Top 1200 Raise Your Standards Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

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

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

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

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

It takes a society to raise a generation.

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

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

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

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.

If I can raise attention to a cause, I will.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

It's a dream where you live a life that's powerful, one in which you can get married if you want to, raise kids if you want to, get educated to the limit of your capacity, and do what makes you happy, because we all are looking for the good life. We don't want to go through life with just fighting, fighting, fighting.

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

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

In considering the ledger equal, understand the greatest gift you have given your parents is the opportunity to raise you. The things a child gets from parents can't compare to the things a parent gets from raising a child. Only by experiencing this can you understand the degree to which children give meaning to parents' lives.

You have to raise $100 million, probably, to be serious.

No one chooses to raise children alone.

My mantra is if you raise money, don't waste it.

You raze the old to raise the new.

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.

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

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

Know you that Allah has made Islam the most sublime path for attainment of His supreme pleasure and the highest standards of his worship and obedience. He has favoured it with noble precepts, exalted principles, undoubtable arguments, unchallengeable supremacy and undeniable wisdom. It is up to you to maintain the eminence and dignity granted to it by the Lord, to follow it sincerely, to do justice to its articles of faith and belief, to obey implicitly its tenets and orders and to give it the proper place in your lives.

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

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

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

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

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

Sometimes money isn't the determinant. But it sure as hell makes a huge difference. Nobody is saying "Well, thank God we don't need to raise money any longer." It's a very, very big deal to have money, and it is a very, very big deal to have more than your opponent.

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

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

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.

Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don't need to search any further for security.

I don't know if tennis players feel like that but when you have a great opponent - although I didn't feel like he [ Ben Mendelsohn ] was an opponent - you just know your game is going to jack up and it's just going to raise the bar. I couldn't wait for that elevation.

What's wrong with trying hard and showing up and being good at your job? We really need to look at ourselves and say we need to reevaluate this. We need to reevaluate that women who ask for a pay raise or ask for a promotion - it's actually an okay thing. It's okay to be ambitious; it's okay to be over-prepared.

You don't raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

My sun sets to raise again.

It takes a village to raise a child.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.

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

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

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