I've been inconsistent by my standards, but I always set…

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

— John Paul Stevens

Set goals - high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working…

— Bear Bryant

“While you're alive it's shameful to worm your way into the Calendar of Saints. Disbelief in yourself is more saintly. It takes real talent…

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such longing…

— Allan Bloom

I don't think it makes sense to set high goals about how my ideal woman should be. It is like calling for trouble. That…

— Siddharth Shukla

“To set high goals, to have almost unattainable aspirations, to imbue people with the belief that they can be achieved—these are as important as…

— John Brooks

In the West, the art of rock climbing is growing because it has to do with less risk, good muscles. But the people seeking…

— Reinhold Messner

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to…

— Arne Jacobsen

As I said this year, I didn't try to put any pressure on me by setting high goals or anything, I just want to…

— Daniela Hantuchova

The most effective CEOs have a primary source for tracking their markets. They meet with their teams frequently enough to keep innovation flowing, to…

— Michael J. Silverstein

That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.

— Nina Simone

Given six months to live and being the fighter that I am, I set high goals for myself.

— Ryan White

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that…

— Rosalynn Carter

A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the "plus" characteristics…

— Napoleon Hill

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take…

— Rosalynn Carter