Gavin DeGraw Quotes

I don't think I'm successful.

I always have high expectations for me.

I would just say that I have high expecations for myself.

I just have to be better. There's not much else to say.

That's the type of person I am - I always want to do better.

You want to put on a good performance for yourself.

You always have to keep setting the bar for yourself.

I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

I like to challenge myself.

Resolutions are a wonderful thing if we can keep them, but many resolutions go by the wayside because we have not done anything different with our mindset.

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.

If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not.

Never allow yourself to dwell upon your weaknesses, deficiencies, or failures. Holding firmly the ideal and struggling vigorously to attain it will help you to realize it.

I have always... expected a lot from myself.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

I set pretty high expectations for myself, and I hold myself to a pretty high standard.

Life is always full of challenges. I believe you're never happy unless you're consistently making challenges for yourself.

I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.

I do expect a lot from myself, but it's also a balance of being... positive and also pushing yourself.

It starts with myself. I have to believe in myself and set expectations for myself, set goals for myself, and continue to work for those goals every day.

I think that if you challenge yourself, then you're going to get your best performances, and every time I go out there, I challenge myself to be better than I was last time.

I didn't really know what I was going to do with my life. I've taken every opportunity, pushed myself in ways I'm not sure I knew were even possible, I've made the best of my life and career. So yes, I do feel proud of myself.

I set my own goals higher than what anybody else has set for me.

I find little things that drive me sometimes, but again, I'm already a driven person, and just because I strive for perfection on a personal level and don't really care what other people say or do. I just want to be the best I can be, so that drives me enough.

I have a lot to say about my confidence, my fears, my adversaries, my ambitions, my goals and failures.