Mitch Hedberg Quotes

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

You don't impress the officials at NASA with a paper airplane. You don't boast about your crayon sketches in the presence of Picasso. You don't claim equality with Einstein because you can write 'H20.' And you don't boast about your goodness in the presence of the Perfect.

Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.

In the vast majority of businesses, there is simply no such thing as “the best.”

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.

Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.

Father made the most popular cars in the world; I want to make the best.

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

Showing off is what you do when your are simply better than everybody else.

Better to have a single perfect diamond than a sack of flawed stones.

When thou are not pleased, beloved, Then my heart is sad and darkened, As the shining river darkens When the clouds drop shadows on it! When thou smilest, my beloved, Then my troubled heart is brightened, As in sunshine gleam the ripples That the cold wind makes in rivers.

The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.

I’m tighter than face lifts and flyer than spaceships.

There are always people who will be better at some thing than you are.

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

My week beats your year.

We must always go for the best. Do not compromise on quality. Reject if it is not the best - not only the best in India, but globally.

Style is doing things not in any way but in the best way.

Good is good, but better carrieth it.

Why be second best at anything?

Strictly excel in what is excellence with grace

Be the best at what you do