Jean Giraudoux Quotes

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.

Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.

Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could have been.

...in my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to the best of your ability.

Strive for perfection - never be content with mediocrity. You don't win until you conquer the little flaws. You don't beat these great ones until your form is perfect. This is true in all of life. A flaw in a product can ruin a business. A personal failing, a little one, can ruin a person's life. Don't be content with mediocrity - strive to live up to the greatest within you.

You win a race, the next race it's a question mark. Are you still the best or not? That's what is funny. But that's what is interesting. And that's what is challenging. You have to prove yourself every time.

Really, who's the best at what they do? There's always room for improvement.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

I'm going to go out and be the best quarterback I can be and get the most out of my potential.

My goal has always been to try to live up to every ounce of my potential. For me, that means working with the best people and working with the best material.

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do.

Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

Good is often the enemy of best.

Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.

You give a good leader very little and he will succeed; you give mediocrity a great deal and he will fail.

To give the best I can, sometimes you will be brilliant or not.

Everyone used to say I'm a rising star, and I've got raw talent, but I really wanted to be, honestly, the best.

I'm a believer that you're as good as your best game because that's the level that you can get to.

I don't think anybody wants to be mediocre.

I always try and be perfect in practice.

I'm not just trying to be a good game manager. I'm trying to be great.