89 High Standards Quotes

High standards imply the presence of fresh, original ideas, which are inspirational.

It drives people with high expectations to finish jobs and projects so they can feel that their lives are progressing.

High Standards Quotes For Your Career

Here is a list of high-standard quotes on excellence, leadership, and performance.

“You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to them."

-Michael Jordan.

"We only get what we believe that we deserve. Raise the bar, raise your standards and you will receive a better outcome."

-Joel Brown.

"We can't win the struggle for high standards if we just talk a good game . . we've got to play a good game."

-Price Pritchett.

"Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming."

–Richard Branson.

"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."

-Colin R. Davis.

"Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point."

-Bill Gates.

"There's only one growth strategy: work hard."

-William Hague.

"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs."

–Farrah Gray.

"Dream big and dare to fail."

–Norman Vaughan.

"You can’t use up creativity.  The more you use, the more you have."

–Maya Angelou.

"Set high standards and few limitations for yourself."

-Anthony J. D'Angelo.

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."

–Vincent van Gogh.

"There are no traffic jams along the extra mile."

–Roger Staubach.

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."

–Leonardo da Vinci.

"I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."

–Benjamin Franklin.

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

–Les Brown.

"Limitations live only in our minds.  But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

–Jamie Paolinetti.

"We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."

–Marie Curie.

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

–Wayne Gretzky.

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."

–Stephen Covey.

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity."

–Amelia Earhart.

"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing.  That’s why we recommend it daily."

–Zig Ziglar.

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear."

–George Addair.

"The more efficient causes of progress seem to consist of a good education during youth whilst the brain is impressible, and of a high standard of excellence, inculcated by the ablest and best men, embodied in the laws, customs and traditions of the nation, and enforced by public opinion."

-Charles Darwin.

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there."

–Theodore Roosevelt.

"Fall seven times and stand up eight."

–Japanese Proverb.

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."

–Helen Keller.

"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars."

–Latin Proverb.

"Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart."

– Ancient Indian Proverb.

"Good parts just don't fall off trees. I try to be very careful about what sort of projects I attack. There's an audience out there that expects high standards from me."

-David Jason.

"There are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance."

-John Wooden.

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

–Beverly Sills.

"Results are a consequence of doing things well and having high standards, improving the detail of how we play."

-Gareth Southgate.

High Standards Quotes About Life

Here is a list of high-standard quotes on life and performance that you must read:

"Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it."

–Charles Swindoll.

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

–Joshua J. Marine.

"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the do something else."

-Tom Peters.

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you have imagined."

–Henry David Thoreau.

"When you set standards and stick to them, there will be people in your life who will fall away. Let them."

-Steave Maraboli.

"It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live."

–Mae Jemison.

"Live and let live."

-Yiddish Proverb.

"Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline."

-William Hague.

"A light heart lives long."

-William Shakespeare.

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

–Martin Luther King Jr.

"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough."

–Oprah Winfrey.

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

–George Eliot.

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see it."

–Confucius.

"I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very ... I don't think it's just a term. I think it really exists. You can come to Savannah, and the people are so sweet and so nice."

-Paula Deen.

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me."

–Erma Bombeck.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

–Anais Nin.

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."

–Mark Twain.

"How do you know what is the right path to choose to get the result that you desire? The honest answer is this: You won't. And accepting that greatly eases the anxiety of your life experience."

-Jon Stewart.

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."

–Steve Jobs.

"Leaders don't define wealth by material things they see. They define wealth by the visions they imagine and actions they take."

-'Leaders' Ladder', Israelmore Ayivor.

"Let your actions prove that you're committed to living life on a new level. Get rid of the people and thoughts that confine you to an average existence. Raise your standards and aim for greatness."

-Tino Jalo.

"Life isn't about getting and having, it's about giving and being."

–Kevin Kruse.

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

–Socrates.

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

–Maya Angelou.

"Life is about making an impact, not making an income."

-Kevin Kruse.

"Happiness is not something readymade.  It comes from your own actions."

–Dalai Lama.

"Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans."

–John Lennon.

High Standards Quotes For Success

Here is a list of high-standard quotes that will motivate you to give a great performance.

"Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!"

-William Hague.

"You become what you believe."

–Oprah Winfrey.

"People generally didn’t cheat in a good relationship."

Emily Giffin.

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

–Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"Either you run the day, or the day runs you."

–Jim Rohn.

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

–Lao Tzu.

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

–Booker T. Washington.

"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."

-Henry Ford.

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."

–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

"You can't expect everyone to have the same dedication as you."

-'Diary of a Wimpy Kid', Jeff Kinney.

"If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten."

–Tony Robbins.

"No pressure, no diamonds."

–Thomas Carlyle.

"Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles."

-Steve Jobs.

"Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for."

-Jennifer Lopez.

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

–Florence Nightingale.

"Demand more from yourself on a daily basis to make your dreams a reality."

-ATGW.

"Patience is a key element of success."

-Bill Gates.

"The best revenge is massive success."

–Frank Sinatra.

"Whatever the mind of a person can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

–Napoleon Hill.

"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."

–Bill Cosby.

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

-John D. Rockefeller.

"Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance."

-Brian Tracy.

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

–Albert Einstein.

"If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed."

-'The Bell Jar', Sylvia Plath.

"The brain can be assumed to be the hardware and the life-atom or soul or aatman is the operating system and all belief systems are software which needs regular updates."

-Anand Damani.

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

–Babe Ruth.

"What’s money? A person is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

–Bob Dylan.

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

–Woody Allen.

"A great men are always willing to be little."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson.