Quotes About Growth

Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.

Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.

Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.

Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.

The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the rest, benefit for humanity.

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.

The rate at which organizations learn may soon become the only sustainable source of competitive advantage.

It's a great challenge to be better than your opportunities.

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

A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.

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

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

It's really fun to see young kids trying to find excellence in themselves.

Pursue excellence; ignore success.

Excellence nourishes the soul.

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

An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt.

I really believe that the single hardest thing in business is building a company that does repeatable innovation... and just has this ongoing culture of excellence as it grows.

If you're any good at all, you know you can be better.

Gravity keeps your body down from flying high. On the other hand, nothing can keep you down from outperforming yourself and from continually growing to become excellent.

Excellence doesn't mean we have to be 100% better in any one thing: it means we strive to be 1% better in 100 things.

Blossoming out through one's comfort zone should be well meaning so as to achieve newer levels of excellence