“You know, it’s O.K. to head out for wonderful, but on your way to wonderful, you’re going to have to pass through all right, and when you get to all right, take a good look around and get used to it because that may be as far as you’re going to get
Bill Withers, R&B singer and philosopher
Perhaps a more complicated rendering of "best is the enemy of better", but a more elegant statement, to be sure.