Top 1200 National Standards Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

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

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

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

We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.

Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.

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

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

Good enough never is. Set your standards so high that even the flaws are considered excellent.

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

Every school, including voucher and charter schools, must be held to strict accountability standards.

The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste.

The greatest advancements in living standards over the past century have been coincident with affordable energy.

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

Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards.

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

I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards.

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

One of the things that we have to change in this country is the idea that people can't disagree without challenging each other's character and patriotism. I have never suggested that Sen. McCain picks his positions on national security based on politics or personal ambition. I have not suggested it because I believe that he genuinely wants to serve America's national interest. Now, it's time for him to acknowledge that I want to do the same. Let me be clear: I will let no one question my love of this country.

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

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?

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.

The British are coming, the British are coming! Mr. President! We need the National Guard! We need as many men as you can spare because we are killing the Patriots! So call the dogs off! Send the National Guard, please! They need emergency help! Please! Help!

There are other concerns in this state [of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania], which is one of the prettiest. It's also one of the poorest, where people here are making less than the national average. Unemployment is higher than the national average, and a lot of the young people, especially, have left because there just aren't jobs and that sort of thing. So you have that going on, the feeling that that hasn't really changed in years or at least with their help - with the last state government.

The burden is on Saddam Hussein. And our policy, our national policy - not the UN policy but our national policy - is that the regime should be changed until such time as he demonstrates that it is not necessary to change the regime because the regime has changed itself.

Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama.

We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.

Every relationship I was in, I loved the girl. It's just the moral values and standards was off. I was loving and lying.

The whole purpose of CAFE standards is to make cars more efficient that people are actually buying.

Critics have stepped up their attacks on the President for authorizing the National Security Agency to listen to international communications of known al Qaeda members or affiliated terrorists during a time of war. The American people expect their leaders to stay a step ahead of the enemy, and the National Security Agency authorization is a critical tool in the War on Terror that saves lives and protects civil liberties at the same time.

My great hero is Billie Holiday, and I've always wanted to do an album of standards with a piano-led quartet.

The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.

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

I set myself high standards on the pitch and I know I have not always lived up to them this season.

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

The one eternal religion is applied to the opinions of various minds and various races. There never was my religion or yours, my national religion or your national religion; there never existed many religions, there is only the one. One infinite religion existed all through eternity and will ever exist, and this religion is expressing itself in various countries in various ways.

We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns.

The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.

When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience; I have a set of standards.

The music industry is an unforgiving place, and it shall unceremoniously show you the door if you can't perform to high standards.

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

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

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

Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.

By patience and determination, rather than by a harsh upsetting of tradition, we move toward our national aspirations.... This is the way we get things done in America. One man tells another, does what he can, till the sum of these efforts grows into a national aspiration-a precious goal. Then occurs our miracle of democracy: because the groundwork has been surely laid, the goal is already within our grasp.

In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic military power. In the new model, already emerging under our noses, economic decisions don't pay much attention to national sovereignty in a world where more than half of the one hundred or two hundred largest economic entities are not countries but companies.

I, personally, have standards that I have set for myself. I'd like to achieve those and look back without regret.

We tried our damnedest to make it a special entertainment, but I'll admit I'm a contributor to the decline in TV standards.

Keep your standards high, and any guy who is worth it will rise to meet them.

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

I do have very high customer service standards - I'd send back sushi because it's too fishy.

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.

Do not do what you cannot continue to deliver. For, remember, the world wants to see a continuity of delivery of set standards...!

My heart is with the standards. That's what I was raised on. I'm perfectly comfortable with pop. I feel lucky because I'm pretty versatile.

I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season.

When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

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

Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.

I think it's good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.

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.