Tony Robbins Quotes

What happens when perfection isn't good enough?

The thing I'm not good with is mediocrity, when someone isn't really trying to reach something.

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

Demand excellence.

Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.

Do it right or don't do it at all. That comes from my mom. If there's something I want to do, I'm one of those people that won't be satisfied until I get it done. If I'm trying to sing something and I can't get it, I'm going to keep at it until I get where I want it.

If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.

Perfection is the often the enemy of greatness.

People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.

How do we appreciate the good without letting it be the enemy of the perfect? How do we keep a step in the right direction from becoming a stopping point? How do we get beyond shades of insipid light green?

If you're a perfectionist and you know you're about to do something at which you cannot be perfect, then that is daunting because you know what your heart is like and the way you approach your work.

Strive for perfection - never be content with mediocrity. You don't win until you conquer the little flaws. You don't beat these great ones until your form is perfect. This is true in all of life. A flaw in a product can ruin a business. A personal failing, a little one, can ruin a person's life. Don't be content with mediocrity - strive to live up to the greatest within you.

Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.

Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.

Perfection is often the enemy of greatness.

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

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.

There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

I don't think anybody's goal is to be mediocre. I think everybody should want to be the best. I've always felt that way. I want to be at the best at everything I do.

I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.

Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

I've always been really ambitious, whatever I do. At school, I always wanted to be the best in the class - no, it wasn't enough to be the best in the class, I'd want to be the best in the country.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.