Pursuit of Greatness Quotes

I think the biggest influence for me is when I hear a great piece of music, whatever the style, I'm kind of inspired by that greatness and I'm inspired to try and obtain something that comes close to that greatness.

Perfection is often the enemy of greatness.

The goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly.

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.

Excellence is the name of the game.

Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.

I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.

People talking about making America great again? America's never been great. The greatness of America is in its pursuit of greatness.

I will achieve in my life - Heaven grant that it be not long - some gigantic amalgamation between the two discrepancies so hideously apparent to me. Out of my suffering I will do it. I will knock. I will enter.

Excellence is THE trend of the '80s. Walk into any shopping mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers such as Garfield Gets Spayed, and you'll see a half-dozen books telling you how to be excellent: In Search of Excellence, Finding Excellence, Grasping Hold of Excellence, Where to Hide Your Excellence at Night So the Cleaning Personnel Don't Steal It, etc.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

I've never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best

Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.

A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no.134

I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.

Anybody can say they want to be the greatest ever. I take pride in it. If you're around me long enough and watch me work, that's what I'm striving for. I won't stop until I am.

You want to be the best at your position. And if people think of me as one of the best ever, that's the ultimate compliment.

The vague torment of ... ambition.

What is our praise or pride but to imagine excellence and try to make it? What does it say over the door of heaven; but, homo (sapiens) fecit?

Once you have found out what you love to do, there is only one goal: to be the best in the world at it.

You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does

Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.

You're not gonna be known as nothing if you don't win.