Azzedine Alaia Quotes

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

When you are through trying to improve, you are through.

It is our duty to try to be perfect, … to improve each day, and look upon our course last week and do things better this week; do things better today than we did them yesterday

Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.

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

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving.

I'm not even born yet. I'm still trying. I'm still pushing. I don't ever want to get to a place where I feel satisfied.

While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.

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.

The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

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

The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.

You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.

We’re all works in progress, honey. And believe me when I tell you that I’ve had to work harder than most.

Never, ever get satisfied; keep the carrot in front of the horse.

You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay.

Perfect is unattainable. Better is possible.

You can do a lot in a lifetime, if you don't burn out too fast/You can make the most of the distance/First you need endurance/First you've got to last.

Success requires both urgency and patience. Be urgent about making the effort, and patient about seeing the results.

Nothing of great value in this life comes easily.

Every inch of progress is won in struggle.

Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.

For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.