Leaders must live by higher standards than their followers.
Yes, I think India's economy always has been a mixed economy, and by Western standards we are much more of a market economy than a public sector-driven economy.
We have standards. Anybody with the kind of journalism experience and professionalism that you have displayed over these years can not work for my program.
When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.
Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.
Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.
Success is not rightly measured by the worldly standards of wealth, prestige and power. None of these bestow happiness unless they are rightly used. To use them rightly one must possess wisdom and love for God and man.
We need to stand together. Since I was elected leader of our party, we have repeatedly defeated the government over its attacks on living standards.
By what you decide to put on your body, for example, you're already making a personal judgement. That's an incredible thing that happens. . . we set our own standards even before we walk out the door. Most of the time, those standards are self insulting. Most of the time we belittle ourselves, because we can't have the things we think we're suppose to have. That's what we've bought into.
There was danger at times that women might not be judged by the highest standards, but more leniently because of their sex. "She is a remarkably good chemist--for a woman," you might hear a man say. It seemed to me essential, if the ablest young women scholars were to achieve the best work of which they were capable, that they should be held to the most rigorous standards. . . . To advance, a woman must do at least as good work as her male colleagues, usually better.
Natural" is a very dangerous word to use about sexuality. . . Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since they rely on the changing standards of superstition, religion, Christianity and gender bias to define themselves. Americans, in particular, exhibit very childish reactions to sexual practices that are new to them, much like little kids who are offered a vegetable they haven't seen before: "That's disgusting!" "But darling, you haven't even tried it!" "I don't care, I hate it, I hate it!
Society has low standards for what is considered good or great music.
And what is writ is writ - Would it were worthier!
The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities
When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.
Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.
Men respect women who have standards - get some!
I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed
I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.
If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.