278 Quotes About Standards

Just because she has high standards, doesn't mean she’s high maintenance. Don’t confuse the two.

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.

If you set a clear standard for yourself; for how you wish to be treated — people take note.

You set the standard for how people will treat and regard you, by how you treat and regard yourself.

Evolving and bettering yourself is wonderful, but not if the set of standards and values you adopt smothers you into oblivion in the process.

You cannot ask someone to like you or love you more than you like or love yourself. YOU have to set the standard.

Nowadays the standards had plummeted so far that I failed even at being a failure. I silently packed up. Nothing else was left. They had even robbed me of self-pity

There is nothing better for your family than for you to be at your best, for you to be at your own peace, for you to be showing them in every way who you are, and what you stand for.

We must be the ones to re-define the world class standards of excellence