Quotes About Persistence

I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential.

Intensity is the price of excellence.

Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.

The hallmark of excellence, the test of greatness, is consistency.

Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

I believe excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.

Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America.

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

If you strive for excellence, success will follow

We don't settle for anything less than excellence.

Excellence has become a habit.

Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.

In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

Be satisfied with nothing but your best.

Ive zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal. It's a constant.

Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.

It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.

Once you understand what excellence is all about... you see how that excellence manifests itself in any discipline.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.