Standards Quotes

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I'm proud of my body. My body weight will always be something I'll struggle with for the rest of my life, but I'm finally in… — Khloe Kardashian
You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you. But you can plant a standard where a standard never flew. — Nathalia Crane
There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind -- you have to adhere to the highest standards. — Marvin Bower
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
America's highest economic need is higher ethical standards -- enforced by strict laws and upheld by responsible business leaders. — George W. Bush
We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of… — Erwin Griswold
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
Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow the ground of… — Wendell Berry
Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others… — Andrea Dworkin
There is a restless kind of consumer shopping for partners, as if the "right one" can be found by totting up a potential mate's pluses… — Deepak Chopra
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
Some individuals have developed such strong internal standards that they no longer need the opinion of others to judge whether they have performed a task… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living. — Deepak Chopra
A revolution in humanity's use of fossil fuel-based energy would be necessary sooner or later to sustain and to extend modern standards of living. It… — Ross Garnaut
Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what… — Tony Robbins
We imagine a school in which students and teachers excitedly and joyfully stretch themselves to their limits in pursuit of projects built on their vision...not… — Seymour Papert
Local brands evoke national pride, are seen as less profit-oriented, and are often formed on deep local insights. But quality worries persist, innovation is questioned,… — Miles Young

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