Top 100 Standards High Quotes
#1. Keep your heel, head and standards high.
Coco Chanel
#2. Alignment = Magic & Miracles ... Keep your standards high. YOU are worth it!
Sheri Fink
#3. I don't give up, and I make sure to keep my standards high.
Lukasz Gottwald
#4. A little saying I liked to live by: Keep your head, heels and standards high.
Ilsa Madden-Mills
#6. Keep your standards high, and any guy who is worth it will rise to meet them.
Ed Westwick
#7. Keep your heels, head & standards high!
Coco Chanel
#8. The growth of a nation's productive potential is the central factor in determining its growth in real wages and living standards ... high rates of investment and saving usually have a big payoff in promoting economic growth.
Paul Samuelson
#9. I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards for the world, and it is for us, women in Canada, to set the standards high.
Nellie L. McClung
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. The kind of young woman who can be a terrific torchbearer has high standards all the time, not just in her prom dress, but every, ordinary day.
Margaret D. Nadauld
#13. People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.
Temple Grandin
#14. Excellence calls for character ... integrity ... fairness ... honesty ... a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.
Price Pritchett
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#20. One has to set high standards ... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.
Patrice Motsepe
#21. 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
#22. 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
#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. 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
#25. You have people with high standards and values as well as people with low ones no matter where you are
Amanda Lee
#26. 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
#28. I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself.
Olivia Newton-John
#29. With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted.
Ralph Raico
#30. Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?
Rush Limbaugh
#31. It's better to be single with high standards than in a relationship settling for less.
Patrick Stevens
#32. I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.
Brett Dennen
#33. 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
#34. As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.
George W. Bush
#35. You need to have a culture where people have very high quality standards in everything the company does, but still move quickly.
Sam Altman
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. Mediocrity is already a high standard.
Marty Rubin
#39. Aspire to high standards, expect strong results, offer self praise, and stack your confidence.
Lorii Myers
#40. 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
#41. I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.
Haruki Murakami
#42. A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
Marya Mannes
#43. I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I'm not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person - love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.
Jennifer Lopez
#44. She has impossibly high standards.'
'So do you.'
'Yeah, well, not impossibly high. Someone did come along who meets them.'
'Your problem is thinking no one else ever will.
Eric Lindstrom
#45. How dare you make such suggestions when you have no idea what it is you're talking about. Of course you've always been this way; conceited, arrogant, rude to others around you when they don't match up to your ridiculously.." high standards...
Madeline Courtney
#46. In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.
Miroslav Volf
#47. The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.
Michael Burgess
#48. While it's good that we maintain high standards for companies seeking to claim environmental leadership, I can't help but ponder the hypocrisy of it all: how much more we expect of companies than of ourselves.
Joel Makower
#49. There was no time for scholarly details, and, besides, I have always believed that a man can fairly be judged by the standards and taste of his choices in matters of high-level plagiarism.
Hunter S. Thompson
#50. In 30 years of public service, I have had no scandals. I have high ethical standards. I am most proud of my judgement, that kind of judgement is what we want in a president going forward. I want to be a peacemaker.
Bernie Sanders
#51. We are reaching levels of high experiential comfort
and our standards will keep rising.
We want to feel, we want to experience,
we want to connect, we want intelligence,
and we want to play;
Ladies and Gentlemen:
A new theatre is on its way.
Natasha Tsakos
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. I can't help it! I'm just a woman with high standards!
Josie Maran
#55. Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.
Thomas Sowell
#56. Mindfulness requires being a beginner. Setting absurdly high-standards, and being unwilling to be a novice, are the joint enemies of personal progress and change. Nobody benchpresses 100 kilos the first time they enter a gym.
Paul Gibbons
#57. We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short.
Moby
#58. You cannot apply your high standards to a country [Egypt] burdened with decades of autocratic rule. Our democracy is still in its infancy.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#59. Maybe your standards are too high" Riley said.
"Just because they have abs and a penis doesn't mean I want to sleep with them.
Priscilla West
#60. I would be the first to admit that I have incredibly high, ambitious standards for my life and my career, and I've had those my entire life. It's something that was just instilled in me by my parents.
Mindy Kaling
#61. 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
#62. You want to know why I don't have many friends here? At least not ones that count, according to your fucking standards handed down from on high, princess? Because I figured it out. What the difference is between friends and casual acquaintances. Between lovers and fuck buddies.
Amy Jo Cousins
#63. Luke's like no other guy that I know. I mean, I respect him. I have really high standards and I only respect two other guys," she said, casually.
"I know." I said dryly, "Jesus and Martin Luther King Jr.
Tijan
#64. When one gets reports from scientists, engineers and technicians whose credibility by all common standards is high and whose moral caliber seems to preclude a hoax, one can do no less than hear them out, in all seriousness.
J. Allen Hynek
#65. That's the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.
John Dos Passos
#66. 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
#67. Enjoy life, study hard, play hard, be kind to other people, set high standards, and don't be afraid to say "No."
Nia Long
#68. We can't win the struggle for high standards if we just talk a good game ... we've got to play a good game.
Price Pritchett
#69. These are people who consciously choose failure in order to preserve their own sense of integrity. They are more elitist than mere snobs, because of their high standards.
Azar Nafisi
#70. High standards generally
about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and much else
far from being snobbish, are required to maintain decency in life.
Joseph Epstein
#71. I have very high standards for myself and my career.
Ryan Kwanten
#72. I set my standards so high, no one could be harsher on me than I was.
Jim Brown
#73. 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
#74. Love is the invention of a few high cultures ... it is cultural artifact. To make love the requirement of a lifelong marriage is exceedingly difficult, and only a few people can achieve it. I don't believe in setting universal standards that a large proportion of people can't reach.
Margaret Mead
#75. Serena and I, we don't have anything to prove ... we still set a very high standard.
Venus Williams
#76. Don't open the door to strangers," said her dad. "Unless they're selling something. Then open the door and see if I'd like it. If I'd like it, buy it for me. But nothing cheap. I have standards. Nothing too expensive, either. My standards aren't that high.
Derek Landy
#77. It is a fact that under equal conditions, large-scale battles and whole wars are won by troops which have a strong will for victory, clear goals before them, high moral standards, and devotion to the banner under which they go into battle.
Georgy Zhukov
#78. If you had a national grid with one operator, you had twenty or even a hundred operators, if you don't have the ability to compel people to observe high standards of conduct, then you run a greater risk.
Spencer Abraham
#79. Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
#80. My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.
Hugh Hefner
#81. 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
#82. People mistake their limitations for high standards.
Jean Toomer
#83. Cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards.
Alain De Botton
#84. And he never quit in the middle of something. If he started a job, he'd finish it. It was almost like a moral thing for him. He was what you'd call extremely ethical. He set pretty high standards for himself.
Jon Krakauer
#85. I do have very high customer service standards - I'd send back sushi because it's too fishy.
Greg McHugh
#86. Nobody owes anybody anything; it's up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.
Katharine Hepburn
#87. When the Christian brings the standards of Jesus Christ to bear upon life in a material and secular world, it is often resented. Because the moral and spiritual demands of Jesus Christ are so high, they often set the Christian apart.
Billy Graham
#88. I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.
Olivia Wilde
#89. The SAT plays an important role in helping admissions officers around the country sort out students, well-deserving students from 20,000 high schools that have different curriculums, different grading standards, and different ability to help students get ready for college.
Jonathan Grayer
#90. Good enough never is. Set your standards so high that even the flaws are considered excellent.
Debbi Fields
#91. We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards
the ethics of excellence.
Price Pritchett
#92. Parents have a right to expect that their efforts at home won't be undone each day in the school cafeteria or in the vending machine in the hallway ... Parents have a right to expect that their kids will be served fresh, healthy food that meets high nutritional standards.
Michelle Obama
#93. I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It's too bad they don't apply the same standards to presidential candidates as they do to high school students.
Mark Hamill
#94. Luxury brands are about elite access. In consumer goods, that's elite cost. In education, it's elite criteria for admission. Minerva is maintaining those high standards, but not artificially limiting the number of people who can meet it ... This really may be redefining education.
Kevin Harvey
#95. As I sat on the midnight PVTA bus to Amherst, I scanned the male faces, looking for a potential boyfriend. My standards were high: anyone who looked back at me.
Augusten Burroughs
#96. The show became its own little world, with its own internal rhythm and high standards.
Dick Van Dyke
#97. My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was rather minimal from the standards of today's college graduates and Ph.D.'s, but he had a deep interest in questions of science and questions of the universe.
Brian Greene
#98. I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives ... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation.
William J. Clinton
#99. Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
Greg Anderson
#100. The market made up new standards as it went along, by accepting the current price - however high - as the sole measure of value. Any idea of safety based on this uncritical approach was clearly illusory and replete with danger.
Benjamin Graham
