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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Nba, Competition

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• To gain the acceptance of your peers is an admirable task, but to truly accept yourself requires a much higher standard.

  Wes Fesler

  Acceptance, Tasks, Peers

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• There's too many people that paint with a broad brush that we're all corrupt, we're all amoral. … And having these kinds of things happen, whether it's a Republican or Democratic senator — we certainly have had plenty of Democratic scandals in the past — we need people who are in office who will hold themselves to a little higher standard.

  John Ensign

  Past, Office, People

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• I like cars that are ahead of their times, and that were noble failures because they were built to a higher standard than the consumer needed. Cars like the Wills Sainte Claire or the Duesenberg.

  Jay Leno

  Car, Noble, Claire

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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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• Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Taken, Sunset

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Move your personal investments and retirement funds to socially responsible investment (SRI) funds that support only those corporations that uphold higher standards of behavior. Returns on SRI funds are usually equal to, if not better than, many of the well-known traditional mutual funds.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Retirement, Moving, Support

  "10 Actions Consumers Can Take to Reinvent Capitalism" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2011.

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• 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.

  Richelle Mead

  Stupid, Acting, Way

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1366, Penguin

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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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• Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to reach a higher standard than their constitution will allow, fall victims to neurosis. It would have been better for them if they could have remained less "perfect".

  Sigmund Freud

  Fall, Civilization, People

  Sigmund Freud, Philip Rieff (1997). “Sexuality and The Psychology of Love”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• Making matters worse is people's natural inclination to be easy on themselves, judging themselves according to their good intentions-while holding others to a higher standard and judging them by their worst actions.

  John C. Maxwell

  Judging, People, Matter

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