Quotes About Achievement

The challenge itself is to exceed certain high standards you've set for yourself.

If I'm demanding and have high standards, I'm happy about that.

I mean regardless of what kind of success we have, this is one of the most gratifying things in the world - to work with your friends, and make good music, by our standards.

When you lose for the All Blacks it's not a nice feeling. Expectations on us are pretty high. We have high standards and we know if we've let ourselves or let the jersey down.

It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.

The people I admire most are those doing outstanding things for the poorest children, such as Michael Wilshaw at Mossbourne academy, Dan Moynihan and all those at the Harris academies, and those at chains such as Ark and the Haberdashers, who are driving up standards in the poorest areas.

You want to score runs at the highest average you can. That's what motivates you to keep driving the standards.

Arsenal's standards are very high so I've always tried to reach that.

The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence.

Ueli Steck, I'm absolutely certain, had a very strong inner drive to keep pushing. He set very high standards for himself.

I've been inconsistent by my standards, but I always set high goals for myself.

We should be proud of our country when we have done something to be proud of, when we have lived up to our own standards. But the flip side of genuine pride is being able to recognize when we have fallen short, and to hold ourselves to account.

I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.

There was a period in my life when I was trying to write standards: songs that everybody recorded. I did a pretty good run of it.

Now that I'm a XXL Freshman, you know, I feel like that sets high standards for me, and I feel like I have to deliver.

I would love to work on a film which would be close to Hollywood standards.

What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

In the beginning, I aspired just to make a comfortable living in acting. I still feel the same - it's just that my standards have gone up, so my comfort level is higher as well.

My expectation levels are probably higher than what's achievable. But I have to keep pushing the standards.

I set myself high standards, and when I drop below them, I'm not happy about it.

At a club like Everton, we've always set our standards high.

If you can keep getting better, we can set ourselves better standards every game.

My dad always had very high standards for me, from day one.