Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.

In short, do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is…only you are qualified to set your standards. Only you can...

Stop inviting people who don’t celebrate you to your party! It’s YOUR life – you have the right to be exclusive.

Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

I think we often hold heroines to an absurd standard. Be brave! Be wise! Always know what’s in your heart and speak the truth of it! No and no and no. We fight to be...

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

Your progress as a Jiu Jitsu practitioner is a direct reflection of the standards you have for yourself.

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...

These sci-fi fans are phenomenal in the standards that they hold you to.

A companion gave me his credit card to pay for an exam that was dear to my heart. Pretty much an hour for the paper to begin, I went to the Administration to make payment....

The Dead Hand, yeah, it was, like, seminal, but tame by today’s standards. Violet, for instance, did not get her intestines ripped out. There wasn’t any torture, nobody’s liver got fried in a pan, there...

How different our standard is from Christ’s. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps.

A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.

The world is a palace without bedsheets

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...

You cannot ask someone to like you or love you more than you like or love yourself. YOU have to set the standard.

Set a high standard on how you treat women. Whether they appreciate it or not, don’t lower your own standards of behavior.

A spirit of license makes a man refuse to commit himself to any standards. The right time is the way he sets his watch. The yardstick has the number of inches that he wills it...

Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions.

Rather than communicating blame communicate your standards for proper future treatment.

Aspire to high standards, expect strong results, offer self praise, and stack your confidence.

Don’t lower your standards to keep anyone, if they’re not making you happy, it’s time to find someone who does.

Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don’t know why, become tarnished because of it.

I am so much happier when I am doing the things that make me me, and that’s living by my standards and doing the things I love, using my talents, however random they are, to...

Don’t let yourself stagnate or reach a plateau. Keep learning, keep improving. Be open to change. Your ability to constantly raise the bar higher and set standards will help you evolve and take you to...

Values carry the message of shared purposes, standards and conceptions of what is worth living for and what is worth striving for.

Find what is meaningful to you and stand by it. Even if you begin to wonder if there is any meaning to anything, continue to be yourself.

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...

You set the standard for how people will treat and regard you, by how you treat and regard yourself.

It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it.

Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail ­ as you surely...

Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.

Although once when we were talking after class, Herr Silverman told me that when someone rises up and holds himself to a higher standard, even when doing so benefits others, average people resent it, mostly...

What used to be edgy (divorces) has become mainstream and what used to be mainstream (racism and sexism) has become shocking.

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...

To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions.

The cult of friendship disturbs me. It’s like our quality is supposed to be measured by the number of friends we have. For me, it’s quite the inverse. When somebody says “I’m friends with everyone”...

Evolving and bettering yourself is wonderful, but not if the set of standards and values you adopt smothers you into oblivion in the process.

It’s a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please…be selective.

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...

The economy of your country shall never determine the size of your three square meals if you know you can rise against and above all limitations! The climatic emergencies in the weather shall never determine...

Be a peacemaker but never at the expense of your character or God’s standards.

[O]ne person’s ‘barbarian’ is another person’s ‘just doing what everybody else is doing.

The worst feature of the Common Core is its anti-humanistic, utilitarian approach to education. It mistakes what a child is and what a human being is for. That is why it has no use for...

There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them.

you gotta stay with him because he needs you and he has been your husband for 20 years for heaven sakes. You just have to work to love him more and so on.” This is...

The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn’t stop anyone.

The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism; and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law...

In most languages, ‘control’ is the first synonym for the word ‘manage.’ Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.

The more you pray, the more you are stating your desire to live your life by God’s standards.