Top 1200 Standards And Values Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The way woman is defined by marketable modeling and commercial standards... It makes me feel alien to myself.

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

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

If you look at the India-US relationship for example, the role that the Indian diaspora has played in the relationship is extremely crucial. Yes, we share democratic values but there is also the great role that the Indian diaspora has played in strengthening the bond of friendship between India and the US, and of course in underscoring the democratic values between the two countries.

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

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.

When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.

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

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

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

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

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

Together, let us make this a new beginning. Let us make a commitment to care for the needy, to teach our children the values and the virtues handed down to us by our families, to have the courage to defend those values and the willingess to sacrifice for them. Let us pledge to restore, in our time, the American spirit of voluntary service, of cooperation, of private and community initiative, a spirit that flows like a deep and mighty river through the history of our nation.

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

... with every Asiatic country where we operate in cooperation with the existing culture, the need for intelligent understanding of that country and its ways of life will be crucial. These nations will very likely not respond to appeals with which we are familiar, and not value rewards which seem to us irresistible. The danger--and it would be fatal to world peace--is that in our ignorance of their cultural values we shall meet in head-on collision and incontinently fall back on the old pattern of imposing our own values by force.

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.

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

When a new manager comes in, you have to prove yourself all over again. That's what you have to do every day and keep your standards high.

Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man-by choice; he has to hold his life as a value-by choice; he has to learn to sustain it-by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues-by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

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

Training a reliable military force that adheres to Western norms and standards is the work of a generation, not a few months.

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

Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even the greatest religion becomes no more than a broad sect or branch of the one universal religion, by which we shall understand in the future man's seeking for the eternal, the divine, the greater self, the source of unity and his attempt to arrive at some equation, some increasing approximation of the values of human life with the eternal and the divine values.