Quotes about Standards

The Christian market has less competition and lower standards.

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

Integrity, a firm adherence to the highest moral and ethical standards, is essential to the life of a true Latter-day Saint.

What I am for is protecting, with the highest standards in our courts, the religious liberty of Hoosiers.

Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.

We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and become part of the atmosphere which writers breathe as they work. An influence is created which tells upon them even if it never finds its way into print.

There is no mark on the wall to measure the precise height of women. There are no yard measures neatly divided into the fractions of an inch that one can lay against the qualities of a good mother or the devotion of a daughter or fidelity of a sister or the capacity of a housekeeper.

Is it the lot of average human being, however, he asked himself, the criterion by which we judge the measure of civilization?

I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced had no existence.

Let people know what you stand for and what you won't stand for.

The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.