Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

I always want to grow and top myself.

Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Keep challenging yourself to think better, do better, and be better.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

I think everyone is their harshest critic, but I strive for excellence as much as I can because I think it shows.

Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.

Good, Better, Best. Never let it rest. Until your Good is Better, and your Better is your Best.

It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance.

Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress.

Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.

I’m a big believer in starting with high standards and raising them. We make progress only when we push ourselves to the highest level. If we don’t progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.

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

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.

There is only one person with whom to compete and that is yourself. Keep aiming to surpass your own best performance and ever strive to reach higher levels.

Through discipline, and determination one can change anything and everything about him - his habits, his outlook on life

He who stops being better stops being good.

Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

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

You are only limited to what you push yourself to, you know? You can always get better.

Many people who excel are self-taught.

It's always interesting to challenge yourself to say, 'Is this the best you can do?'

I can always do better. I can always find a way to make more plays and be more effective.

I am working hard to keep making progress, to always improve.