Top 666 Standards Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Standards Quotes from famous people such as Moby, Gulzar, N. Murray Edwards, Andrea Leadsom, Walter Gropius, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves t

We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we’ve never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we’d always fall short.
Moby
It is important for poets and writers today to know their shortcomings, and be able to edit their own work as well as reject them if they are not up to their standards.
Gulzar
All of us are going to have to find ways to do things more efficiently, find ways to get our costs more in line, and do it in a time of higher regulatory and environmental standards.
N. Murray Edwards
By cutting the red tape that comes out of Brussels, we will free our farmers to grow more, sell more, and export more great British food whilst upholding our high standards for plant and animal health and welfare.
Andrea Leadsom
In all great epochs of history, the existence of standards – that is, the conscious adoption of type-forms – has been the criterion of a polite, well-ordered society; for it is a commonplace that repetition of the same things for the same purpose exercises a settling and civilizing influence on men’s minds.
Walter Gropius
The ability of our people to think quickly and create great products in this whole new world of Internet open standards is not only essential to our success but is also one of the things that impresses me most about Netscape.
Jim Barksdale
I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don’t use the gibberish of the standards writers.
Jonathan Kozol
Every school, including voucher and charter schools, must be held to strict accountability standards.
John Bel Edwards
Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn’t so bad.
Paul A. Volcker
What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.
Serge Lang
Four Seasons’ legendary brand epitomizes the highest standards for service in the hospitality industry worldwide.
Julia Hartz
I’ve heard from pre-K and kindergarten teachers alike that the Common Core is inappropriately pushing written literacy standards when the focus should be on the development of oral literacy skills. And that’s actually delaying the development of literacy.
Randi Weingarten
What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.
Jane Alexander
The trailblazers are my role models in this industry: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, and Billy Dee Williams. I keep their pictures in my trailer and try to measure to their standards every time I act.
Brian J. White
Chevron’s failure to adhere to basic standards of decency undermines the credibility of our capitalist model and diminishes confidence that our judicial system can serve the poor as well as the rich.
Kerry Kennedy
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
Thomas Sowell
I know for me like I have a reputation of being kind of tough, I have a reputation of also being the girl next door, kind of sweet but I have standards and my thing is, it’s me on that screen and I don’t have control over everything in this and I’m grateful and thankful.
Nia Long
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
If wildly variable refereeing standards not yet a crisis, we are reaching a tipping point. And it may take more than the dawn of VARs to sort out the mess.
Robbie Savage
To draft a bill of rights that simply replicates the European convention on human rights gives the game away; namely that the Human Rights Act does, in fact, offer appropriate protection to all of our citizens according to universally accepted standards.
Keir Starmer
One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That’s the underlying lie that supports the regime – not that their country is ‘normal’ but that they are better off.
Barbara Demick
Our ACE proposal will reduce CO2 approximately the same levels that the Clean Power Plan would have, if it had been implemented. And we’re reducing CO2 from our CAFE standards.
Andrew R. Wheeler
It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.
Elihu Root
Many female politicians get intimidated by the aggressive behaviour of men. I don’t. Not because I am a courageous person or anything, but because I see international standards, and I see that they are worth fighting for.
Safak Pavey
My songs lie somewhere in between the evergreen standards, rock n’ roll and pop.
Neil Sedaka
Our objective in regulation should be to put in place tough enough regulation and capital and liquidity standards that we level the playing field and make it costly.
Janet Yellen
President Trump’s critics call him an immoral lout. By strict moral standards, so are we all.
Michael J. Knowles
The male role is heavily policed from birth, by parents, peers and bosses. Politicians in particular are harshly kept in line by a media that seems to uphold more bizarrely rigid standards of conformity than those held by any citizen.
Grayson Perry
I have high standards I hold myself to, besides Christianity.
Jason David Frank
While not a panacea for the nation’s illegal immigration problems, employer sanctions are one necessary means of stopping the exploitation of vulnerable workers and the undercutting of American jobs and living standards.
Coretta Scott King
By Hollywood standards I’m still fat: until you are zero, you are big. I do get cold a lot now. I used to have a lot of layers – now I got to get a fur coat.
Lisa Lampanelli
E.U. law provides agency workers with the right to equa

E.U. law provides agency workers with the right to equal treatment, and all workers with maximum working hours. It forces governments to take environmental legislation seriously, and to protect air and water standards.
Clive Lewis
Under Bill Clinton’s HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo, Community Reinvestment Act regulators gave banks higher ratings for home loans made in ‘credit-deprived’ areas. Banks were effectively rewarded for throwing out sound underwriting standards and writing loans to those who were at high risk of defaulting.
Lawrence Kudlow
In real constabularies, the relevant department that is the subject of ‘Line of Duty’ is called Professional Standards. However, ‘Line of Duty’ is set in a fictional anticorruption department, AC-12, in order to prevent any unintentional resemblance to actual units, cases, or individuals.
Jed Mercurio
Parents and teachers alike are alarmed by this top-down approach to education that wrongly ties education money for states to the adoption of academic standards that do not fully reflect the values of South Carolina.
Jeff Duncan
It seems, by today’s standards, that it’s better to seek approval than to tell the truth. It’s better to utter sweet nothings than to boldly say something of substance.
Monica Johnson
By Rice’s own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?
Howard Fineman
In sports, you get disqualified if you violate the rules, but in Ukrainian politics, no standards are at work.
Vitali Klitschko
When you fail by your own standards, it’s a form of success.
Bonnie Hunt
Too fat, too thin, too loud, too quiet – I was never going to fit the standards others created for me. Instead of complying, I protested.
Ashley Graham
Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.
Thomas E. Mann
I don’t have high standards in taste; I prefer soju over wine.
Kim Woo-bin
If people are coming in in dribs and drabs, it doesn’t look good. You have to have standards and have rules to adhere to. If you have that then it carries on into the training.
Steve Clarke
We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns.
Mike Davidson
I’ve got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I’m from the South – Tennessee, to be exact – and down there, we’re all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!
Miley Cyrus
Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
Samuel E. Morison
Even I don’t always come up to my own standards of perfection.
Paul Hollywood
Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.
Vladimir Putin
Bioethics is a very, very important field. As we get more and more in the arena of understanding science and getting better opportunities, the fact that you can do things with biological sciences that have an impact on a human being means you must have ethical standards.
Anthony Fauci
My method of praying does not meet the conventional standards as I don’t recite any specific prayers but rather indulge in conversations with God.
Tanushree Dutta
You set standards so things can be measured and done at a championship level.
Tom Thibodeau
We very clearly do not want an authoritarian regime… setting standards in the world marketplace.
John Ratcliffe
We should forcefully call out China whenever it violates international standards.
Sherrod Brown
By many peoples’ standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I’m a virtuoso.
Robert Quine
One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.
Ezra Taft Benson