Quotes About Determination

If you don't seek perfection, you can never reach excellence.

If you strive for excellence, success will follow

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.

When you begin moving toward excellence, you will find very little competition. You're competing with only 20% of the population.

Excellence isn't achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You've got to have both.

Channel your emotion into the excellence of doing something rather than the mediocrity of deciding whether or not to do it.

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.

I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.

All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

Commitment is mental determination to accept only EXCELLENCE no matter how difficult, uncomfortable, or stressful.

I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.

Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!

You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.

Excellence is a choice, and you must make that choice over and over again until "doing your best" is all you know.

The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence.

Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won't catch it, but in the process we'll achieve excellence.