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Excellence Quotes by Orison Swett Marden

12 Excellence quotes by Orison Swett Marden

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Orison Swett Marden’s timeless take on excellence offers a compact collection of 12 reflections. His words balance classic wisdom with a forward‑looking mindset, making this a solid starter for anyone eager to cultivate a habit of outstanding effort.

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

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

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

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

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Superiority - doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

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

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There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a…

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Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and…

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It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it,…

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Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going…

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It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan.…

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People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been…

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Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

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Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.

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“The universe is one great kindergarten. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the…

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If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.

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The moment man cuts himself off from living connection with the human race and its needs, he begins to die from poor circulation.

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

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Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons.

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