73 Quotes On Perfection and Excellence.

“Perfection simply doesn’t exist”, “It is a slow death” – You’ve heard this before, haven’t you? But you’re not going to listen to them, are you? If you’re not among those who compromise and settle for less than perfection, then the following inspiring quotes on “Perfection” and “Excellence” should motivate you to do even better.

I haven’t listed any of those quotes that are against perfection as I believe that you’re here for inspiration and not for distraction.

I’m Not Perfect. Nobody Is Perfect.

Could be. But once again, you don’t want to listen, right?

When I started my search for this post, I came across ample “nobody is perfect” quotes or ones which indicate “I am not perfect” but that’s not what I wanted to share. I agree that those quotes make sense but then they don’t motivate you.

[quote]They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds. ~ Winston Churchill[/quote]

Just like the above quote which emphasizes that running after perfection may not be a great idea. But let’s not get disoriented and focus on Excellence and Perfection quotes that will motivate us to move forward in life.

First Things First. Let’s Start With Excellence…

1. Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny. ~ Aristotle
2. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ~ Aristotle
3. We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way. ~ Aristotle
4. No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. ~ Aristotle
5. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ~ Aristotle
6. All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. ~ Aristotle
7. Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. ~ Aristotle
8. I’m never pleased with anything, I’m a perfectionist, it’s part of who I am. ~ Michael Jackson
9. My mother’s wonderful. To me she’s perfection. ~ Michael Jackson
10. Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly. ~ Plato
11. Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. ~ Vince Lombardi
12. I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted. ~ Dennis Quaid
13. If I only had a little humility, I’d be perfect. ~ Ted Turner
14. The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. ~ Confucius
15. The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying. ~ David Ogilvy
16. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. ~ Joseph Addison
17. I’m chasing perfection. ~ Kobe Bryant
18. If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your life. ~ Unknown
19. Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected. ~ Steve Jobs
20. We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. ~ Steve Jobs
21. But I think Steve’s main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He’s a perfectionist. Good enough isn’t good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great. ~ Andy Hertzfeld (about Steve Jobs)
22. Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better. ~ Edwin Louis Cole
23. Perfection is not just about control. It’s also about letting go. Surprise yourself so you can surprise the audience. ~ Thomas Leroy (Black Swan)
24. The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. ~ Vince Lombardi
25. I’m a perfectionist. I’m pretty much insatiable. I feel there’s so many things I can improve on. ~ Serena Williams
26. Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~ Ralph Marston
27. Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley
28. If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. ~ Colin Powell
29. By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. ~ Voltaire
30. Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
31. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. ~ Colin Powell
32. Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. ~ Pat Riley
33. Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ~ John W. Gardner
34. If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do. ~ George Bernard Shaw
35. Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach. ~ John W. Gardner
36. The perfection of art is to conceal art. ~ Quintilian
37. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
38. Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. ~ John W. Gardner
39. Anything worth doing, is worth doing right. ~ Hunter S. Thompson
40. Love is the bond of perfection. ~ John Winthrop
41. If everything is imperfect in this imperfect world, love is most perfect in its perfect imperfection. ~ Gunnar Björnstrand
42. We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent. ~ Barack Obama
43. I’m a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it’s good. ~ Luciano Pavarotti
44. True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. ~ Jason Jordan
45. Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value. ~ Albert Einstein
46. The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is. ~ Oscar Wilde
47. Everything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it. ~ Wayne Dyer
48. Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. ~ Max Beerbohm
49. Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life. ~ Louis Auchincloss
50. The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. ~ Pearl S. Buck
51. I’m a perfectionist. I can’t help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least. ~ Justin Timberlake
52. I am a man of simple tastes easily satisfied with the best. ~ Winston Churchill
53. They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds. ~ Winston Churchill
54. I’m a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it’s okay if there are flaws here and there. ~ Tyra Banks
55. Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change. ~ Tom Peters
56. Perfection is the child of time. ~ Joseph Hall
57. I’m a perfectionist, so I always feel there’s room for improvement. ~ Ludacris
58. Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. ~ Voltaire
59. Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it. ~ William Ellery Channing
60. Perfection cannot be defined or seen; it can only be found in your heart. ~ Kelly Millar
61. It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection. ~ Oscar Wilde
62. If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do. ~ William Pollard
63. This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. ~ Saint Augustine
64. Excellence always sells. ~ Earl Nightingale
65. Every line is the perfect length if you don’t measure it. ~ Marty Rubin
66. Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process. ~ Jerry Moran
67. Perfection is not a destination; it’s a never-ending process… Enjoy! ~ Jim Bouchard
68. Style is the perfection of a point of view. ~ Richard Eberhart
69. If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
70. Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane. ~ Criss Jami
71. I’m a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out. ~ Emma Watson
72. As you all know, I’m kind of a perfectionist. ~ Tiger Woods
73. Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. ~ Booker T. Washington

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106 Famous Inspirational Quotes for Entrepreneur

Inspirational Quotes & Motivational Quotes for Entrepreneurs

Are you an Entrepreneur? If so I’ve mined the Internet for Best Quotes on Entrepreneurship to inspire and motivate you. I’m sharing 106 of them which I liked the most. Please feel free to leave your valuable comments below and let me know what do you feel about the same!


Famous Quotes on Entrepreneurship

1.     I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison
2.     The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon
3.     Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson
4.     Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. – Jim Rohn
5.     An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it. – Roy Ash
6.     The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect. – Adam Osborne
7.     A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. – John C. Maxwell
8.     Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. - E. Joseph Cossman
9.     Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. – Albert Einstein
10.     You can’t ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new. – Steve Jobs
11.     Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. – Fortune Cookie
12.     Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. – Maya Angelou
13.     The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said. – Peter F. Drucker
14.     If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough. – Mario Andretti
15.     If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals. – Brian Tracy
16.     The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job. – Michael Gerber
17.     As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. – Donald Trump
18.     Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. – Thomas J. Watson
19.     The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom. – Silvio Berlusconi
20.     Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
21.     A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
22.     If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. – Napoleon Hill
23.     I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby
24.     In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby
25.     Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it. – W. Clement Stone
26.     Success is not in what you have, but who you are. – Bo Bennet
27.     Failure is not about insecurity. It’s about lack of execution. – Jeffrey Gitomer
28.     Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. – Henry Ford
29.     Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. –  Napoleon Hill
30.     Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be. – W. Clement Stone
31.     Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said. – Jim Rohn
32.     Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein
33.     The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Peter Drucker
34.     You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be. – Robert Collier
35.     A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. – John C. Maxwell
36.     For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. – Bo Bennett
37.     Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. – Natalie Clifford Barney
38.     Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
39.     I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. – Henry Ford
40.     You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. – Zig Ziglar
41.     Every choice you make has an end result. – Zig Ziglar
42.     Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. – Jim Rohn
43.     Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. – Mark Twain
44.     Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are asking, What’s in it for me? – Brian Tracy
45.     A goal is a dream with a deadline. – Napoleon Hill
46.     Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. – Peter Drucker
47.     Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it. – Napoleon Hill
48.     The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. – Ralph Nader
49.     Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. – Jim Rohn
50.     Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic. – Dale Carnegie
51.     All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. – Napoleon Hill
52.     Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. – Napoleon Hill
53.     The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. – Confucius
54.     One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – Andre Gide
55.     Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. - Jim Rohn
56.     If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got! – Alan Scott
57.     Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare. – Anon
58.     Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. – Dale Carnegie
59.     Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. – Benjamin Franklin
60.     If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal. – Zig Ziglar
61.     The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. – Jim Rohn
62.     An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
63.     There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way. – Christopher Morley
64.     The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney
65.     I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life.. it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. – Walt Disney
66.     Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. – W. Clement Stone
67.     Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. – Napoleon Hill
68.     Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process. – Jim Rohn
69.     Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates
70.     If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. – Jeff Bezos
71.     Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless. – Tim Blixseth
72.     I’ve always worked very, very hard, and the harder I worked, the luckier I got. - Alan Bond
73.     Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you. – Mark Cuban
74.     Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. – Thomas Carlyle
75.     You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it. – John Lennon
76.     Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. – Jim Rohn
77.     If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough. – Mario Andretti
78.     If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. – W. Clement Stone
79.     Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success – Henry Ford
80.     Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have – Zig Ziglar
81.     The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. – Colin R. Davis
82.     Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom. – General George Patton
83.     If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers. – Bo Bennett
84.     In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. – David Ogilvy
85.     Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. – Zig Ziglar
86.     In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world all rests on perseverance. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
87.     Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. – Cicero
88.     Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. – Napoleon Hill
89.     The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. – Benjamin Disraeli
90.     Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. – Marion C. Garretty
91.     I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. – Jack Welch
92.     You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality. – Les Brown
93.     I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. – Michael Jordan
94.     Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. – Jack Welch
95.     If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete. – Jack Welch
96.     As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for. – James Cash Penney
97.     Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves. – Zig Ziglar
98.     It is always the start that requires the greatest effort. – James Cash Penney
99.     If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. – Jim Rohn
100.     Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t. – Unknown
101.     You must fall in love with what you do, because being an entrepreneur is a lot of hard work, and overcoming a lot of adversity. From that love will come the dedication that will get you out of bed at 4 a.m. because of a great idea you just had and get you to work till 11 p.m. and not feel tired. – Unknown
102.     The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. – Albert Einstein
103.     Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer
104.     Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford
105.     What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill
106.     Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration. – Thomas Edison

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