278 Quotes About Standards

Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out, while Romantic grows from outside in.

Don't lower your standards for anything or anyone.

It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.

Only in more production and in new production can the American standard of living be increased and the economy be sound.

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?

The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them out we succeed.

Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.

If a leader engages in sinful activity that becomes the standard, if he is strict that becomes the standard.