High Standards Quotes:

In business, I've discovered that my purpose is to do my best to my utmost ability every day. That's my standard. I learned early in my life that I had high standards.

- Donald Trump

source: Interview With Richard Gere, gotham-magazine.com. May 3, 2012.

topic: Business, Purpose, High Standards

People mistake their limitations for high standards.

- Jean Toomer

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

topic: Mistake, People, High Standards, Higher Standards

As a leader, you have to not only do the right thing, but be perceived to be doing the right thing. A consequence of seeking a leadership position is being put under intense public scrutiny, being held to high standards, and enhancing a reputation that is constantly under threat.

- Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

topic: Integrity, Leader, High Standards

We have a high standard of living. ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe, income has merely doubled.

- Jens Stoltenberg

source: "At the Top: An interview with Jens Stoltenberg". Interview in Torgrim Eggen, 2001.

topic: Europe, Income, High Standards, Western Europe

That's the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.

- John Dos Passos

topic: Past, Events, High Standards, Past Events, Future Events

High standards generally -- about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and much else -- far from being snobbish, are required to maintain decency in life.

- Joseph Epstein

topic: Art, Quality, High Standards, Workmanship, Snobbish

I can't help it! I'm just a woman with high standards!

- Josie Maran

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

topic: High Standards, Helping, Standards

I'm really shallow when I come to guys. I only date really good-looking, well-endowed guys, with great bodies. My friends are always going on at me. I'm like. 'I can't help it! I'm just a woman with high standards!'

- Josie Maran

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Guy, High Standards, Body

I hold myself to a very high standard, and I hold my contributions to that same high standard. I will not accept any contributions that are illegal, inappropriate or tainted.

- Kevin Shelley

topic: High Standards, Inappropriate, Accepting, Tainted

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

- Kurt Loder

topic: Rocks, Rolling, High Standards

My life has had meaning, with the friendships full and valuable and essential to me. My children, Steve, Leslie, and Sam, are all different-all first-rate human beings with high standards-whom I completely and unequivocally adore-don't always agree with-but always admire and respect. They all have wit and a sense of humor and, thank God, I have hung on to mine.

- Lauren Bacall

topic: Children, Thank God, High Standards, Leslie

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

- Marva Collins

source: Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher

topic: Teacher, High Standards, Students

A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.

- Marya Mannes

source: Marya Mannes (1948). “Message from a Stranger: A Novel”

topic: Thinking, High Standards, Lows

We make no apologies for setting high standards.

- Nancy L. Zimpher

topic: Apology, High Standards, Standards

I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself.

- Olivia Newton-John

topic: High Standards, Standards

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

- Patrice Motsepe

topic: Perfection, High Standards, Mediocre

Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society.

- Pratibha Patil

topic: Government, People, High Standards, Civil Society, Financial Institutions

I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season

- Rio Ferdinand

source: "Gerrard sounds clarion call", www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2005.

topic: High Standards, Standards

Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.

- Sarah Dessen

topic: Girl, Boys, High Standards

I have a lot of respect for the auto manufacturers. They make a product people live inside - and can die inside - so they are held to very high standards.

- Shai Agassi

topic: People, High Standards, Standards

The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger of history is that we use it as an excuse and remain trapped in it. I cannot blame my history for anything, and therefore I have to have high standards for myself.

- Stefan Molyneux

topic: Use, High Standards, Blame

I sort of set myself really high standards which is good and bad. If I know that I've done all I can to prepare, that's when I race the best and in '09 I was going through a lot of emotional ups and downs and I was never as fit as I would have liked to have been. So I never felt comfortable.

- Stephanie Rice

source: "Stephanie Rice, champion swimmer". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. March 14, 2010.

topic: Emotional, Race, High Standards

You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.

- Tiki Barber

topic: Eye, Touching, High Standards, Public Eye

Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?

- Tom Peters

topic: Past, High Standards, Levels

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

- William Hague

source: "Hague's 'foreign land' speech". William Hague's speech to the Spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.

topic: Discipline, Common Sense, High Standards, Good Discipline

I don't have expectations with people, but I have very high standards for myself. The only time I get disappointed in life is when I disappoint myself.

- Chronixx

topic: People, Expectations, High Standards

I found with poetry that I couldn't keep it up. I was too vulnerable. Maybe I was too aware of the audience. And I had impossibly high standards that I could never approach. So there was always a sense of being a failure, and of being vulnerable.

- Jonathan Santlofer

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: High Standards, Vulnerable, Found

Being a professional does not have a very high standard.

- Terry Bozzio

topic: Doe, High Standards, Standards

Israel is a tremendous success story. When I arrived, there were 600,000 Jews living here. Today there are close to 6 million. We have one of the world's top high-tech industries and a high standard of living. There is only one thing we haven't achieved: Making the country safer for Jews.

- Yair Lapid

topic: Country, Israel, High Standards, Success Stories

And with puppets, especially in our company, we sort of demand a very high standard of puppetry, so it's a real technical skill.

- Brian Henson

topic: Real, Skills, High Standards, Technical Skills

Maybe the standards should be higher to be an officer. People will say there area high standards, but clearly they're not high enough.

- Brandon Marshall

source: Source: www.ebony.com

topic: People, High Standards, Enough

I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.

- Jim Evans

topic: Games, Energy, High Standards, Energy And Enthusiasm

While it's good that we maintain high standards for companies seeking to claim environmental leadership, I can't help but ponder the hypocrisy of it all: how much more we expect of companies than of ourselves.

- Joel Makower

topic: Hypocrisy, Environmental, High Standards

You've got to set high standards for yourself.

- Marcus Giles

topic: High Standards, Standards

Today the Secretary of State said that of the 247 candidates, so far 115 of them have been certified. How embarrassing is that? Imagine if you were turned down because you didn't meet the high standards set by Larry Flynt and Gallagher.

- Jay Leno

source: "Hey, did you hear the one about the California recall election? Chads may have been hung in Florida, but the Golden State is keeping the nation's comics in funny business" by James Sullivan, www.sfgate.com. August 28, 2003.

topic: Standards Set, High Standards, Today, Gallagher

Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

- Alain de Botton

source: Twitter post from Mar 14, 2015

topic: High Standards, Standards, Idealist

I'm with someone who's got very high standards, and he doesn't tolerate all these ridiculous vices very easily. That's not reason enough to marry someone, although people have gotten married for less.

- Chrissie Hynde

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: People, Vices, High Standards

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

topic: Hate, Men, High Standards, Dostoyevsky, Decent Man

People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.

- Temple Grandin

source: Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson (2009). “Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior”, p.29, SUNY Press

topic: People, Perfection, High Standards

For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard - despite decreasing resources - cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.

- R. Buckminster Fuller

source: R. Buckminster Fuller “Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

topic: Men, High Standards, Politics

If you are of the truth, if you have learned the truth, if you see the sanctity of the truth, then speak truth. We are not called to be deceivers or liars. God is a God of truth, and His people are called to have an enormously high standard of truth.

- R. C. Sproul

topic: Liars, People, High Standards, Deceiver

I’m a big believer in starting with high standards and raising them. We make progress only when we push ourselves to the highest level. If we don’t progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.

- Dan Gable

source: Gable, Dan (1998). “Coaching Wrestling Successfully”, p.15, Human Kinetics

topic: Attitude, Progress, High Standards

As you live high standards publicly and privately, and even under great pressure adhere to them, you raise the vision of others.

- Richard G. Scott

topic: Vision, High Standards, Pressure

There are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance.

- John Wooden

topic: High Standards, Done, Littles

Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.

- Deepak Chopra

source: "Superpower, Real and Unreal" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2005.

topic: Change, Comforting, High Standards, Standards Of Living

Serena and I, we don't have anything to prove ... we still set a very high standard.

- Venus Williams

topic: High Standards, Standards, Prove

Nobody owes anybody anything; it's up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.

- Katharine Hepburn

topic: Creating, High Standards, Individual

I have very high standards for myself and my career.

- Ryan Kwanten

source: "Ryan Kwanten Exclusive Interview RED HILL; Plus an Update on THE KNIGHTS OF BADASSDOM". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 4, 2010.

topic: Careers, High Standards, Standards

I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.

- Brett Dennen

source: Source: renownedforsound.com

topic: Song, Writing, High Standards

There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because I felt like it wasn't up to my high standards. I would push and pull it on set, and make changes all the time. But then when you're working with an original screenplay, my theater instincts kick in, and I suddenly become very keeper-of-the-words.

- Sam Mendes

source: Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 2, 2009.

topic: High Standards, Making Changes, Instinct

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

- Brian Tracy

source: Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.9, Jaico Publishing House

topic: Leadership, High Standards, Mediocrity, Poor Performance

God has set up a high standard of righteousness. He has made plain a distinction between human and divine wisdom. All who work on Christ's side must work to save, not to destroy.

- Ellen G. White

source: Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Special Testimonies Series: A and B”, p.422, Lulu Press, Inc

topic: Divine Wisdom, Sides, High Standards

I couldn't say a specific thing, but the media is not really held to high standards anymore.

- Scott Eastwood

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Media, High Standards, Standards

I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.

- Olivia Wilde

topic: High Standards, Food Love, Parts Of Life