I want to be great, and that's holding myself to my standards, not anybody else's.
I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.
Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.
Nobody should expect more of you than you expect of yourself.
I am my own worst critic and I am hell to pay so I just have to do everything to my utmost ability.
As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.
Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself
You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.
I have my own goals, standards and have my own pressure.
I can't raise the bar of others if I haven't raised the bar for myself.
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.
All I know is that it is important to stand up for ourselves, no matter how inconvenient the reality is.
The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence.
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
Standards are what you hold for yourself, too. If I don't hold those standards with friends, colleagues, and lovers, I can't hold them to their relationships.
Success and failure are largely self-defined in terms of personal standards. The higher the self-standards, the more likely will given attainments be viewed as failures, regardless of what others might think.
When people ask me what really changed my life, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded on myself.
Dysfunctions can occur in each of the self-regulatory subfunctions-in how personal experiences are self-monitored and cognitively processed, in the evaluative self-standards that are adopted, and in the evaluative self-reactions to one's own behavior.. Problems at any one of these points can create self-dissatisfactions and dejection. dysfunctions in all aspects of the self system are most apt to produce the most chronic self-disparagement and despondency
