278 Quotes About Standards

Integrity - one word that means so much; costs so little yet makes a real difference in this world.

we will never be tempted to live by the standards of other people or to be guided by someone else’s opinions if we know who we are

Human being living at the level of biomass will comply with all standards and patterns that are required by the surroundings and society

You don’t prosper by maintaining standards; you prosper by maintaining habits. You are what you are not because of what you did; but because of what you keep doing.

This is the standard to determine the excellence, not the comparison to existing options. Knowing the standard, imagine two situations. Starting with 123 dishes to pick for dinner. Having no standard will lead you to compare option with option. But if it happens you have the standard, irrelevant alternatives go out of the game almost immediately. Options get compared to the standard, not other options. If options are not good enough to satisfy the standard, they get out.

If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother?

I cannot say enough of appreciation for your determination to live by the standards of the Church, to walk with the strength of virtue, to keep your minds above the slough of filth which seems to be moving like a flood across the world. Thank you for knowing there is a better way. Thank you for the will to say no. Thank you for the strength to deny temptation and look beyond and above to the shining light of your eternal potential.

The world is a palace without bedsheets

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?