Raising My Standards Quotes

#1. The United Nations is an uplifting experiment, dedicated to raising the standards of living in Africa , the consciences of democracies, and the price of prostitutes in New York

Frank Dane

#2. We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.

George F. Kennan

#3. Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.

Frederick W. Smith

#4. Time can be used to convert anything

Sunday Adelaja

#5. I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

Bryan Adams

#6. Through my writing, I have made new friends and continued to learn about this world of ours in all its wonder, with all its challenges.

Sonia Levitin

#7. Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.

Zig Ziglar

#8. If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of the standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half ce

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#9. Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf.

Jan Schakowsky

#10. But your perfectly good bed doesn't come with a blanket of stars.

Tracy March

#11. We were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.

Ida Tarbell

#12. Being able to save, make non-cash payments, send or receive remittances, get credit, or get insurance can be instrumental in raising living standards and helping businesses prosper. It helps people to invest more in education or health care.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#13. We have become stronger economically; we have been successfully resolving the social problems, raising the level of living - the standards of living - of the population.

Sergei Lavrov

#14. One of the biggest ways we lose time is not knowing where we're going next.

Rory Vaden

#15. Like the tide eroding the surface of a rock, the raising of children slowly eats away at all the fanciful ideals and standards that you were so adamant about when your first child was born.

Jon Ziegler

#16. Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.

Denzel Washington

#17. Art means to dare - and to have been right.

Ned Rorem

#18. We created a way of raising standards of living that we can't possibly pass on to our children.

Joseph J. Romm

#19. The rules for raising children had gone out with her parents generation of daughters who had lived as Lucy had, in patient silence, acting by standards which had lasted generations, waiting to grow up to make their decisions, following the patterns of their own lives.

Susan Richards Shreve

#20. I'm a big believer in starting with high standards and raising them. We make progress only when we push ourselves to the highest level. If we don't progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.

Dan Gable

#21. It's about getting a more democratic Wales for the purpose of improving our economic performance, for improving the delivery of health care, for raising educational standards.

Ron Davies

#22. Someone once told me: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation'. And that's what I really feel with my music. I've worked really, really hard on it. It was like, 'this is really what I want to do.. what do I have to do to make it work?'

Erica Packer

#23. I try to use short sentences, short paragraphs and short chapters to keep the reader's interest.

Nelson DeMille

#24. It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

Judith Rossner

#25. The self is made, not given

Barbara Myerhoff

#26. Be certain that you easily clear the minimum standards for service as a missionary and that you are continually raising the bar.

L. Tom Perry

#27. The changing economic situation, the changing global market means it is understandable that employers are constantly raising the bar. It is challenging the education system to come up with ever higher standards to meet the expectation of employers.

Jim Knight

#28. Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.

Li Peng

#29. When feeling is divested of the feeler and the felt, it shines as love; when seeing is divested of the seer and the seen, it shines as beauty.

Rupert Spira

#30. The oil is a gift bestowed by God on the Arab nation, to use after centuries of poverty, backwardness and servitude - in raising its living standards, developing its economic, social and cultural conditions, and building up its own power to meet the challenges and conspiracies besetting it.

Saddam Hussein