Quotes about Standards
The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
What the new morality resolves itself into is this: You are wrong if you do a thing you do not feel like doing; and you are right if you do a thing you feel like doing. Such a morality is based not only on "fastidiousness," but on "facetiousness." The standard of morality then becomes the individual feeling of what is beautiful, instead of the rational estimate of what is right.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
- Billy Sunday
Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
- Walt Disney
We are deeply conditioned against unconditionality because we've been told in a thousand different ways that accomplishment always precedes acceptance, that achievement always precedes approval.
- Tullian Tchividjian
And he cares nothing for their praise—men who can't even meet their own standards.
- Marcus Aurelius
Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it. -
- Seth Godin
Sometimes, we're so focused on being consistent that we also lower the bar on amazing.
- Seth Godin
We hire for perfect, we manage for perfect, we measure for perfect, and we reward for perfect. So why are we surprised that people spend their precious minutes of self-directed, focused work time trying to achieve perfect? The problem is simple: Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about. Rough
- Seth Godin
We tend to get in life what we are willing to tolerate.
- John Maxwell
When we hold our thoughts up against God's standards of what is true and what is real, we can recognize and, with His help, learn to release many of our negative emotions, damaging thoughts, and destructive attitudes.
- Elizabeth George
There need to be some absolutes in life.
- James Faust