Seth Godin Quotes

I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.

You should always want more. If you get comfortable with what you have done, you can never go to that next level.

Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocracy

Let us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

I don't ever want to feel complacent.

I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.

Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

Don't ever let good enough be good enough.

Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.

I try to aim high and put myself in positions where I'm the least experienced person.

A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all: evidence that if he buckled down and worked hard, he might some day do something really worth doing.

If we remove desire to be better, we become mediocre.

It's always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There's never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and striving for that perfect performance is what keeps me going.

You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.

If you settle for what you've got, you deserve what you get.

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

I love to be challenged, and I'm never sitting comfortable in the mediocrity chair.

I just want to do something challenging.

For me, I like to push myself... I hate feeling complacent or that I'm not learning.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.

'Raining Diamonds' talks about knowing there's something better out there. You don't have to just settle.

My work is of me; it's not me. I want it to be far more extraordinary than I am.