Orison Swett Marden Quotes About Excellence

Quotes about: Excellence

• Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Hands, Mind, Excellence

• Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Men, Excellence, Common

  Orison Swett Marden (1896). “Pushing to the Front: Or Success Under Difficulties, a Book of Inspiration and Encouragement to All who are Struggling for Self-elevation Along the Paths of Knowledge and of Duty”

• Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Effort, Excellence, Tasks

• There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a little better than anybody else can do it, you need no bond or trade-mark to protect the product of your brains.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Excellence, Littles, Can Do

  "Exceptional Employee".

• People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Hands, Class, People

  Orison Swett Marden (2007). “Do It to a Finish!”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.

• There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Trust, Hands, Excellence

• The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Responsibility

  Orison Swett Marden (2006). “Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate”, p.43, Cosimo, Inc.

• It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

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  Motivational, Nature, Excellence

  Orison Swett Marden (2007). “Do It to a Finish!”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

• Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Hands, Giving, Excellence

  Orison Swett Marden (2013). “The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

• Doing common things uncommonly well.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Excellence, Common, Wells

• It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Artist, Men, Average

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success”, p.389, e-artnow

• There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Differences, Excellence, Mediocrity

  Orison Swett Marden (1997). “Exceptional Employee”, p.125

• Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and expands, but if we allow our standards to drop, there is a natural progression that follows, a tendency for a downward effort in all that we do thereafter.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Effort, Excellence, Progression

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