Not only do I believe that it is possible to maintain moral standards without the crutch of religion but I would argue that it is the only way to achieve true goodness.
Explore your limits and get to know yourself. You'll never feel more real than after the hardest workout, the longest run, the toughest week, or the best race of your life. Constantly make your own standards tougher.
I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.
Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.
Fear not; only believe. This is a time to make resolutions that will be binding upon you. This is a season to set standards that will hold you to the right course and make you happy now and in the years that follow.
I think there should be national standards on the use of legal force.
Don't let the best you have done so far be the standard for the rest of your life.
Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways
Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all.
Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society.
Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.
I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season.
Serena and I, we don't have anything to prove. . . we still set a very high standard.
If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.
If we're going to have standards in schools, let's be honest and have standards.
The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.
Labor is the true standard of value.
I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the terrible cruelty of poverty.
I keep hearing I'm a crazy party guy. . . I'm not. I'm boring. . . At least by party standards.
I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.