High Standards Quotes

“People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Keep your standards even when everyone around you is losing theirs.”
― Habeeb Akande

“When you lower the definition of success to such a level that any person can reach it, you don’t teach people to have big dreams; instead you inspirit mediocrity and nurture people’s inadequacies.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“One must know a bad performance to know a good one. You can't be middle-of-the-road about it, just as you can't be middle-of-the-road about life. I mean, you can't say about Hitler, I can take him or leave him. Well, I can't be middle-of-the-road about a performance, especially my own. I feel that if I can vomit at seeing a bad performance, I'm ahead of the game.”
― Patricia Bosworth, Montgomery Clift: A Biography

“A person with low standards will forever be walking. A person with high standard will soon stop walking and start running. Later, they’ll soon stop running and start galloping. The next time you see him, he’s either flying or soaring.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“Be with a person who treats you like their crown,
proudly honoring you infront of the world.
Not with someone who treats you like a trophy,
secured for their sense of achievement”
― Henna Sohail

“When it comes to their love lives, some people do not really have high standards; they merely have low sex drive.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“High heels evoke a sensuality in a woman.”
― Lebo Grand, Sensual Lifestyle

“Sensual living is bringing passion in whatever you do. It's being committed to excellence.”
― Lebo Grand

“She has very high standards." "Maybe. Or maybe she's-and I'm having trouble putting this in a nonjudgemental away-maybe she's got into the habit of criticising you and hasn't paid attention to how much that messes you up.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“I chose the sensual path because I knew I didn’t want to ordinary.”
― Lebo Grand

“To settle is to choose what is safe over what is highly necessary for your growth. Don't settle!”
― Lebo Grand

“Every tongue has low standards during starvation.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“high standards from long ago are part of the infinite now.. as a quest for perfection; along with the awareness that perfection is infinite with no final destination.....”
― Leland Lewis, Random Molecular Mirroring

“You should set high goals for yourself and believe that they are attainable.”
― Genereux Philip

“You are right, I am too good to be for real.
But I am even more awesome to be your reality”
― Henna Sohail

“Maybe I will always have to love the idea of love or a concept of God more than I can love a person.”
― Catherine Lacey, The Answers

“I chose the sensual path because I knew I didn’t want to live an ordinary life.”
― Lebo Grand

“We hold such high standards so we must know our worth when he doesn’t.”
― Laika Constantino

“You get to have completely different standards than you did your entire life. It’s never too late to start treating yourself with the respect you desire from others.”
― Ivana Skoric, She's Intense: A Guide to Self-Respect and Personal Autonomy

“If you even think for a second about giving him a second chance, ask yourself, “A second chance for what?” Suppose a guy cheats on you and asks you for a second chance. A second chance for what? A second chance to cheat again? A second chance to lie to you again? A second chance to disrespect you again? Because it turned out so well the first time?”
― Ivana Skoric, She's Intense: A Guide to Self-Respect and Personal Autonomy

“But would you rather lower your standards to make yourself more accessible, or keep your standards where they are and watch who wants you enough to meet them? If you can offer what’s on your list of standards to another person, then your standards aren’t unrealistic. After all, if they come easily to you, why wouldn’t you want the same in return?”
― Ivana Skoric, She's Intense: A Guide to Self-Respect and Personal Autonomy