Standards Quotes - Page 17

• The Constitution of our country [was] formed by the Fathers of liberty... Exalt the standard of Democracy! Down with that of priestcraft, and let all the people say Amen! that the blood of our fathers may not cry from the ground against us. Sacred is the memory of that blood which bought for us our liberty.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Country, Freedom, Memories

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• For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Truth, Greatness, Simplicity

  Leo Tolstoy “War and Peace: Designed to be Read as a Modern Novel”

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• Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

  Richelle Mead

  Past, Judging, Don't Judge Me

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus On Top”, p.176, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Are we going to continue to yield personal liberties and community autonomy to the steady inexplicable centralization all political power or restore the Republic to Constitutional direction, regain our personal liberties and reassume the individual state's primary responsibility and authority in the conduct of local affairs? Are we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity of our public and private institutions?

  Douglas MacArthur

  Integrity, Mean, Responsibility

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• Sometimes compromise is important. Sometimes it's better to give in to someone else's wishes in order to have fun as a group or as a couple, or for the benefit of the team. Sometimes compromise is dangerous. We need to guard against compromising our standards to gain the approval or love of someone else. Decide when you can, and when you cannot, compromise. If it's not harmful and you are ambivalent about a decision, then compromise. If it could lead to breaking your values, compromise isn't a good idea.

  Melody Beattie

  Couple, Fun, Team

  Melody Beattie (2009). “More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• The level of our obedience is most often determined by the behavior standard of other Christians around us.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, Levels, Determined

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness”, p.70, Tyndale House

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• You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.

  Learned Hand

  Voice, Doubt, Mind

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• A family is not built just by marrying a woman and producing children. Family is built with a timeless sacrifice which must represent purity, unity, standard of ethics, righteousness, grace, dignity, divinity and principles.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Children

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• Carbon dioxide is natural, it is not harmful, it is a part of Earth's lifecycle. And yet we're being told that we have to reduce this natural substance, reduce the American standard of living, to create an arbitrary reduction in something that is naturally occurring in Earth.

  Michele Bachmann

  Environmental, Arbitrary, Substance

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• I look for strong people. I don't like people who'll say yes to everything I might bring up. I want people who can argue and disagree and have a point of view that's reflected in the magazine. My dad believed in the cult of personality. He brought great writers and columnists to The Standard.

  Anna Wintour

  Fashion, Strong, Dad

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• It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in vassalage by kings, priests, and nobles; and it is honorable for us to have produced the first legislature who had the courage to declare that the reason of man may be trusted with the formation of his own opinions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kings, Men, Independence

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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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 Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Integrity, Motherhood, Men

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• We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards.

  Bill Shuster

  Religious, Prayer, Years

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• Men respect women who have standards - get some!

  Steve Harvey

  Men, Dating, Respect Women

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• Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does

  Peter Kreeft

  Evil, Judgement, Doe

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• For 40 years we were led to think of the Russians as godless, materialistic and an evil empire. When the Cold War ended, we suddenly discovered that Russia was a poor Third World country. They had not been equipped to take over the world. In fact, they were just trying to improve a miserable standard of oppressive living, and couldn't. They had to spend too much on arms build-up. We didn't win the Cold War; we bankrupted the Russians. In effect, it was a big bank exhausting the reserves of a smaller one.

  Norman Mailer

  Country, War, Winning

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• Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.

  Alan Bennett

  Computer

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• In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade.... The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Military, Army, Men

  T. E. Lawrence (2013). “Seven Pillars of Wisdom”, p.349, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you and then, if you are bad, roasts you: God as a high school principal in a gray suit who never remembered your name but is always leafing unhappily through your files.

  Anne Lamott

  God, Love You, School

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• A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

  Alexander Herzen

  Business, Ambition, Views

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• Find thoughts that feel good, because it is inevitable that you are going to always be moving toward something. So why not be moving toward something that is pleasing? You can't cease to vibrate, and Law of Attraction will not stop responding to the vibration that you are offering. So, expansion is inevitable. You provide it, whether you know you do, or not. The only question is, what is the standard of joy that you are demanding for yourself? From your Nonphysical perspective, it's a high, high standard.

  Esther Hicks

  Moving, Law Of Attraction, Offering

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• It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. In the thick of men it dwindles and disappears, life fruit in the thick of a wood; but where people are planted sparely it blossoms and matures, like apples on a standard or an espalier. It flourishes where the inn and lodging-house cannot exist.

  Hugh Miller

  Men, Apples, People

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• The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show.

  Garry Shandling

  Would Be, Way, Comedy

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• By today's beauty standards, of course, Marilyn Monroe was an oil tanker.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Beauty, Oil

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.168, Ballantine Books

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