Personal Standards Quotes

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

My work ethics have been the same whether it's in international cricket, first class, or even club cricket.

I only want to put out the best for myself and my subscribers.

I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.

People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.

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

My character has always been important to me. That was the one thing that I knew, no matter what, I had to hold that strong.

When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the time, he would reach the highest measure of his expectation. . . . If that was the highest rating that one of the most distinguished men of the twentieth century could hope to obtain, what about you and me?

I'm probably my biggest critic. There's nothing anyone can ask of me that I haven't already asked of myself.

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.

If you know anything about me and my history, you know I'm very particular about my projects.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don't need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.

I never competed against athletes. I competed against perfection.

The only way I can meet expectations of myself and what I think I am capable of is to make sure my game is in order and I am doing things that allow me to perform at my best, to make sure my training is good, to make sure I am focused on watching the ball and not worried about the external expectations.

When something is not great, I'm not going to eat it. It's not enough to just get full. It's like, how does this make you feel?

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

Personally, I take it really seriously and it bothers me when I don't play well.

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

At the end of the day, I don't release any records that I'm not proud to put my name on. I never got to that point.

It was weird, I saw the Brian Stann vs. Wanderlei fight, I thought, if I don't have another of those in me, there's no point in continuing. I never really cared about winning or losing, then don't put the product out there at all if it's going to be subpar.

Pressure is there with any release of mine. It's more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.

Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Judgment comes from you comparing yourself to other people, and expectations of what you think life should be.