Steve Harvey Quotes

I respect myself. I have very high expectations for myself.

I have got lots of confidence in my own ability and I know I have got to keep up my standards.

I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.

I have high standards I hold myself to, besides Christianity.

I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.

I want to be great, and that's holding myself to my standards, not anybody else's.

We're constantly rationalizing where we stand and our own code and dealing with, you know, how you can be the best version of yourself.

I needed to get to know myself, discover where my limits were, not constantly push myself too much.

I have a lot of expectations on myself. That's important.

I know what I think of myself and the standard I hold myself to.

I hold myself to a high standard.

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

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.

So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you need to go.

As a player all you can do is play within yourself, even in the context of a team sport.

Set higher standards for you own performance than anyone around you, and it won't matter whether you have a tough boss or an easy one. It won't matter whether the competition is pushing you hard, because you'll be competing with yourself.

What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.

We don't drift into good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.

Before comparing yourself with others, win the battle with yourself. Strive to be better today than yesterday, and better tomorrow than today.

Get up, you useless lump, get up!

Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development.

I believe that for the most part, achieving success - whatever that is for you - is mostly a matter of personal choice and that, initially, making the right choices can be difficult.

The principle is competing against yourself.

My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing.

As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.