Joyce Meyer Quotes

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

I think every time you go to do something, it's a challenge. Somebody said to me, 'You've done it all. If you could do anything right now, what would you do?' I said, 'I'd do everything I did better.'

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

I'm still trying to improve. Everything I can do to improve every part of my game - I'm going to do it.

We're always wanting to get better. I'm very much a perfectionist.

What makes us fully human is the relentless quest for making things a little bit better.

Perfect is unattainable. Better is possible.

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

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

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.

I will never reach perfection.

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

What is perfect? Journey, a thing doesn't have to be perfect to be fine. That goes for a picture. That goes for life....Things can be good enough.

Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and expands, but if we allow our standards to drop, there is a natural progression that follows, a tendency for a downward effort in all that we do thereafter.

Really, who's the best at what they do? There's always room for improvement.

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

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.

I think I always just want to get better at whatever I'm doing... Always strive for excellence.

On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.

I'm not perfect, but I strive for it.

In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.

I'm not perfect, but I'd like to be perfect. I'm working on it.