Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

In art the best is good enough.

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

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.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

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

I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.

To me, the only sin is mediocrity.

Luxury is not about the things that you own. It is about something that reflects your personal values, something that shows the choices that you have made in your life.

I want to be great, not good.

I want to be great. I want to be the best.

Strictly excel in what is excellence with grace

Be the best at what you do

To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.

You create a blueprint of your best performance, and you're happiest the night you surpass that blueprint. That won't happen that often, but it will happen. It's like sculpting: you keep refining. When you have a piece that is yours, that is just you, that becomes obsessive; you think about it all the time.

If you go to a second-rate place, and you are first-rate, it is very difficult to do first-rate work because you do not get that critical feedback you need for first-rate work on a daily basis.

Good is the enemy of great.

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

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

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.