Top 1200 Standards And Values Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a system of defense, where distance and possession are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage to judge certain values as of ultimate concern – and to take the jump and to stake everything on these values.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

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

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

I'm privileged to have followed Sir Matt because all you have to do is to try and maintain the standards that he set so many years ago.

I'd like to shut off all the noise and allow people to be creative without all the judgments and standards that we think we have to follow.

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 nice thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from. Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.

The problem of values arises only when men try to fit together their need to be social animals with their need to be free men. There is no problem, and there are no values, until men want to do both. If an anarchist wants only freedom, whatever the cost, he will prefer the jungle of man at war with man. And if a tyrant wants only social order, he will create the totalitarian state.

A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept the moral standards of this world.

If I do something I think is new, it will be misunderstood, but if people like it, I will be disappointed because I haven't pushed them enough. The more people hate it, maybe the newer it is. Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change. The place I am always looking for-because in order to keep the business I need to make a little compromise between my values and customers' values-is the place where I make something that could almost-but not quite-be understood by everyone.

Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.

When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.

We are Bayern. We have the highest standards, and always want to win everything, so the Champions League is a very big target.

In his scientific genius, man has wrought material miracles and has transformed his world. He has harnassed nature and has developed great civilizations. But he has never learned very well how to live with himself. The values he has created have been predominantly materialistic; his spiritual values have lagged far behind. He has demonstrated little spiritual genius and has made little progress toward the realization of human brotherhood. In the contemporary atomic age, this could prove man's fatal weakness.

You need to have a culture where people have very high quality standards in everything the company does, but still move quickly.

You have to empower your sales staff to use their judgment and go beyond the standards set down on paper and by the computer.

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

Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards.

A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.

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

You had journalist saying during the campaign that Donald Trump compels them to suspend all objective standards of journalism.

I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.

One of the biggest challenges facing the globe is the gap that exists in the wealth and standards of living enjoyed by the world's nations.

Conservatives believe in traditional values. Not because we want to impose our views on anyone, but because to abandon those values would be to ignore our history. Americans are not the most generous people on earth because our laws make us generous. People do not contribute to charity in this country in record amounts because we have a tax break from it. We do so because this nation has been shaped by Judeo-Christian principles that teach us that we have an obligation to care for one another.

There was a period in my life when I was trying to write standards: songs that everybody recorded. I did a pretty good run of it.

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

Union Budget 2012 has supported industry's long time demand to improve the provision and standards of education in the country.

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

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.

Preserve the core, and let the rest flux. In their wonderful bestseller Built to Last, authors James Collins and Jerry Porras make a convincing argument that long-lived companies are able to thrive 50 years or more by retaining a very small heart of unchanging values, and then stimulating progress in everything else. At times "everything" includes changing the business the company operates in, migrating, say, from mining to insurance. Outside the core of values, nothing should be exempt from flux. Nothing.

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

Everyone would have bigger and safer cars if they didn't have those CAFE standards: corporate average fuel economy.

There's absolutely no doubt consumers have more choice than ever, and the standards of all that provide food have improved over time.

Libertarianism is what you probably already believe: Libertarian values are American values. Libertarianism is America's heritage of liberty, patriotism and honest work to build a future for your family. It's the idea that being free and independent is a great way to live. That each of us is a unique individual, with great potential. That you own yourself, and that you have the right to decide what's best for you. Americans of all races and creeds built a great and prosperous country with these libertarian ideals. Let's use them to build America's future.

The truth is that family values, as used by the American Family Association, Dan Quayle, and the southern Baptists, has nothing to do with either family or values, nor does it really have anything to do with homosexuals, abortionists, or pornographers. Those groups actually only serve as windmills to tilt at. The true agenda is power - power over the intellectually weak, emotionally immature, and ethically deficient Americans who are incapable of critical thinking and independent decision-making, and who are easily manipulated by the basest of human emotions - fear and the desire for revenge.

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States - and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!

We Don't always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world's standards, but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most.

Don't focus on your body. Love it, but know it'll never be up to society's standards because it's all Photoshop and exclusivity. And that's okay!

I want young girls and women to feel like they connect with me and that they don't have to aspire for unreal beauty or fashion standards.

Young girls are obsessed with having a thigh gap. I blame the impossible body standards set by Spongebob.

I voted against H.R. 1119, which would weaken emissions standards for coal refuse power plants.

Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.

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

I don't think that Donald Trump represents the traditional Republican values and heritage of my party. That's one reason that I don't support him. The Republican Party has always revered the individual. We led the way in abolishing slavery, for example, and we recognize the dignity and worth of every human being. it is clear that Donald Trump, by his derogatory comments, by his mocking of the most vulnerable people in our society, by his marginalization of ethnic and religious minorities, doesn't reflect the traditional Republican values.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community

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

It's good to have a reminder that we can love ourselves and be beautiful even though we don't really fit into certain standards of what beauty may be.

Our beliefs about ourselves in relation to the world around us are the roots of our values, and our values determine not only our immediate actions, but also, over the course of time, the form of our society. Our beliefs are increasingly determined by science. Hence it is at least conceivable that what science has been telling us for three hundred years about man and his place in nature could be playing by now an important role in our lives.

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

Results are a consequence of doing things well and having high standards, improving the detail of how we play.

Miss Marple believes in justice and has very high standards. There is nothing you could say or do that would shock her.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

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.

Whole Foods has been brilliant at changing the way food is produced because they just won't buy it if it doesn't meet their standards.

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.

Who you spend time with is who you become! Change your life by consciously choosing to surround yourself with people with higher standards!