“The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept.”

“You cannot choose your battlefield,
God does that for you;
But you can plant a standard
Where a standard never flew.”

“You cannot choose your battlefield,
God does that for you;
But you can plant a standard
Where a standard never flew.”

“There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.”

“Your life is a reflection of standards you set for yourself. Raise your standards so will your quality of life.”

“If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviours and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.”

“There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?”

“Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.”

“Franklin: Have you ever thought, Headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
Headmaster: Of course they're out of date. Standards always are out of date. That is what makes them standards.”

“Holding people accountable for their past is O. K., but imposing a standard of purity, in which any compromise or misstep makes you the moral equivalent of the bad guys, isn’t. Abraham Lincoln didn’t meet that standard; neither did F. D. R. Nor, for that matter, has Bernie Sanders”