Quotes About Striving For Excellence

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

Harriet B. Braiker

#2. But if you're striving for excellence - whether it's in playing the guitar or flying a jet - there's no such thing as over-preparation. It's your best chance of improving your odds. In

Chris Hadfield

#3. It is up to the leader to create a healthy environment where people are not afraid to fail. Mistakes should be seen as an integral part of the organizational process. They are a normal part of striving for excellence.

Andrew Harvey

#4. We shouldn't be fearful of failure because is not a monster as we think it is. It's just a training ground for those who are really striving for excellence in life.

Euginia Herlihy

#5. And the next time I did school stuff in the middle of the night, I just did it in my closet with the door locked. Honestly, what is wrong with this country when striving for excellence means you need antidepressants?

Rachel Hawkins

#6. Arete is simply excellence and the striving for excellence in all things," said Odysseus. "Arete simply means the act of offering all actions as a sort of sacrament to excellence, of devoting one's life to finding excellence, identifying it when it offers itself, and achieving it in your own life.

Dan Simmons

#7. We are growing day by day as we are continuously striving for excellence in life.

Euginia Herlihy

#8. 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

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

Melody Beattie

#10. You know, I think it's so ironic that we're calling hard work, striving for excellence, don't blame others, you know, don't give up, that we're calling these, quote, 'Chinese values,' 'cause I always thought of them as American values.

Amy Chua

#11. Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and expands, but if we allow our standards to drop, there is a natural progression that follows, a tendency for a downward effort in all that we do thereafter.

Orison Swett Marden

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

Douglas Merrill

#13. Most people are too busy working on insignificant projects and pursuing life's frivolities to tap their creative abilities. It's a mistake to be one of them. Striving for excellence where excellence doesn't matter is the stuff misfits are made of.

Ernie J Zelinski

#14. I believe in striving for excellence. I sweat the big and small stuff! I do not apologize for this.

Anthony S. Fauci

#15. 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

#16. It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.

Brad Henry

#17. You don't need to obsess over details if you're willing to roll the dice and accept whatever happens. But if you're striving for excellence - whether it's in playing the guitar or flying a jet - there's no such thing as over-preparation.

Chris Hadfield

#18. Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves.

Carl Jung

#19. In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.

Adam Smith

#20. Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#21. Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Pat Riley

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

Vince Lombardi

#23. Find what you're good at. whatever it is, and become excellent at it. Excellence isn't magic - it's habit, the by product of doing something over and over and striving to be the best at it. Simply figure out what your passion is, and resolve to make excellence your habit.

Lauren Rowe

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

Laurence Olivier

#25. The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

John W. Gardner

#26. So our definition of manliness, like that of the ancients, is simple: striving for virtue, honor, and excellence in all areas of your life, fulfilling your potential as a man, and being the absolute best brother, friend, husband, father and citizen you can be.

Brett McKay

#27. The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving (to the contrary), the low place which all men dislike.

Lao-Tzu

#28. Make success happen by striving and working to be the best. Aim at excellence and hit the target.

Mark LaMoure

#29. There will always be some who see excellence and envy it instead of striving to emulate it.

Jo Walton

#30. Going far beyond that call of duty, doing more than others expect, this is what excellence is all about! And it comes from striving, maintaining the highest standards, looking after the smallest detail, and going the extra mile. Excellence means doing your very best. In everything! In every way.

Jack Johnson

#31. You are what you do repeatedly every day. If excellence is something you're striving for, then it's not an accident. It's a habit.

Greg Plitt