Excellence Not Perfection Quotes

#1. Demand perfection of yourself and you'll seldom attain it. Fear of making a mistake is the biggest single cause of making one. Relax - pursue excellence, not perfection.

Lloyd Winter

#2. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect.
The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.

Alan Kulwicki

#3. Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

Joyce Meyer

#4. No task is too small to not chase perfection and excellence!

Carlo Jose San Juan

#5. Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.

Brian Tracy

#6. Excellence does not require perfection.

Henry James

#7. I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers. She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence so much as integrity.

Edward R. Murrow

#8. The difference between perfection and excellence is one can actually be achieved.

Rodo Sofranac

#9. Perfection is not attainable," he used to say, quoting Vince Lombardi. "But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.

Kathryn Perez

#10. Do not confuse excellence with perfection. The first is possible to achieve, the second is probably not.

Neale Donald Walsch

#11. Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.

Laurence Olivier

#12. Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.

Melody Beattie

#13. I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

Edsger Dijkstra

#14. There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.

Vince Lombardi

#15. Striving for perfection is neurotic; striving for excellence is progress. Excellence is continuous improvement. There is nothing that cannot be done better or improved the next time.

Shiv Khera

#16. Always remember ... Perfection is not attainable, but if you chase perfection you can catch excellence and beyond. Be fearless ...

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#17. Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

Rumi

#18. Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.

Don Shula

#19. I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential.

J.R.D. Tata

#20. Success depends on our choice of deployment (in terms of both quantity and/ or Quality) of the 86400 spells (Hindi- Pal) available each day for reflection, correction, and improvement,towards the journey for perfection.

Priyavrat Thareja

#21. Never settle for anything less than your best.

Brian Tracy

#22. Strive for excellence, rather than perfection, and the audience may so enjoy your beautiful, expressive tone that they will readily forgive a few stray notes.

Ruth Bonetti

#23. Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

Andy Hargreaves

#24. Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won't catch it, but in the process we'll achieve excellence.

Vince Lombardi

#25. Don't let the fact you haven't done something before convince you that you can't do it, or that it cannot be done perfectly the first time you try your hand at it.

A.J. Darkholme

#26. When you come up a bit short on excellence, you still win. When you strive for perfect, you're just never quite good enough.

Dawn Gluskin

#27. Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

Jerry Moran

#28. He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations.

Jean De La Bruyere

#29. Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.

Douglas Merrill

#30. True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!

Vince Lombardi

#31. PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

#32. Always aim at perfection for only then will you achieve excellence

J.R.D. Tata

#33. Excellence is not a success but a persistent pursuit of perfection.

Debasish Mridha

#34. Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

Harriet B. Braiker

#35. Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most
we can hope for is excellence.

Carl Jung

#36. Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding; striving for perfection
in practically anything
is both neurotic and futile.

Ed Bliss

#37. The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.

Ed Bliss

#38. If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It has its drawbacks but being finicky is essential.

J.R.D. Tata

#39. A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don't really know what the final result will be before you have it.

May-Britt Moser

#40. Strive for perfection, excellence, and never give up.

Chris Mentillo

#41. Art is a journey of excellence not a goal of perfection.

Jacqueline Patricks

#42. I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Michael J. Fox

#43. Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.

Tom Peters

#44. Take advice from the ignorant as well as from the wise, since there is no single person who embodies perfection nor any craftsman who has reached the limits of excellence.

Ptahhotep

#45. In her book The Reluctant Entertainer, Sandy Coughlin writes, "Excellence is working toward an attainable goal that benefits everyone, while perfection comes from a place of great need - usually the need to avoid criticism and gain praise and approval from others.

Myquillyn Smith

#46. If you don't seek perfection, you can never reach excellence.

Ken Blanchard

#47. People tell me I'm a perfectionist. They tell me I'm too extreme and that I work too hard. I tell them, that is all I know how to do. I was taught to give my best effort in everything I do and demand perfection and raise the standard of excellence to a whole new level.

Robert Cheeke

#48. He is the half part of a blessed man,
Left to be finished by such as she;
And she a fair divided excellence,
Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

William Shakespeare

#49. I don't expect perfection, I expect excellence. I expect 100 percent effort in all you do.

Steven D. Levitt

#50. An excellence mind pursues perfecting, not perfection.

Pearl Zhu

#51. Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.

Vince Lombardi

#52. Honey you are a woman of excellence. Excellence is not perfection it's progression

Patricia Hardy-Shaw

#53. Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.

Vince Lombardi