Standard Quotes

1108 Standard quotes by 880 unique authors

If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviours and attitudes or a… — Tony Robbins
Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard… — Randy Alcorn
How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps. — Andrew Murray
People spend thousands of dollars on stereos. Sometimes tens of thousands. There is a specialist industry right here in the States which builds stereo gear… — Lee Child
Its was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one's… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Over the course of many encounters and many years, I have successfully developed a standard operating procedure for dealing with big, nasty monsters. Run away. — Jim Butcher
Lukewarm people give money to charity and to the church....as long as it doesn't impinge on their standard of living. If they have a little… — Francis Chan
I don't like your tone," was Violet's standard answer when one of her children was winning an argument. — Julia Quinn
The sense that in his mother’s view, he had let down his family just by being who he was… was a failure of acceptance that… — J R Ward
I’m talking to you more than I speak with my mahmen.” “I thought your mother was dead.” “She is.” “You have a very low standard… — J R Ward
Holiness is the habit of being of one mind with God, according as we find His mind described in Scripture. It is the habit of… — J C Ryle
Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure… — Adrienne Rich
As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to… — Indra Nooyi
What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives. — Susan Glaspell
Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. — Zig Ziglar
Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against… — Nathaniel Branden
Your parents ask you to follow the standard path: School, job, security. Is this really the best way? I don't think so - be your… — Kim Dotcom
You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you. But you can plant a standard where a standard never flew. — Nathalia Crane
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond… — Peter Drucker
The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them out we succeed. — George Santayana
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same… — H. L. Mencken
So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then stretching it on… — Herman Melville
The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole… — Peter Drucker
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success… — Zig Ziglar
Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living. — Deepak Chopra

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