Georges St-Pierre Quotes

The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

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

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

Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.

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

Whatever happens, there are always things you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have scored a third. That's perfectionism. That's what makes you progress in life.

You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. You must tell yourself that it is not wrong to want it all.

True success is one of the greatest needs. Success is not something you stumble onto or come to by accident. It is something you must sincerely prepare for. Take a good look at successes, and you'll see he same consistent qualities all the time - qualities of one's character that make one strive for a goal with a standard of unmatched excellence.

The race for excellence has no finish line.

I want to reach absolute perfection. And I think I can reach it.

You have got to want to be the best before you can even begin to reach for that goal, and you have got to be prepared to sacrifice a lot to get there.

Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.

Set your goal and keep moving forward.

My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.

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.

We strivin' for perfection.

All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.

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

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

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

Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.

We shall strive for perfection. We shall not achieve it immediately--but we still shall strive. We may make mistakes--but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.

I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.