Quotes About Persistence

All excellence is equally difficult.

Lasting achievement, whatever the endeavor, comes from a commitment to excellence every step of the way.

Tall peaks are not always better than long plateaus as true greatness must include protracted excellence.

All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

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

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.

Average is the enemy of excellence, and average commitment will prevent you from enduring to the end.

Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.

As you all know, I'm kind of a perfectionist.

There is no excellency without difficulty.

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.

The habit of excellence can become enjoyably addictive.

Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.

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

I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length.

It is said that it takes 10,000 hours to develop mastery and excellence. How many hours have you clocked today on your passion?

Just keep taking the next step and keep having excellence in the ordinary.

Trying to compromise EXCELLENCE, is like trying to let a little bit of air out of a balloon with a hat pin.

Pursue excellence; ignore success.

If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?

I always tell the kids that excellence is like pregnancy. You can't be a little bit pregnant. You either are or you're not.

You gotta become. Not do things in excellence. You gotta become excellent.

I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.