Colin Greenwood Quotes

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

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

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.

We do not do everything perfectly, but the intentions are there.

You can't ever reach perfection in this business, but that's one of the things I love. It's something that can't ever be mastered, but you can attempt to get as close as possible.

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

Ambition aspires to descend.

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

There's never been completion in my football career because I've always been striving for that next thing.

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

Without having a goal, it's difficult to score.

Ambition never comes to an end.

I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.

At the end of the day, everything you chase will run.

Chasing greatness - it's what I'm about.

I am trying to pursue excellence.

You always put some goal in your mind and you try to reach it. If you don't reach it, that's fine because you at least had something to look forward to.

You'll never really reach perfection, but the strive for it, I love it.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.