Lower Standards Quotes

#1. We tend to live down to other people's expectations, especially the people closest to us. It is more difficult to obtain approval of people who hold us in high regard than to accept the lower standards that other people hold of us.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#2. The Christian market has less competition and lower standards.

Jerry B. Jenkins

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

Alfie Kohn

#4. Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilisation than other creatures, and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena.

H. Jay Dinshah

#5. Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.

Tamar Braxton

#6. Ladies, set your standards high. Never lower them.. The day you do, you will get less then what you deserve.
Every woman, deserves to be treated like a queen with respect. It's better to be single and fabulous on your own then to be in a relationship that isn't what you always dreamed of.

Erica Maples And Stefany Terherst

#7. ... some leaders don't want to celebrate with their team because they are afraid - yes, afraid that if they celebrate, people will quit working hard and lower the standards. I say don't let your fear take you out.

Lee Ellis

#8. I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art.

Sholom Aleichem

#9. Warriors do not lower themselves to the standards of other people; they live independently according to their own standards and code of honor.

Bohdi Sanders

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

Michael Porter

#11. As one student said, Lower your standards and relax as it is.

Pema Chodron

#12. Never lower your standards just to fill a position. You will pay for it later.

David Cottrell

#13. Bellamy took a step back. "What? And put you in charge of those as well?" He ran his finger along the bow. "No way. I'm ready to hunt." Graham snorted. "And what exactly did you hunt back on Walden except for girls with low standards and even lower self-esteem?" Bellamy

Kass Morgan

#14. No! Be weak! Give up! You can't do everything. Lower your standards. Get friends to come and help you.

Tom Hodgkinson

#15. When you reach a place where you feel blocked, lower your standards and keep on going. There is no possible way to do permanent damage to a piece of writing. You cannot ruin it. You can only make it a little better a little at a time.

Richard Bausch

#16. I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

Adriana Trigiani

#17. It has no enforceable standards to stop a union from conspiring with employers to keep another stronger union out or from negotiating contracts with lower pay and standards that members of another union have spent a lifetime establishing.

Andy Stern

#18. No picture should lower the moral standards of those who see it.

Ben Shapiro

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

Martha Stewart

#20. I don't believe in "writers block." Lower your standards and keep writing. You can always go back later and make it better. Unless your name is Harlan Ellison, in which case your sentences come out perfectly parsed each time.

Marvin J. Wolf

#21. The standards to get in are very high. We don't want to lower those standards.

Hugh Shelton

#22. Morality in its noblest forms remains inexplicable unless one takes into account that power of growth in the human soul which has led generation after generation from lower religious and ethical standards to higher ones which often clash with worldly advantages.

Ellen Key

#23. As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

Robin Williams

#24. I'm going to join that dating agency it's going to open me up to new people; widen my horizons'
'you mean lower your standards and get you dating retards!

Eleanor Prescott

#25. When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#26. We are in a race between knowledge and catastrophe. If we keep track of what is important, never lower our standards or forget why we are here, we have the ability to determine the fate of the world.

Dean Kamen

#27. I will not lower the standard of the Bible to my level of experience.

Bill Johnson

#28. I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing ...

Jacob M. Appel

#29. Dont lower your standards for anyone or anything. Self respect is everything.

Auliq Ice

#30. Don't lower your standards for anything or anyone.

Rihanna

#31. Rock stars hawking Diet Cokes
are demons set loose on the Earth to lower the standards for the perfect & holy children of God!

Bill Hicks

#32. If we cannot return to fiscal integrity because the public prefers profusion and prodigality over balanced budgets, we cannot escape paying the price, which is ever lower incomes and standards of living for all.

Hans F. Sennholz

#33. If you lower the standards of your life and expect to live life like the people in a movie or a soap opera, you are not living God's will for your life.

Sue Detweiler

#34. Everybody achieves success in life - a blessed few early in their careers, the rest of us when we lower our standards

Dag Ekeberg

#35. Set a high standard on how you treat women. Whether they appreciate it or not, don't lower your own standards of behavior.

Steve Maraboli

#36. We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.

Jaron Lanier

#37. If they cannot meet your standards, don't lower your standards so that they can.

Pierre Alex Jeanty

#38. The Republicans have lost their standards; they've lost their principles ... Really, that's why the machine in the Republican Party is fighting against me ... They have never really gone along with lower taxes and less government.

Sharron Angle