Jascha Heifetz Quotes

Good is not good, where better is expected

The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.

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

I am trying to pursue excellence.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

Don't settle for mediocrity; never let good enough be good enough.

Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

The good is the enemy of the best.

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

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.

Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

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

Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.

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

When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity.

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

Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?

I never want to stop, and I want to try to be even better.

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

I am the type where I don't worry about anything else but how to top what I did yesterday. My main goal is to top what I did before.

We're never satisfied with where we are as players.

Every time I reach a new peak, I see a new one I want to climb.

Every man who can be a first-rate something -- as every man can be who is a man at all -- has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.

Perfection is the often the enemy of greatness.

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.