Quotes About Progress

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.

Excellence does not require perfection.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

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

Quality doesn't mean we have to be 100 percent better in any one thing; it means we strive to be 1 percent better in 100 things.

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.

Excellence does not begin in Washington.

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

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

Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.

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

Excellence in anything increases your potential in everything.

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

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

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.

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

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

We don't have to do it any better than we can - ever. Do our best for the moment, then let it go. If we have to redo it, we can do our best in another moment, later.

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.