(881 quotes found)
“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life -- not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving -- not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness -- not by our seeming greatness.”
William Arthur Ward
“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
“Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.”
W. C. Fields
“Just because I have my standards, they think I'm a bitch”
Diana Ross
“By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died”
Hunter S. Thompson
“To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.”
Bill Gates
“In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.”
W. H. Auden
“Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader”
John Dryden
“I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.”
Yousuf Karsh
