Standards Quotes
118 quotes
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]"
"A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence."
"I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard."
"The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet 'Heavenly Father' is a grand reflection, a relation to that of human nature."
"Someone out there is looking for exactly what you've got…and will never try and undercut your value or question your worth. Some things in life just can’t be bartered over or placed on the sale rack – and your self-worth is at the top of the list."
Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
"Many a survivor of a plane crash who is or was against cannibalism and had never eaten human flesh once found themselves in a situation where they had to either eat human flesh, or go the way of all flesh."
"If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry."
"When it comes to their love lives, some people do not really have high standards; they merely have low sex drive."
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.", February 25, 1933]"
"If you do not work on self- improvement or do not develop strength of character, you will be inclined to succumb to the opinions of the people surrounding you or to the standards criminally imposed on you by the society"
"Let them be what they want to be. Make yourselves what you want to be."
"Human being living at the level of biomass will comply with all standards and patterns that are required by the surroundings and society"
"When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody."
"My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he did not care to read a book or go to a play about people he would not care to meet at his own dinner table. I believe we should live by certain standards and ideals..."
"we will never be tempted to live by the standards of other people or to be guided by someone else’s opinions if we know who we are"
"Whatever you do, do it with passion; learn new things, set new standards. If you fall down, get up; just get going, non-stop. This is how dreams come true."
"The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone."
"If someone isn't what others want them to be, the other become angry."
"A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything."
"Subtle cues in your behavior will set the frame that you are a selective, high-value guy. She will pick up on this and gain interest. She expects that a guy with potential will be selective. Here are some standards worth considering: An attractive woman who takes care of herself A woman who is sociable and has friends A woman who has a real thirst for life A woman who has a great energy and a positive outlook A woman who is not a flake"
Erik Von Markovik, The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed
"Don't apologize for expressing passion.Don't back down when it comes to your integrity.Don't let anyone undermine your standards for the sake of ease.Be a character of excellence, NOT excuses."
"Standards are not established by your proclamations they are established by your routines."
"A person with low standards will forever be walking. A person with high standard will soon stop walking and start running. Later, they’ll soon stop running and start galloping. The next time you see him, he’s either flying or soaring."
"A goal shouldn't be limited to a title."
"Learning from failure boosts a leader's chance of staying ahead of his standards. Leaders who rise quickly after falling are always stable."
"The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again."
"A useful education served women best, More thought. To ‘learn how to grow old gracefully is perhaps one of the rarest and most valuable arts which can be taught to a woman.’ Yet, when beauty is all that is expected or desired in a woman, she is left with nothing in its absence. It ‘is a most severe trail for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources,’ she argued."
"You deserve respect and appreciation. A person who doesn't have respect for themselves will more than likely not give it to you. You have to set the standard for yourself by not allowing the insolence."
"The time we are living in has its own conditions, peculiarities and standards"
"God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has to punish those guilty of sin. Maybe that's not an appealing standard. But to put it bluntly, when you get your own universe, you can make your own standards."
"The unconditional love that God gives us when we are in relationship with him frees us and sustains us; we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves according to worldly standards, we are fine just the way we are."
"We were born of God to influence the standards of the world"
"This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be."
"Don’t wish the world demanded less of you. Rise up and exceed its standards."
"If we don't fight for what we 'stand for' with our passionate words and honest actions, do we really 'stand' for anything?"
"It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it."
Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
"It's a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please…be selective."
Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
"Stop inviting people who don't celebrate you to your party! It's YOUR life - you have the right to be exclusive."
Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
"If a man WANTS to be with you, he will make his actions clear. There won’t be any questions, murkiness, cloudiness, or fear."
Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
"Look around you at the people you spend the most time with and realize that your life can’t rise any higher than your friendships."
Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
"Too easy to get = Just as easy to forget."
Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
"Sit your affections, your heart and your precious time out on the doorstep without so much as making him ring the doorbell first, and he’ll treat you like a doormat. Make him work a little to get next to you, and he won’t stop til you’re his."
Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
"Here's a glorious thought: You don't have to settle. Ever. In life, in love, in your career…ANYWHERE!"
Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
"A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure."
"God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards."
"The biggest insult to any parent is a child that lives up to society standards and not his or her full potential."
"There is nothing better for your family than for you to be at your best, for you to be at your own peace, for you to be showing them in every way who you are, and what you stand for."
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
"In other words, for purposes of sex discrimination law, to be a woman means either to be like a man or like a lady. We have to meet either the male standard for males or the male standard for females."
"Valys also didn't think I was good enough for him. He made that clear every time he acted like a martyr forced to settle. But what he didn't understand was that if he thought I might not be good enough for him, he definitely wasn't good enough for me. I was well aware of my flaws, but I knew my merits, too; I shouldn't have to be anyone's second-best. Least of all, his."
"[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing."
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