The phrase "a personal standard" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an individual's own criteria or expectations for behavior, performance, or quality.
Example: "She sets a personal standard for herself that drives her to excel in her work."
Alternatives: "individual benchmark" or "personal criterion".
In writing about football's history for many years, I have been careful not to judge it by a personal standard.
He may also compare his position relative to others against a personal standard and feel a sense of loss.
The love interest is Anna Antonicheva's pliant Phrygia, and in a series of anguished duets Acosta alternately carries her across his shoulders like the bar of a crucifix, and press-lifts her high above his head - a personal standard of virtue raised against the imperial eagles of Rome.
As a faculty member of Columbia's English Department, Mark Van Doren adhered to a personal standard that is now the award's requirement "humanity, devotion to truth and inspiring leadership". Congratulations to Mark Mazower, Ira D. Wallach Professor of World Order Studies and the winner of the 34th Annual Lionel Trilling Book Award for his book Hitler's Empire: how the Nazis Ruled Europe (2008).
The scanned images were refined on a personal standard desktop computer using the 3dMDpatient software (3dMD Inc., Atlanta, GA).
"He had a personal standard based on work he and those he admired had done," says Heller.
Bill Levin set a high personal standard for community service and made it part of the Bank's business philosophy.
I had made the mistake of holding Carlsen to a higher personal standard because he is famous and good at chess.
Even if brokers were required to be fiduciaries at the current standard, there is a difference between following a legal fiduciary standard and upholding a personal stewardship standard.
University students (N = 100; M age = 20.6 years; SD = 2.24) were randomly assigned to one of three experimental conditions, that is, a high Personal Standards condition, a condition combining Personal Standards perfectionism and Evaluative Concerns perfectionism, and a non-perfectionist condition.
