Mary E. Pearson Quotes

The day you think you have reached your fullest potential is the day that you havn't.

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

Perfect is unattainable. Better is possible.

If you felt like you've done the best thing you could possibly ever do, it's probably time to hang up your spurs because there's not much else to do.

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right

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.

I'm not maximized yet.

The day you are content, you will stop growing.

Your game stalls when you assume you're the finished product.

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

You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.

But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best.

You were created to excel. There’s no limit to how high you can go in life. Keep stretching to the next level.

I think success has a lot to do with my own personal growth.

If you think you're perfect already, then you never will be.

Whatever you are made of, be the best of that.

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.

progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.

No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.

Most people achieve their goals and are like, "Is this all there is?" We are supposed to keep growing so we have something to get. What we get never makes us happy. You play yourself when you forget that.

Our only purpose in life is growth.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.

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

There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.