Vince Lombardi Quotes

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.

Forget about getting a bank balance and don't be satisfied with things being good enough. Accept only that which is good or the best.

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.

In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well

Good is the enemy of great.

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

Good enough never is.

My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

'Good enough is good enough' - that's never been acceptable for me.

Work on not becoming good but excellent.

Perfection is impossible, but you don't stop aiming for it.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.

Don't settle for mediocrity; never let good enough be good enough.

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

You’ll never achieve 100 percent if 99 percent is okay.

I always try and do everything I can to the best of my abilities, single aspect has to be perfect.

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

Never settle for anything less than your best.

It's always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There's never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and striving for that perfect performance is what keeps me going.

Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude

Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.

I'm quite amused by the attempt to excuse not trying harder, by claiming that perfect is not possible; it may not be, but striving toward it as an ideal is! It is in the act of 'striving' that we demonstrate character, courage, and conscience.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.