Michael Franti Quotes

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.

I may appear to be full of myself because I always want better.

Good is the enemy of great.

Strive for perfection. Nobody's going to be perfect on this earth. But strive for perfection.

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.

I won't do anything unless it's the absolute best.

We strivin' for perfection.

The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.

The way that I am now, I don't want to accept mediocrity. I don't want to accept the easy road.

Good enough never is.

The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.

I want things to be the best they can be. I want greatness.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.

We try so hard to be excellent and only want the best of the best but, instead of the greatest day ever, try to have a good one.

I don't play to be mediocre.

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.

Every man who can be a first-rate something -- as every man can be who is a man at all -- has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.

Never settle for second when first is available

m doing my best" "no,this isn't your best. We shall recognize your best when it appears

Good enough never is. Set your standards so high that even the flaws are considered excellent.

Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.

Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage?

Never settle for average.

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.