Having High Standards Quotes

#1. Never apologize for having high standards. People who really want to be in your life will rise up to meet them.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#2. I have a lot of respect for the auto manufacturers. They make a product people live inside - and can die inside - so they are held to very high standards.

Shai Agassi

#3. With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted.

Ralph Raico

#4. Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?

Rush Limbaugh

#5. It's better to be single with high standards than in a relationship settling for less.

Patrick Stevens

#6. I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.

Brett Dennen

#7. I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.

Jim Evans

#8. As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.

George W. Bush

#9. You need to have a culture where people have very high quality standards in everything the company does, but still move quickly.

Sam Altman

#10. I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself.

Olivia Newton-John

#11. God has set up a high standard of righteousness. He has made plain a distinction between human and divine wisdom. All who work on Christ's side must work to save, not to destroy.

Ellen G. White

#12. Keep your heel, head and standards high.

Coco Chanel

#13. Mediocrity is already a high standard.

Marty Rubin

#14. Aspire to high standards, expect strong results, offer self praise, and stack your confidence.

Lorii Myers

#15. People ask me all the time what it is about Australia that produces so many big stars. Honestly, I believe it is a combination of things. Our education standards are quite high, but our industry is very limited. Yet we're very aware of the industry - everyone goes to the theater, sees TV shows.

Margot Robbie

#16. I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

Haruki Murakami

#17. Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.

Edgar Meyer

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

John Wooden

#19. We make no apologies for setting high standards.

Nancy L. Zimpher

#20. The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger of history is that we use it as an excuse and remain trapped in it. I cannot blame my history for anything, and therefore I have to have high standards for myself.

Stefan Molyneux

#21. You have people with high standards and values as well as people with low ones no matter where you are

Amanda Lee

#22. Musical integrity means a lot to me, personally for myself, I don't really care if other people can't even sing or whatever. For myself I have high standards.

The Rocket Summer

#23. Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards, we should use them.

Estelle Morris

#24. Lord, help my children to make godly friends. I know that You brought us here and You will not leave my children forsaken. I'm concerned that in their need for acceptance they'll end up with friends whose moral standards are not as high as Yours. Bring godly role models into their lives.

Stormie O'martian

#25. As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform.

Don Shula

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

Patrice Motsepe

#27. I do have impossibly high standards.

Kate Winslet

#28. I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

Yousuf Karsh

#29. Today the Secretary of State said that of the 247 candidates, so far 115 of them have been certified. How embarrassing is that? Imagine if you were turned down because you didn't meet the high standards set by Larry Flynt and Gallagher.

Jay Leno

#30. 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

#31. Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge; I can't think about filling them.

Randy West

#32. Excellence calls for character ... integrity ... fairness ... honesty ... a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.

Price Pritchett

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

Temple Grandin

#34. Every measurement of where you have more public confidence in creating jobs, American prosperity, controlling crime, health care, providing education, all of these standards, Bill Clinton has considerably high marks. The sole exception is on protecting taxes, which is initially his attack.

Mark Shields