Higher Standards Quotes

Leaders must live by higher standards than their followers.

Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.'

To return to higher standards of living we must abandon the false prophets and seek new leaders of our own choosing.

There are expectations with sequels, and people want them to be bigger and better than the prequel.

I just think, obviously as players, we're held to a higher standard. I've had to watch myself on that, but I think if we're held to higher standards, the owners should be held to even higher standards.

It does not matter if I have 10, 12 sacks: I want better, and I want more.

Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard.

I will not lower the standard of the Bible to my level of experience.

We want to be better than 7-9. Honestly, 7-9 is not going to cut it.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.

We're the same! Even Sonya says we are. We've always been the same, and we're both acting the same stupid way now! We hold ourselves to higher standards than everyone else.

Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest.

It's always my goal to raise the bar with each record I put out.

There is no question we need higher academic standards and at the local level the rigor of the Common Core state standards must be the new minimum in classrooms.

There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor.

I didn't want to stay in America, because the level in Europe is much higher.

Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.

What we are doing is we are putting in significant training into the people we have currently to upgrade their skill resources, upgrade the presentation resources, and upgrade what we expect from them in terms of not business as usual.

I can say with great confidence that I was much more critical of the people I knew than of the people I didn't. Just because I know what they're capable of, so the bar is set so much higher for them - unfairly, frankly.

We want to show all of our customers that the industry standards that we had been employing before - which are considered great standards - were not good enough.

I'm for higher standards measured in an intellectually honest way, with abundant school choice, ending social promotion. And I know how to do this because as governor of the state of Florida I created the first statewide voucher program in the country, the second statewide voucher program, in the country and the third statewide voucher program in the country.