It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it.

Some steps need to be taken alone. It’s the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

When something or someone is no longer bringing you up, but pulling you down—it’s time to let go. When something or someone is no longer adding to your life, but subtracting from it—it’s time to let go.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love… but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

When you refuse to settle for less than the best, the best tends to track you down.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

—Andrew S. Tanenbaum

People have set moral standards for me my entire life, yet they have always left off the ones that they couldn't keep.

—Shannon L. Alder

Where humor is concerned there are no standards—no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

—John Kenneth Galbraith

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

—Ray Kroc