When we encourage others With no personal motives, We raise high, very high, Humanity's progress-standard.
I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It's too bad they don't apply the same standards to presidential candidates as they do to high school students.
Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?
The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.
My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.
Christ makes Heaven the standard for God's will be done on Earth. What a high ideal is this! What power it would take to bring such a thing about! Nothing short of the Kingdom of God pulling down strongholds, overthrowing bastions of deeply entrenche...
I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less.
I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.
A true comedian is really a good humanitarian, but a very rare few match up to that high standard.
I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.
They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said.
But there's a huge blessing that comes from being a part of a show like 'The Cosby Show' that sets such a high standard of quality - it touched so many people on so many different levels.
The challenge for people today--and it is not and easy one--is to maintain high personal standards even while feeling that one is living in a moral sewer.
In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.
Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards, we should use them.
My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.
I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.
The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.
I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.
There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our government accountable for robbin...
Senator Jon Kyl has given all of the eventual candidates in this race an excellent model of how to best serve Arizona and the country. He's set the bar extremely high, and I'll do my best to meet that standard.
