Top 1200 High Standards Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Ambition devours gold and drinks blood and climbs so high by other men's heads, that at the length in the fall, it breaks its own neck; therefore, it is better to live in humble content than in high care and trouble.

I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yourself.

We have standards. Anybody with the kind of journalism experience and professionalism that you have displayed over these years can not work for my program.

Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.

You must have high ambitions and high ambitions scare small-minded people.

A definition of faith: everything will be alright by God's standards, maybe not ours, but by His for sure.

I had a great time in high school. I really did. I went to a private Christian high school and I graduated in a class of 67 kids, so it was pretty small, and I knew and loved everybody.

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.

As a matter of fact, I decided in high school that I was going to go to the seminary. And I did study with the Paulist Fathers for two years after high school in full anticipation of becoming a priest.

Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low.

I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.

I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort.

People most strenuously seek to evaluate performance by comparing themselves to others, not by using absolute standards.

High energy does not necessarily mean fast, high energy has to do with heart.

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

When people asked me, "Do you get high to go onstage?" I could never understand the question. I mean, I'd been high since eight that morning. Going onstage had nothing to do with it.

We are United States Marines, and for two and a quarter centuries we have defined the standards of courage, esprit, and military prowess.

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

Very few countries grow at high rate if inflation is high and volatile. I think, in a way, we are doing our bit to support a higher growth rate, but on a durable basis.

I will not calm down! Women are allowed to get angrier than men about double standards.

I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures

It's nice to stand out and not have to conform to all the beauty standards that just don't even make sense anymore.

We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.

I was into sports in high school, but I got kicked out of Richmond High at 17, so I never graduated. However, I still get invites to the class reunions... I don't know that I want to see how everyone looks now.

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

Anyone with an engineering frame of mind will look at [accounting standards] and want to throw up.

We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.

Whoever established the high road, and how high it should be, should be fired.

I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.

We moved from the suburbs to L.A. and I picked up break dancing when I was 10. I joined a dance crew in high school and I was battling. I also took ballet most of my life until high school.

high school guys only appear hot to high school girls. its something to do with the fluorescent lighting in the classrooms, i think. They're actually really skinny and spotty, and they have giant feet

I went to Samuel Ayer High School, which is now Milpitas High School.

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life. What I’ve noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it’s so wonderfully fair.

Jaylen's a high achiever. You can be a high achiever in every which way. He's a guy that - we've talked about several times - is gonna do bigger things off the court than on it, and he's a special player on it.

If people are coming in in dribs and drabs, it doesn't look good. You have to have standards and have rules to adhere to. If you have that then it carries on into the training.

We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.

The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.

I go by my own standards, and I will be the voice of the curves for the women that feel like they can't stand up for themselves.

We must use every tool at our disposal to lift the living standards of low-wage employees.

Our aim is to set some kind of benchmark and standards for transparency and governance in private philanthropy.

Four Seasons' legendary brand epitomizes the highest standards for service in the hospitality industry worldwide.

No matter how talented you are or naturally gifted you are, there's no substitute to hard work if you got to maintain standards.

I wouldn't take it as a compliment if someone looked at one of my shoes and said, 'Oh, that looks like a comfortable shoe.' There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.

I'm like one of the tallest ones on 'Scandal.' If I'm wearing my four-inch Abby Whelan high heels, I hover over everybody. I literally have a lower pair of high heels that I wear when I do one of the scenes with the guys.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand.

IE isn't secure and isn't standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for end users and Web content creators.

I was the best guy, you know, all through Little League and Pop Warner and that kind of stuff. But when I went to high school, I was undersized. I didn't grow. I was behind the whole puberty cycle. I didn't like high school.

In the event of atomic war there is a tremendous biological advantage in the so-called undeveloped areas that have a high birth rate and high death rate because, man, they can plow under those mutations.

The issue, as correctly emphasized by Carl Sagan, is the probability of the evolution of high intelligence and an electronic civilization on an inhabited world. Once we have life (and almost surely it will be very different from life on Earth), what is the probability of its developing a lineage with high intelligence? On Earth, among millions of lineages of organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence; this makes me believe in its utter improbability.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be.

We have been fed such unreal standards of beauty that we have now become victims and part of this process that one cannot break.

There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.

The parts that I get to play are not based around the European beauty standards: They're more about character, and I love that.