I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm…

Don't worry about living up to someone else's standards for you, live up to your own standards. That's all that matters!

— Niick

You may not live up to everyone's standards, but there's someone out there who will love you just the way you are.

— Anonymous

When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to…

— Colin Meloy

Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

— Mignon McLaughlin

It's very impossible to live by yesterday's standards and expect extraordinary results today. Live life with passion!

— Anonymous

Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to…

— Simon Mainwaring

Nature consists of facts and of regularities, and is in itself neither moral nor immoral. It is we who impose our standards upon nature,…

— Anonymous

We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's…

— Jennifer Granholm

Don't be afraid of failure, be afraid of not trying in the first place.

— Marie Forleo

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

— Benjamin Disraeli

A warrior, or any man for that matter, cannot possibly wish he were somewhere else; a warrior because he lives by challenge, an ordinary…

— Carlos Castaneda

Aviators live by hours, not by days.

— T. H. White

He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tell…

— Eric Hobsbawm

One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else.…

— D. Elton Trueblood