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Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.
Sep 17, 2025
And with a few moments like that, with doubt from here and there, and within ourselves we were just striving for excellence. We had somehow understood and felt that all the musicians who would come to the House later on, that all the singers, the big artists, were striving for excellence in their life and we thought a house for them, there’s no limit to the excellence it should have because it should match their strive for perfection
Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.
It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.
Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.
Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Our practices - our most spiritual practices - are hanging laundry on the line, raising children, building strong relationships, practicing kindness as much as we can, striving for excellence in the workplace, and developing deeper self-knowledge. I wrote The Four Purposes of Life to assist in these endeavors.
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.
To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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.
I believe in striving for excellence. I sweat the big and small stuff! I do not apologize for this.
Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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.
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.
Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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.
Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
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.
Strive for excellence, not perfection.
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