Standards Quotes - Page 19

• Keep your heel, head and standards high.

  Coco Chanel

  Heels

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• God's standard of judgment goes down to the intents of the heart.

  Ray Comfort

  Heart, Judgment

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• People most strenuously seek to evaluate performance by comparing themselves to others, not by using absolute standards.

  Leon Festinger

  People, Compare, Performances

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• When God blesses you financially, don't raise your STANDARD OF LIVING. raise your STANDARD OF GIVING.

  Mark Batterson

  Giving, God Bless You, Raises

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2013

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• But when Warren has spoken on national security, she has invariably spouted warmed-over, banal Democratic hawk tripe of the kind that she just recited about Israel and Gaza. During her Senate campaign, for instance, she issued wildly militaristic – and in some cases clearly false – statements about Iran and its nuclear program that would have been comfortable on the pages of The Weekly Standard.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Israel, Iran, Nuclear

  "Elizabeth Warren Finally Speaks on Israel/Gaza, Sounds Like Netanyahu". readersupportednews.org. August 28, 2014.

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• The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.

  Clark Gable

  Mother, Song, Fighting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Parents have a right to expect that their efforts at home won't be undone each day in the school cafeteria or in the vending machine in the hallway. ...Parents have a right to expect that their kids will be served fresh, healthy food that meets high nutritional standards.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, School, Kids

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• Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low.

  Howard Stern

  Night, All Time Low, Gone

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• I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Science, Fiction, World

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• Our first love is Jesus. Holiness is not ultimately about living up to a moral standard. It's about living in Christ and living out of our real, vital union with him.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Jesus, Real, First Love

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• Creating breathing room financially may lower your standard of living but raise your quality of life.

  Andy Stanley

  Breathing, Creating, Quality

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• The awkward truth, according to one study, is that 90 percent of 8-to-16-year-ol ds have viewed pornography online. Considering the standard climax to even the most vanilla hard-core scene today, that means there is an entire generation of young people who think sex ends with a money shot to the face.

  Gail Dines

  Sex, Mean, Thinking

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• There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Aimlessness, Matter, Ideals

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• That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hands, People, Technique

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• Releasing guilt is like removing a huge weight from your shoulders. Guilt is released through the empowering thought of love and respect for yourself. Let go of standards of perfection and refuse to use up the precious currency of your life, the now, with thoughts that continue to frustrate and weaken you. Instead, vow to be better than you used to be, which is the true test of nobility.

  Wayne Dyer

  Letting Go, Perfection, Empowering

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Oct 06, 2015

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• Who you spend time with is who you become! Change your life by consciously choosing to surround yourself with people with higher standards!

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, People, Changing Your Life

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Apr 18, 2012

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• The greatest leverage you can create for yourself is the pain that comes from inside, not outside. Knowing that you have failed to live up to your own standards for your life is the ultimate pain.

  Tony Robbins

  Pain, Knowing, Life Is

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, People, Ordinary

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2008). “Man Alone with Himself”, p.8, Penguin UK

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• When you reach a place where you feel blocked, lower your standards and keep on going. There is no possible way to do permanent damage to a piece of writing. You cannot ruin it. You can only make it a little better a little at a time.

  Richard Bausch

  Writing, Pieces, Littles

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• When one 'we' gets to determine standards for all 'we's' then some 'we's' are in trouble.

  Lisa Delpit

  Trouble, Determine

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• Never be satisfied with the world's standard of Christianity!

  J. C. Ryle

  World, Christianity, Satisfied

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• Lowering your standards is the key to happiness.

  Ramon Bautista

  Keys, Key To Happiness

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• The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.

  Lou Holtz

  Hypocrite

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• The standard God has for you has nothing to do with approval, and everything to do with purpose.

  Steven Furtick

  Purpose, Approval

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• We won't win every battle. We won't save every child. But together we can be the standard bearers of human dignity by being present in humility and in solidarity with the world's most vulnerable individuals, families and communities.

  Joia Mukherjee

  Children, Humility, Winning

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