Raising The Bar Quotes

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  Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

  Mia Hamm

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

  Mia Hamm, Aaron Heifetz (2013). “Go For The Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

  Orrin Woodward

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Twitter post from Mar 18, 2016

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• Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.

  Dick Costolo

  Bars, Measurement, Standards

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• If you don't raise the bar, how will you ever know your potential?

  L. Tom Perry

  Bars, Raises, Knows

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

  Joel Brown

  Believe, Bars, Outcomes

  Twitter post from Mar 10, 2017

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• If you're unwilling to leave someplace you've outgrown, you will never reach your full potential. To be the best, you have to constantly be challenging yourself, raising the bar, pushing the limits of what you can do. Don't stand still, leap forward.

  Ronda Rousey

  Challenges, Full Potential, Bars

  Ronda Rousey, Maria Burns Ortiz (2015). “My Fight / Your Fight”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.

  Seth Godin

  Believe, Thinking, Games

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.135, Penguin

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• You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless.

  Seth Godin

  Waiting, Bars, Mediocrity

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• I can't raise the bar of others if I haven't raised the bar for myself.

  John C. Maxwell

  Bars, Raises, Raised

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• You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'

  Tim Walker

  Giving, Challenges, Bars

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  If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

  John Quincy Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

  Bruce Jenner

  Bars

  Bruce Jenner, Mark Seal (1999). “Finding the Champion Within: A Step-by-Step Plan for Reaching Your Full Potential”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• The quality of an idea does not depend on its altitude in the organization...An idea can be from any source. So we will search the globe for ideas. We will share what we know with others to get what they know. We have a constant quest to raise the bar, and we get there by constantly talking to others.

  Jack Welch

  Talking, Organization, Ideas

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• If you raise the bar and offer your best to others then you deserve the same or better. Sometimes you have to divorce people who add no value to your life because they have nothing to offer but drama.

  Bindu

  Drama, Divorce, People

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• I'm always inspired by people who raise the bar, whether in their field of work, parenthood, or giving back.

  Candace Cameron

  People, Giving, Bars

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• Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Bars

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• Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, Helping Others, People

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• A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.

  Pat Summitt

  Sports, Team, Goal

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.154, Crown Business

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• I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

  Darren Criss

  Ambitious, Bars, Raises

  "A Road to Success, Lined With Friends". www.nytimes.com. January 11, 2012.

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• Give yourself another chance to make your dream a reality. Don't allow a delay to become a denial. Raise the bar on yourself, increase your determination, and explode your drive. You will fail your way to success. Everything you experience can be used to grow through...not just to go through. Make your dream happen! You deserve!

  Les Brown

  Dream, Determination, Reality

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• Your peer group are people with similar dreams, goals and worldviews. They are people who will push you in exchange for being pushed, who will raise the bar and tell you the truth. They're not in your business, but they're in your shoes. Finding a peer group and working with them, intentionally and on a regular schedule, might be the single biggest boost your career can experience.

  Seth Godin

  Dream, Careers, Shoes

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  Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

  Sam Walton

  Motivational, Leadership, Educational

  Attributed in "The 101 Greatest Business Principles of All Time" by Leslie Pockell, November 23, 2004.

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• Set your business plan to win; raise the bar or you're not going to be prepared. You need to think that what you're doing will make you $100 million.

  Swizz Beatz

  Winning, Thinking, Needs

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• There's weight on me to raise the bar, to carry on that legacy. But that's what drives me. Making sure that no one ever forgets who the Wallendas are.

  Nik Wallenda

  Legacy, Bars, Weight

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• The weird set an example for the rest of us. They raise the bar. They show us through their actions that in fact we're wired to do the new, not to comply with someone a thousand miles away.

  Seth Godin

  Example, Bars, Facts

  Seth Godin (2015). “We Are All Weird: The Rise of Tribes and the End of Normal”, p.49, Penguin

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