an acquired taste. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

People are nice to me because of how I like, and part of me likes that, but part of me feels guilty because I haven't done anything to deserve it. — Ted Chiang

Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not. — Robert Mugabe

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

I don't think I ever will do a sex scene because of my religion and my personal standards. — Jon Heder

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

Some people are so into web standards that they've removed all the tables from their houses — Jared Spool

You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are. — Jeph Jacques