Standards Quotes

Without standards, there can be no improvement.

Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen

Don't lower your standards for anything or anyone.

we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.

To create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it.

The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.

You don't have the right to hold somebody accountable for standards you refuse to apply to yourself.

I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.

The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.

Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.

The Standard ... is the standard.

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.

If you want to change your life you have to raise your standards.

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

When God blesses you financially, don't raise your STANDARD OF LIVING. raise your STANDARD OF GIVING.

Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.

People most strenuously seek to evaluate performance by comparing themselves to others, not by using absolute standards.

Keep your heel, head and standards high.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.

Ideology is a certain unique experience of the universe and your place in it, to put it in standard terms, which serves the production of the existing power relations and blah blah blah.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

I believe in the gold standard. I like solid lumps of things. You can always melt them down.

The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.

Welbeck is not the standard required at Manchester United.

If you like me, raise your hand. If you don't, raise your standards

I set my standards so high, no one could be harsher on me than I was.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

The rotten apple spoils his companion.

When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.

Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.

There is only one standard - a global standard. Be consistent, operate at 100% every single time you're given an opportunity.

Don't let the best you have done so far be the standard for the rest of your life.

When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.

A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard

When one 'we' gets to determine standards for all 'we's' then some 'we's' are in trouble.

I feel like I've helped create a new standard of hustle for defensive linemen.

The standard of living of the average American has to decline.

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

The standard God has for you has nothing to do with approval, and everything to do with purpose.

I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

Women who are beautiful or who achieve beauty according to the imposed standards are rewarded; those who cannot or choose not to be beautiful are punished, economically and socially.

Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?