Higher Standards Quotes

• The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Personality, Future Leaders

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.371, Routledge

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• In God's eyes all children are beautiful but here on earth we have higher standards.

  Stephen Colbert

  Beautiful, Children, Eye

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• Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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• Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Life Changing, Helping Others

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• I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.

  Phil McGraw

  Children, Thinking, Parent

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. December 26, 2004.

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• The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Country, Marijuana, Generations

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• You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.

  Bernie Sanders

  Education, Jobs, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Excellence, Improvement

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Apr 11, 2014

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• People mistake their limitations for high standards.

  Jean Toomer

  Life, Mistake, People

  Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

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• The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard.

  Florence Kelley

  Two, Fields, Wages

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

  Gary Ackerman

  Pride, People, Sometimes

  "WABC Special - Interview With Congressman Gary Ackerman". "The John Batchelor and Paul Alexander Show", www.jonathanpollard.org. July 29, 2001.

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• The first step towards attaining a higher standard of holiness is to realize more fully the amazing sinfulness of sin.

  J. C. Ryle

  Holiness, Firsts, Steps

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.36, Letcetera Publishing

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• A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Civilization, Culture, Standards

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.90, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• It's the old story. You might be able to fool your coaches, or your teammates, or your opponents. But, you can never fool yourself in anything. I believe that the more critical you are of your own performance- the higher standards you have-the better you become at what you do.

  Don Maynard

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• Whether happiness or unhappiness, freedom or slavery, in short whether good or evil results from an improved environment depends largely upon how the change has been brought about, upon the methods by which the physical results have been reached, and in what spirit and for what purpose the fruits of that change are used. Because a higher standard of living, a greater productiveness and a command over nature are not good in and of themselves does not mean that we cannot make good of them, that they cannot be a source of inner strength.

  David Lilienthal

  Mean, Evil, Inner Strength

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• I think that different leaders, whether it`s Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, or Paul Ryan, saying that we`re not going to turn on each other, which is exactly what ISIS wants. I think that`s what this moment calls for and I think, right now, you see who are the pandering demagogues, and who are the people who really have a higher standard and the best public interest at heart.

  Steve King

  Heart, Thinking, Isis

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living so that no child will cry for food in the midst of plenty.

  Sidney Hillman

  Children, Struggle, Economic Inequality

  The New Republic, Volume 115, p. 379, 1946.

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• What I do believe happens in a lot of these cases is that we somehow want to place blame on the victim for their behavior or that they brought it upon themself. As law enforcement official, you are held to a higher standard. You are expected to execute your job in that regard.

  Sharon Cooper

  Jobs, Believe, Law

  "Sandra Bland's Family Reacts To Grand Jury's Decision". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 23, 2015.

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• In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, Illustration, Justice

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• As a leader, parent, or friend - don't let someone's poor attitude and poor performance hinder your commitment to holding them to higher standards. You don't need to make the person 'wrong' for the way they're behaving, simply point out that the behavior is ineffective.

  Hal Elrod

  Gratitude, Attitude, Commitment

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• People whose terms go for five years or longer, like FCC commissioners. That's a higher standard. Then district judges, who are appointed for a lifetime but can be overruled. Then Court of Appeals judges. They're not the highest level, but they're almost the final word. And then, of course, the Supreme Court.

  Russ Feingold

  Years, Fcc, People

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild for The Progressive Magazine, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. May 2002.

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• Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks.

  Lucy Powell

  Quality, Prevention, Demand

  "Labour created the NHS and has safeguarded its future" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• If greed were not the master of modern man, how could it be that the frenzy of economic activity does not abate as higher standards of living are attained, and that it is precisely the richest societies which pursue their economic advantage with the greatest ruthlessness?

  E. F. Schumacher

  Men, Greed, Doe

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• I have certain objectives. They're the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of poverty, to eliminate the consequences of economic backwardness.

  Indira Gandhi

  Father, Cancer, People

  Source: sangam.org

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• If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.

  Nancy Hale

  Civilization, Way, Achieve

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