Standards Set Quotes

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  La calidad de un líder se refleja en las normas que se impone a sí mismo.

  Ray Kroc

  Inspiración, motivación, liderazgo

  "Biografía/Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• Tienes competencia todos los días porque te pones el listón tan alto que tienes que salir todos los días y estar a la altura.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Competition, Champion

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• Si no fijas una norma de referencia para lo que vas a aceptar en la vida, verás que es fácil caer en comportamientos y actitudes o en una calidad de vida muy por debajo de lo que mereces.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Attitude, Quality

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 23, 2015

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• It is possible to rise to the lofty standard set by the Lord for priesthood holders in making decisions in quorums. It is possible when there is great faith and love and the absence of contention.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Decision, And Love, Absence

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• 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

  High Standards, Today, Imagine

  "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.

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• With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

  Peter Abrahams

  Dream, Book, Self

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• A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

  Irving Babbitt

  Men, Self, Underdog

  Irving Babbitt, George Andrew Panichas (1981). “Irving Babbitt, representative writings”, Univ of Nebraska Pr

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• The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom.

  Martha Beck

  Goal, Way, Strive

  Martha Beck (2011). “Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic”, p.116, Harmony

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• Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only 'certain' standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.

  Zhuangzi

  Mistake, Mean, Men

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• Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Being The Best, Lows, Be Good

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• By going on the defensive. [...] libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should be policed for propriety, and that those who violate standards set by the PC set are somehow defective on those grounds alone and deserve to be purged from "polite" company.

  Ilana Mercer

  Libertarian, Speech, Should

  "Fee-fi-fo-fem, I Smell The Blood Of A Racist". www.wnd.com. May 15, 2014.

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• One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's long-practiced taste and by his conviction that only those innovations will be significant which promote the established direction of advanced art.

  Leo Steinberg

  Art, Long, Innovation

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• Haz avanzar nuestros estandartes, enfréntate a nuestros enemigos;
  Nuestra antigua palabra de valor, bello San Jorge,
  ¡inspíranos con el spleen de los dragones ardientes!

  William Shakespeare

  Saint George, Dragons, Inspire

  1592-3 Richard. Richard III, act 5, sc.6, l.77-81.

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• How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ?

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Adventure, Climbing, Years

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• Young girls are obsessed with having a thigh gap. I blame the impossible body standards set by Spongebob.

  Stephen Colbert

  Girl, Perfect, Body

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• It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Technology, Men, People

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• Siempre he sido muy rebelde y he ido a contracorriente. Siempre he desafiado las normas que me imponían.

  Amber Heard

  Gone, Amber, Rebellious

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• You've got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business.

  Steve Harvey

  Relación, Éxito, Fe

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

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• Desgraciadamente, hay una norma establecida que precede al hip-hop. Sería estupendo que las empresas estadounidenses no lo hicieran, pero existe un enorme mercado para el sexo, la violencia y las representaciones antinegras en Estados Unidos y en el mundo que no empieza ni termina con el hip-hop.

  Bakari Kitwana

  Sex, America, Hip Hop

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