High Standards Quotes

I’m a big believer in starting with high standards and raising them. We make progress only when we push ourselves to the highest level. If we don’t progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

I don't have expectations with people, but I have very high standards for myself. The only time I get disappointed in life is when I disappoint myself.

Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society.

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

We make no apologies for setting high standards.

Nobody owes anybody anything; it's up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.

People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

We have a high standard of living. ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe, income has merely doubled.

The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger of history is that we use it as an excuse and remain trapped in it. I cannot blame my history for anything, and therefore I have to have high standards for myself.

I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself.

If you are of the truth, if you have learned the truth, if you see the sanctity of the truth, then speak truth. We are not called to be deceivers or liars. God is a God of truth, and His people are called to have an enormously high standard of truth.

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

I have a lot of respect for the auto manufacturers. They make a product people live inside - and can die inside - so they are held to very high standards.

I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season.

You've got to set high standards for yourself.

Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?

Israel is a tremendous success story. When I arrived, there were 600,000 Jews living here. Today there are close to 6 million. We have one of the world's top high-tech industries and a high standard of living. There is only one thing we haven't achieved: Making the country safer for Jews.

God has set up a high standard of righteousness. He has made plain a distinction between human and divine wisdom. All who work on Christ's side must work to save, not to destroy.

There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because I felt like it wasn't up to my high standards. I would push and pull it on set, and make changes all the time. But then when you're working with an original screenplay, my theater instincts kick in, and I suddenly become very keeper-of-the-words.

I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.

I hold myself to a very high standard, and I hold my contributions to that same high standard. I will not accept any contributions that are illegal, inappropriate or tainted.

There are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance.