Top 62 Set Standards For Yourself Quotes
#1. Understand you are neither inferior nor superior; you are just the best of who you are supposed to be. You have set standards for yourself and are ready to meet them.
Archibald Marwizi
#2. The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.
Lou Holtz
#3. A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.
Irving Babbitt
#4. One exemplary act may affect one life, or even millions of lives. All those who set standards for themselves, who strengthen the bonds of community, who do their work creditably and accept individual responsibility, are building the common future.
John W. Gardner
#5. It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.
Theodore Roosevelt
#6. People have set moral standards for me my entire life, yet they have always left off the ones that they couldn't keep.
Shannon L. Alder
#7. It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.
Orison Swett Marden
#8. 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
#9. A little of this caviar finds its way to the fish restaurants around Istanbul's Taksim Square, but the bulk is sent on to the United Arab Emirates to be enjoyed by wealthy Westerners and Arabs in the preposterous hotels that have set new standards in unnecessary opulence.
Misha Glenny
#10. Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally.
Winston Churchill
#11. Enjoy life, study hard, play hard, be kind to other people, set high standards, and don't be afraid to say "No."
Nia Long
#12. To set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world.
Marie-Antoine Careme
#13. It's a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please ... be selective.
Mandy Hale
#14. Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization - Hey, let's elect officers, establish hierarchy, set standards of professionalism - Jesus quietly picked up a towel and basin of water and began to wash their feet.
Philip Yancey
#15. Underlying all your choices, particularly subject matter and the way you represent it, should be your own personal scruples, the standards and rules that you voluntarily set for yourself, and which you may change or abandon whenever you choose - without explanation to anyone.
Richard Schmid
#16. [It] would allow citizens to set their own standards for the permissible use of force.
Sol Wachtler
#17. What's crucial is whether your writing attains the standards you've set for yourself. ( ... ) Basically a writer has a quiet, inner motivation, and doesn't seek validation in the outwardly visible.
Haruki Murakami
#18. 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
#20. A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.
Andrew Vachss
#21. You set the standard for how people will treat and regard you, by how you treat and regard yourself.
Bryant McGill
#22. I set my standards so high, no one could be harsher on me than I was.
Jim Brown
#23. You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.
Michael Jordan
#24. Don't settle for anybody just to have someone. Set your standards. What kind of love do you want to attract? List the qualities you really want in the relationship. Develop those qualities in yourself and you will attract a person who has them.
Louise Hay
#25. We can not improve humanity if everyone is conforming to society's standards. Set your own standard, and find out for yourself.
Mary Sage Nguyen
#26. If you set a clear standard for yourself; for how you wish to be treated - people take note.
Bryant McGill
#27. Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself
Rick Pitino
#28. You have set standards for how you want to be treated and what you expect from yourself and for yourself.
Iyanla Vanzant
#30. You've got to set high standards for yourself.
Marcus Giles
#31. Set high standards for yourself and don't settle for anything less. You are the best judge of yourself and your capabilities.
Tony Robbins
#32. 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
#33. Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
Alan King
#34. Unfortunately there is a standard set for it that precedes hip-hop. It would be great if corporate America didn't do this, but there is a huge market for sex and violence and anti-Black representations in America and the world that doesn't begin or end with hip-hop.
Bakari Kitwana
#35. Don't let anyone set restrictions on your life ... You chart the course of your own future, not anyone else. Don't let people have such a power over you. Because if you're always racing against their standards, then what's the point of reaching a useless finish line?
Kale Lawrence
#36. Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.
Mitt Romney
#37. It's amazing how life will organize around the standards you set for yourself.
Darren Hardy
#38. We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally - and certainly not in reinsurance - as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are ignored.
Warren Buffett
#39. How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ?
Anatoli Boukreev
#40. Do not do what you cannot continue to deliver.
For, remember, the world wants to see a continuity of delivery of
set standards ... !
Sujit Lalwani
#41. 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
#42. Crafty politician that he is, Obama was smart enough to set low enough standards for his administration to claim 'victory' by the summer of 2011 or so.
Thomas P.M. Barnett
#43. The first thing I crave when I'm dieting is the worst thing for me. I have come to realize that the same is true when I set new relationship standards.
Steve Maraboli
#44. By going on the defensive ... libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should be policed for propriety, and that those who violate standards set by the PC set are somehow defective on those grounds alone and deserve to be purged from "polite" company.
Ilana Mercer
#45. One has to set high standards ... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.
Patrice Motsepe
#46. 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
#47. Berners-Lee started the World Wide Web as a set of protocols for transferring, linking and addressing documents to send over the Net. Without the global reach and open technical standards of the Internet, the Web could never have proliferated as it did.
Katie Hafner
#48. God set His standards this high so that we won't make the mistake of aiming low. He made them unreachable so that we would never have the excuse to stop growing.
Alex Harris
#49. Having the experience of senior guys around you just makes things easier as they all contribute ideas and set the standards for the group.
George Bailey
#50. Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.
Taiichi Ohno
#51. Set higher standards for you own performance than anyone around you, and it won't matter whether you have a tough boss or an easy one. It won't matter whether the competition is pushing you hard, because you'll be competing with yourself.
Rick Pitino
#52. Do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is ... only you are qualified to set your standards. Only you can determine how you should live and what you will finally expect from yourself.
Steve Goodier
#53. 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.
Alex Ferguson
#54. Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best.
Henry Mintzberg
#55. 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
#56. As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.
George W. Bush
#57. Because there are no local or State boundaries to the problems of our environment, the Federal Government must play an active, positive role. We can and will set standards. We can and will exercise leadership.
Richard M. Nixon
#58. The rich world of his ancestors set the standards for Dietrich Bonhoeffer's own life. It gave him a certainty of judgment and manner that cannot be acquired in a single generation.
Eric Metaxas
#59. If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our own standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.
Donald Davidson
#60. One of the greatest challenges for all of us is to learn how to live in the world without participating in all that it offers. Worldly standards will always be in a state of flux. The only true and unchanging standards are those set by the Savior and His teachings of the restored gospel.
Donald L. Staheli
#61. God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has to punish those guilty of sin. Maybe that's not an appealing standard. But to put it bluntly, when you get your own universe, you can make your own standards.
Francis Chan
#62. I distrust the slightest hint of a standard for political rectitude, knowing that it will open the way for persons in authority to set arbitrary standards of human behavior.
E.B. White
